that in the early 1990s prompted moderates to leave in droves. In 2000, former US President Jimmy Carter left, despite being a three-generation Southern Baptist, complaining that the convention had adopted policies that ''violate the basic premises of my Christian faith. |
The American people are not sending their young men and women to Afghanistan for this definition of freedom. Mr. Rahman should be released immediately. |
The last thing that people of faith should ever want is government-sponsored religion. It's like getting hugged by a python -- it squeezes all the life out of you. |
The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way? |
The problem is there is so much more to do. |
The safety program is vague. But at the same time, I think the commitment is there for the certificate holders (who own cab companies) to really improve the safety program for the drivers and themselves. |
There's two or three of them that clearly choose to ignore that (rule) because they can make more money elsewhere. |
This is not a moral question. This is a prudential question of what works?what policies are going to put more money in the hands of the government, so it can decide what to do with [the money]. |
This president has kept no promise more faithfully than his promise in 2000 and again in 2004 that he would nominate only strict constructionist, original intent jurists to the Supreme Court, ... In the face of unprecedented obstructionism, led especially by former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle in the last term, this president has held fast to his promises and nominated scores of sterling and extremely competent judges. |
We are going to test the Gang of 14's commitment to moderation, ... 50-50 that they can hold it together. |
We, as Baptists, are people of the Book, |