"This provision is meant to protect health care entities from discrimination."

"[International sensitivity] toward the phenomenon of anti-Semitism should be similarly extended to the Islamic and Christian religions… . [Muslims] showing keenness not to violate Islam should go along with showing greater keenness not to hurt other faiths."

"We felt that if he has found God, then he is ready to go to heaven."

"I will not allow this situation to turn into a witch hunt of any sort."

"So many Christians, so few lions."

Sources: David Weldon quoted by the Associated Press, Hosni Mubarak quoted by the Associated Press, Lorraine Rhoads quoted in The Orange County Register, Charles Bennison in a press release from the Diocese of Pennsylvania, Gerald S. Rellick's comment about Christians and lions is no longer available from the Los Angeles Times, but was linked in Weblog on Nov. 16, 2004.