"Pat doesn't speak for evangelicals any more than Dr. Phil speaks for mental health professionals."

"Nearly every pastor is a salesman or a marketer of one kind or another because … we have a philosophy to sell. The best marketers and best salesmen will have more converts, will have more people, will take in more money."

"They believe that they answer to a higher power, in my opinion. Which is the kind of thinking that you had with the people who flew the airplanes into the buildings in this country, and the people who did the kind of things in London."

"I am not convinced by Intelligent Design, but they have brought a lot of difficult questions to the fore. Science only moves forward on controversy."

Sources: Knight Ridder Newspapers, The Christian Science Monitor, The Baton Rouge Advocate, The Washington Post.