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Sutherland Institute
Stan Rasmussen
Manager of Public Affairs
- Why are you involved with Sutherland Institute? The Institute's governing principles, mission, and commitment to civil society -- a think tank, yes, and increasingly a "do tank." We are engaged in the disruptive technology of encouraging fellow Utahns more consciously to consider timeless principles in the making of personal choices and public policy.
- Who is your favorite political figure in history and why? I have to go plural here: The anything-but-mere-coincidence ensemble of men and women who laid the foundations of the United States of America, upon whose shoulders we all stand.
- Name someone who has influenced your life and way of thinking: While I have been blessed to associate with an incredibly wide variety of remarkable people, the most influential -- and those for whom I am the most grateful -- are my parents, brothers, wife, and children.
- What is a must-read book in your opinion? The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis.
- Hometown: Midvale, Utah, as a child, and then Sandy as a youth. (I was born in Mesa, Arizona.)
- First job: Grocery bagger at Reams market.
- Favorite television programs: Nova; almost anything on the History Channel, and CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood, on those rare occasions when I can watch.
- If you could go anywhere in the world right now, where would you go? Notwithstanding my love of Washington, D.C., Boston, Virginia, parts of Canada and South America, I would travel to places I have not yet visited -- the homelands of my ancestors in Europe.
- What would you like your epitaph to read? "Gone (for now) but not forgotten"
- What would people be surprised to know about you? I played in a rock 'n roll band.
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