Cokie Roberts delivers Wheaton commencement address

Journalist and author Cokie Roberts told the 385 members of Wheaton College's Class of 2006 that while it might be popular to denigrate and disrespect the government, it is a dangerous sentiment because government binds us together as a nation.

"We have no nationhood except our government," said Roberts, the award-winning senior news analyst for National Public Radio (NPR) and political commentator for ABC News. "We have no common ethnicity, race, history, religion, even language--despite what the Senate is up to right now. If you look at what's happening in the rest of the world today, you understand the miracle of this nation."



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