"I promise: I pledge my best effort."
David Hardage
Upon his election as executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board, Texas Baptists' key staff leader.
"The litmus for our elected leaders must not be the church they attend but the Constitution they defend."
Kenneth Starr
Baylor University president, in an op/ed column titled "Can I vote for a Mormon?" (The Washington Post)
"You need to make it as clear as you possibly can that you deeply regret your past actions and that you do understand the anguish and suffering they caused others, including your former spouses."
Richard Land
President of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, in an open letter to Newt Gingrich, who has been married three times (RNS)
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"God has given us this great country to allow his people to be free. I offer a public thanks to God."
Rick Santorum
Presidential candidate, after coming in a close second in the Iowa caucuses (RNS)
"The overwhelming commitment of a government is to provide justice and equality of opportunity for people. This meant to me that we should favor poor people, those who are deprived, instead of the richest and most powerful people. Governance should be designed as an equalizer."
Jimmy Carter
39th U.S. president (Christianity Today)
"If you lose yourself in your work, you find who you are. If you express the best you have in you in your work, it is more than just the best you have in you that you are expressing."
Frederick Buechner
Author/minister (Whistling in the Dark)
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