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This forum address entitled Faith and the Public Square was given on October 25th of 2011 by Joseph Lieberman, then a senator for Connecticut.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, President Samuelson, for that introduction. Thank you all for that extremely warm welcome. It's just great to be here at this beautiful and storied Brigham Young campus. I must say, Mr. President, that in listening to your introduction, which was very generous,

I thought back a few years ago to an occasion in Washington, D.C., where the former Secretary of

State Henry Kissinger was the keynote speaker. And the chairman of the meeting got up at the moment

Kissinger was going to speak and said said Henry Kissinger really needs no introduction.

So I give you Dr. Henry Kissinger.

Kissinger got up and said in his inimitable voice,

It's probably true that I do not need an introduction.

But you know, it's also true that I like a good introduction.

Mr. President, that was a great introduction from a great man who honored me with a comment

that appears in the front of the book, The Gift of Rest, and has done

such an extraordinary job here at BYU.

I have the greatest admiration for this university's work in educating minds, ennobling spirits,

and inspiring in its students a commitment, a real-life commitment

to the words etched in stone at the entrance of this great campus. Enter to learn, go forth

to serve. I will come back to that. Let me now personally thank Elder L. Tom Perry and Elder Quentin L.

Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for being here this morning and for their leadership

in the Church of Latter-day Saints. I'm truly honored by their presence and very grateful for the opportunity we had to speak for a few moments before this forum began.

It is the faith of the Church that has inspired, informed, and energized this great university and succeeding generations of its

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