Quotes

From the August/September 2007 issue

“Whereas, in order for Satan to establish his ‘New World Order’ and destroy the freedom of all people as predicted in the Scriptures, he must first destroy the U.S. There are ways to destroy a nation other than with bombs or bullets. The mostly quiet and unspectacular invasion of illegal immigrants does not focus the attention of the nation the way open warfare does, but is all the more insidious for its stealth and innocuousness.”
—from a resolution opposing illegal immigration submitted by District Chairman Don Larsen at the Utah County Republican Party Convention, April 28

“Science doesn’t tell us the answers, so some of it we have to go on feelings.”
— Peter Melchett, director of the Soil Association and former Greenpeace U.K. chief, on whether organic food is better for human health, quoted by the BBC, April 26

“Using economics to influence public behavior is something this country is built on—it’s called capitalism.”
—New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, quoted in Time, April 20

“In a number of areas, I am a libertarian.”
—Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), discussing his bill to allow Internet gambling, quoted in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, April 19