Quotation Marks

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

NAE president Ted Haggard, responding to broadcaster Pat Robertson's suggestion that the United States assassinate Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Robertson later apologized.

"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."

H.B. London Jr., vice president of pastoral ministries at Focus on the Family.

"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."

Joe Cook, Louisiana director of the American Civil Liberties Union, on efforts in Tangipahoa Parish to have more prayer in schools and at school board meetings.

"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."

Evolutionary biologist Richard von Sternberg, whom the U.S. Office of Special Counsel says faced undue "discrimination and retaliation" after he edited an article supporting Intelligent Design in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.

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