church of the holy sepulcher built where jesus was buried and rose from the dead. and also a church built to honor the giving of our father, the lord s prayer. she had a building program there. and she had the money and his support. constantine also found in her faith something that would redeem him. he knew christian faith very well, and he knew baptism remitted all your sins, and he had quite a bit of blood on his hands. he wasn t the head of the roman empire for being mr. nice emperor. indeed, constantine was ruthless. he killed his son, his wife and several relatives. he had persecuted and tortured christians. yet with numbers in the millions, he knew they were crucial to keeping his fragile empire together. so he made christianity legal in
all i know, joan, every college, every university, every hospital, has a building program. they come to you every year. it s called their capital campaign. they build stuff. that s why schools get bigger like georgetown over here. why doesn t the united states government build anything? i want to be clear, and i know nira knows this, too. the president cannot do this on his own. he can t build the buildings on his own, chris, and can t get the money out of congress to do it. i really don t want to be someone who s saying, he can do this, he s just not trying. he s not using his bully pulpit as effectively as he could. he s not articulating what our i m a democrat what our agenda as democrats is going to be to give people a reason to come out and turn out these republicans in 2014 and 2016. that s the only thing to do at this point. he cannot build a railroad or a college, himself. i have to say that. you know what my speech is at every college graduation, make them say no.
we ve actually done well in deficit reduction. supposed to be at 8% of deficits to gdp in 2023, a decade from now. it s now dropped to 3%. we re doing deficit reduction really well. what we re not doing is economic growth really well. who s advising the president on austerity? i think the challenges, we demonstrate how austerity is failing in europe and it s a bad strategy and why we need to have investments now. we have a we put forward a proposal where you can invest in all i know, joan, every college, every university, every hospital, has a building program. they come to you every year. it s called their capital campaign. they build stuff. that s why schools get bigger like georgetown over here. why doesn t the united states government build anything? i want to be clear, and i know nira knows this, too. the president cannot do this on his own. he can t build the buildings on his own, chris, and can t get the money out of congress to do it. i really don t want to be someo
now. it s now dropped to 3%. we re doing deficit reduction really well. what we re not doing is economic growth really well. who s advising the president on us a tausterity? i think the challenges, we demonstrate how austerity is failing in europe and it s a bad strategy and why we need to have investments now. we have a we put forward a proposal where you can invest in all i know, joan, every college, every university, every hospital, has a building program. they come to you every year. it s called their capital campaign. they build stuff. that s why schools get bigger like georgetown over here. why doesn t the united states government build anything? i want to be clear, and i know nira knows this, too. the president cannot do this on his own. he can t build the buildings on his own, chris, and can t get the money out of congress to do it. i really don t want to be someone who s saying, he can do this, he s just not trying. he s not using his bully pulpit as effectively as
thought, if you can t beat them, join them. and i think with his mother, too, well, he thought that this is true. constantine had an influential mother, helena, a devoted christian. she traveled to the holy land and located the most important sites from the christian story, building great shrines that remain among the holiest christian places today. she was a very noble lady, and she led the building program in the holy land to have the church of the holy sepulcher built where jesus was buried and rose from the dead. and also a church built to honor the gives of the our father, the lord s prayer. she had a building program there. and she had the money and his support. constantine also found in her faith something that would