"I'm not going to kick gays, because I'm a sinner. How can I differentiate sin? … This crowd uses gays as the enemy. It's hard to distinguish between fear of the homosexual political agenda and fear of homosexuality."

"This court has no hesitation in ruling that a pre-embryo is a 'human being' … whether or not it is implanted in its mother's womb."

"This is our Kristallnacht."

"They came up behind and shot her in the back with no warning. To me, that's murder."

Sources: The New York Times, American Medical Association, Haaretz, Associated Press.