In the realm of values to internalize, I know which I prefer.
Reagan, whose swing voters were Southerners and blue-collar Democrats, sometimes deployed the language of values to stir resentment.
While they may bring their personal set of values to discussions, they accept the need for compromise.
Mr Brooks offers an alternative and more austere set of values to live by.
Individuals, businesses and governments must claim our respective and complementary roles in a revolution of values to restore the blue skies we all wish for the future.
But there has not been what Tony Judt recently called for, a redefinition of social democracy, an end to economism, the restoration of values to political debate.
Above all, they understood that foreign and domestic policies were indivisible: the United States could not afford to preach one set of values to the rest of the world while practicing another within its own borders.
Timothy Eller, the chief executive of Centex, an important home builder, referred to "a resetting of values" to enable buyers to get mortgages, and said he expected prices to keep falling as foreclosures increased.
In almost identical terms to Bush's West Point speech, Blair was speaking of Britain's gift of values to the world, back in 1997 in his speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet: "In the end I am, simply, a patriot.
Her LinkedIn profile says she worked on drawing up a new set of values to put the bank back on course after its traders were found to have manipulated Libor interest rates.
"I've often felt like an explorer, and I'm interested in not just bringing my set of values to the rest of the country, but also in seeing what's there," he says.
