We live in a culture that still views addiction as a moral failure.

"If you are on the political right, obesity is indicative of moral failure," he said.

The former vice president used environmental issues to highlight what he called moral failures and deceptions by the Bush administration.

He acknowledged that in the past the church had often treated sexual abuse as a moral failure rather than a deep disorder.

"When you have deep moral failures you don't hit them with a wall of money," he said.

But you can make sure that you don't set yourself up for moral failure again.

I consider this a moral failure on the part of the federal government.

And he ties it to the moral failures of Russia itself.

In the same way every moral failure is going to cause trouble, probably to others and certainly to yourself.

"To the contrary, the evidence seems to indicate that effort and money have been expended to cover moral failure."