This was a poorly designed evaluation, with weak results, and the release was timed to be a political bomb.  The citizens should not have been forced to pay for such faulty research.
-- Kimberly Martinez, executive director, Abstinence Clearinghouse

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
-- Patrick Henry

[Politicians trying to make homosexuals a protected class under the law] now realize that agenda is not popularly supported and are trying to hide it from public view.
-- Gary Glenn, president, American Family Association of Michigan

To the global homosexual political movement, the freedom to speak certain words from the Bible is a freedom which cannot be allowed. Wherever this movement has obtained power, it has exercised it to deny freedom of speech.
-- Scott Lively

In 1977, ERA advocates realized that they were approaching the seven-year time limit three states short of the 38 needed for ratification, so they persuaded Congress to give them $5 million to stage a conference, called International Women's Year, in Houston. The conference featured virtually every known feminist leader and received massive media coverage. But it backfired. When conference delegates voted for taxpayer funding of abortions and the entire gay rights agenda, Americans discovered the ERA's hidden agenda.
-- Phyllis Schlafly

In this age of relativism, tolerance, and inclusion, Christ's claims of absolutism and exclusivity make many uncomfortable... [but] If we believe that Christ is who he claimed to be and that he defeated death and the grave, we must live for him -- in his presence, under his authority, and for his glory.
-- Ken Connor

The true American religious tradition, the one that disciplines power, subjugating it to reason, truth and, ultimately, an all-powerful God, is not a threat to liberty but its best defender.
-- Janice Rogers Brown

School officials had no right to silence Michaela's personal Christian testimony.
-- Mat Staver, executive director, Liberty Counsel

There is no greater privilege than suffering for your defense of the Gospel.

-- Jerry Falwell

Isn’t it simply Easter season, when fresh Gnostic gospels or dubious ossuaries show up like spring daffodils?
-- Peter Steinfels, New York Times reporter

Don't you know that truth is relative? ... Truth is whatever you want it to be.
-- Craig Livingstone, Clinton White House aide

Wanna hear my best sale ever?  Computer Associates Chief Executive Sanjay Kumar [now in jail after defrauding stockholders] was speaking at a dinner. He had too much to drink. Kumar was talking about the company’s troubles and using the F-word every other sentence. ‘F this and F that.’  I sold the next day.  
-- David Williams, money manager of Excelsior Value & Restructuring Fund

Our culture can’t survive without a shared understanding of the difference between right and wrong and the will to stand for what is right.
-- Dr. Tony Beam

You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.
-- General Sir Charles James Napier, British Commander in Chief in India, 1849-51

This programme shows we have reached the ultimate in the manufacture of the bio-baby. There always seems to be a new way of reconstructing the traditional family....It's time to ask children what they'd like rather than what selfish adults think is a good idea. I would put my money on children preferring a stable family with a mother and father.
-- Josephine Quintavalle, critic of in-vitro fertilization

One thing I don’t have to have -- I don’t have to have a hundred million dollars to convert myself into being a conservative.
-- Jim Gilmore, former Virginia governor and current Presidential candidate

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. If heed is not paid to this, it is not true music but a diabolical bawling and twanging.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

In this country, for the foreseeable future, the chief danger to religious toleration arises not from our avowed religions, but from the unavowed and illiberal religion of liberalism itself.
-- Dr. J. Budziszewski, philosopher, University of Texas

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Everywhere on the globe, for 5,000 years, the idea of human civilization without slavery was unimaginable.... What Wilberforce vanquished was something even worse than slavery, something that was much more fundamental and can hardly be seen from where we stand today: He vanquished the very mindset that made slavery acceptable and allowed it to survive and thrive for millennia. He destroyed an entire way of seeing the world, one that had held sway from the beginning of history, and he replaced it with another way of seeing the world.

-- Eric Metaxas, author, Amazing Grace

Such is the tragicomedy of our situation—we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. . . . In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
-- C.S. Lewis

It's not enough that students at Deerfield High are being exposed to improper and offensive material relative to unhealthy and high-risk homosexual behavior, but they've essentially been told by teachers to lie to their parents about it.
-- Matt Barber, Policy Director for Cultural Issues, Concerned Women for America

This is a moral issue and President Bush needs to step up and say so. This isn't a religious matter; it is moral and requires moral straight talk.
-- Rabbi Yehuda Levin on Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Peter Pace

I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way.
-- General Peter Pace, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Why did I become a conservative? Just look at what I left, and look at who is attacking me today. Let's face it: Those on the left who now attack me would be defending me if I had espoused liberal causes and spoken out against the Iraq war before I was outed as a pseudo celebrity. They'd be talking about publishing my memoir and putting me on a diversity ticket with Barack Obama. Instead, those who complain about wire-tapping reserve the right to pry into my private life and my past for political brownie points.
-- Marine corporal Matt Sanchez

I want my attorney, my tailor, my servants, even my wife to believe in God.
-- Voltaire, 18th century atheist

America no longer enjoys cultural consensus on God, religion, and what constitutes right and wrong.
-- Culture and Media Institute

Thank you for everything you do that nobody bothers to report on.
-- Mac Johnson, speaking to America's soldiers

I have long supported civil unions....We're going to make sure that nothing stands in the way of loving couples, gay or straight, to adopt children.
-- Senator Hillary Clinton

Poor James Cameron. He wanted some of that Da Vinci Code action so badly that he jumped on a 27-year-old story line that everyone else in Hollywood had wisely passed on.
-- Frank Pastore

If we will not use all our power to strengthen the family, then as a continent there is no future for us. We will be a continent settled by representatives of the Islamic world who care for the family.   
-- Roman Giertych, Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education

Is it beyond reason that journalists should seek out people who have lived lives of selfless achievement, people who have expanded their horizons to accomplish the unthinkable, people who have colorful but useful occupations, people who have bravely escaped from oppression, or who have overcome tragedies?
-- John Hughes

My daughter is going through a phase of wearing jeans so tight she can't bend her knees in them....I have a go at her and say, "Can't you wear something else?...And please wear a belt because I don't want to see your butt crack when you bend over."
-- Madonna, now discovering she doesn't want her own daughter dressing provocatively.

We're not scientists. At the end of the day we can't wait till every ossuary is tested for DNA....We took the story that far. At some point you have to say, "I’ve done my job as a journalist."
-- Simcha Jacobovici, director of the "Lost Tomb of Jesus" documentary, explaining why the filmmakers did not conduct DNA testing on the other ossuaries to determine the exact relationships between the people buried in the tomb.

You'd think that a science-based, call-to-action film from a guy who flunked out of divinity school and blew a slam-dunk election would be received with a certain amount of skepticism.
-- a Hollywood writer

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.
-- William Wilberforce

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
-- George Washington

Great leaders follow great principles, and this nation again needs leaders who aspire to public office by selflessly serving their country as did our first president.
-- Judge Roy Moore

I don't care if they think it's fair. There are people we don't want the children of Texas housed with. So, this is not about being fair to them. It's about the best situation for those children.
-- Texas State Rep. Warren Chisum

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
-- George Washington

The American liberal's true loyalty is to the politics of universal class struggle. It is an ideological pull, almost religious-like, that pulls them more than even loyalty to country. Worse for us, he sees America, the strong, as being on the bad side of the strong vs. weak seesaw. It is not just the American outlook he rejects but its very reality. The only strength the liberal finds legitimate is that which is used in pursuit and implementation of the socialist agenda -- be it in social engineering or the enactment of a forced equality.
-- Rabbi Aryeh Spero

"The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife."
-- Will Durant

Showing his personal stripes as a hateful, callous "progressive," former Democratic chairman Dan Matthews, Jr., under the title "Charlie Norwood coming home; won't resign seat," wrote such remarks as, "Oddly he may actually make a case for Dr. Kevorkian style euthanasia in his waning days," and "If he is refusing treatment, the least he could while still alive is to resign the seat with dignity intact" (emphasis added). That last had the obligatory "We certainly wish the best for Congressman Norwood" tacked on to the front of it, but, given the context, it does not seem possible that any eight-word phrase could ring more hollow.

-- Jeff Emanuel

"You would think that Mother Teresa had just died all over again the way the media -- especially television -- is covering every nuance of the life and death of Anna Nicole Smith. ... The world is being devastated by crisis, war and the deaths of noble, courageous people. Yet seldom are their names even mentioned in the news. They have become mere statistics. However, this former stripper's death has already been given more coverage than the death of former President Gerald Ford."
-- John Whitehead

There are still too many people who believe they are owed something from the sweat of another's brow. These people are told from the earliest stages in life that they cannot make it without the help and money of others. Instead of being taught the life principles of those who have made it, they are taught the envy principles of those who have not.
-- Nationally syndicated columnist Cal Thomas

I did not evolve from Turkana Boy or anything like it ... These sorts of silly views are killing our faith.
-- Bishop Boniface Adoyo, head of Kenya's 35 evangelical denominations.

If same-sex couples should be barred from marriage because they cannot have children together, it follows that all couples who cannot or will not have children together should equally be barred from marriage.
-- Homosexual activist Gregory Gadow

Anthropologists have long tried to close their minds to the plentiful evidence for murderous tribal warfare.
-- James Lewis

What kind of Christian would I be if I didn't stand up for the cross?
-- Karla Bruno, College of William and Mary graduate

The greatest gift a citizen of this country can give those of us entrusted with political office is to pray for us.
-- President George W. Bush

A man gives his testimonial in a United Methodist Church. He says that he likes the church because no one talks about sin and it makes church fun. He says he isn't a religious person. He's only a spiritual person. Why is the preacher seated behind him nodding vigorously in approval? Is the United Methodist Church still a religion? Or is it just whatever you would like it to be?
-- Mike S. Adams

The framers of the Constitution, in which the First Amendment is embedded, knew from experience that government control of freedom of speech and thought could lead to tyranny. Imagine if Tom Paine had had to give equal time to the royal governor's opposing views.
-- Nat Hentoff

There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality. All else is immorality. There is only true Christian ethics over against which stands the whole of paganism. If we are to fulfill our great destiny as a people, then we must return to the old morality, the sole morality.... All these blatant sham reformers, in the name of a new morality, preach the old vice of self-indulgence which rotted out first the moral fiber and then even the external greatness of Greece and Rome.
-- Theodore Roosevelt, 1905 State of the Union Address

We're pretty broad-minded about films that I think are edgy and could be considered over the edge, and that's the way we've always been. I don't feel too much pressure about it. And I think films like these are at the core of what a festival should be doing. At our festival, we're always going to have people who are dismayed by what we program. That comes with the territory. That's not a pressure.
-- Geoffrey Gilmore, director of the Sundance Film Festival

I think we have replaced MTV. MySpace is more convenient. You can search for things, while MTV is just delivering things to you. On MySpace you can pick your own channel and go where you want. That's why TV viewership is dropping among the MySpace generation. I started using the Internet in 1999. That was pretty late. But as soon as I did, I just stopped watching TV. The idea of sitting down and waiting for a show at a certain time, I couldn't do this anymore. The Internet is a better form of entertainment to me.
-- MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson

I aestheticized the sleaze right out of it.
-- Robinson Devor, director of Zoo, a documentary about bestiality now premiering at the Sundance film festival.

Roe and the decisions reaffirming it are equal in their audacity and abuse of judicial office to Dred Scott v. Sanford. Just as Dred Scott forced a southern pro-slavery position on the nation, Roe is nothing more than the Supreme Court's imposition on us of the morality of our cultural elites.
-- Robert Bork