Here are a few more...
I believe that what I do with my body is my business.
I believe the greatest responsibility we have with our tax dollars is to provide a public school education that prepares young people with the adequate tools to succeed in life i.e. the fact that we as a country remained silent while our children were taught abstinence only sex ed will be later recalled as our greatest failing ( a close tie with No Child Left Behind)
I believe that some day, America will live up to its promise and truly be a color-blind society. We are not there yet.
I think it is a great disappointment to me that my childhood fascination with John Wayne is diminished by his well documented racism. I will give him a pass though as a) it was a different time and this position was not unique to him and b) Rooster Cogburn was an awesome movie.
I believe that those who make the most money should pay the highest tax rate. ( Warren Buffet is with me on this one)
I believe that my relationship with God is, much like my body, my business.
I believe that it does not take a village to raise a child but it sure as hell helps ( note-there is nowhere I have ever lived where my son was more influenced by other adults than in San Pedro)
There are more but here is what I believe in more than all of these-my opinion is exactly that- MY opinion. It is no better or worse than anyone else's and that, my friend, is the most awesome part of being American.