DeLay, September 28, on his own troubles with a prosecutor: "This morning, in an act of blatant political partisanship, a rogue district attorney in Travis County, Texas, named Ronnie Earle charged me with one count of criminal conspiracy, a reckless charge wholly unsupported by the facts. This is one of the weakest, most baseless indictments in American history. It's a sham, and Mr. Earle knows it. It's . . . the product of a coordinated, premeditated campaign of political retribution - the all-too-predictable result of a vengeful investigation led by a partisan fanatic."
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Anglican Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria, on such entities as the U.S. and Canadian Episcopal churches regarding - among other issues - homosexuality: "They are the ones who are tearing apart the fabric of our Anglican family, not the Nigerians."
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Katherine Freberg, a lawyer for more than 100 individuals accusing priests in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles of sexual molestation of children, on documents recently released by the archdiocese in the hope of quieting critics who have accused it of stonewalling: "What these documents don't include is the witness testimony about what the priests knew, what the bishops knew, what the cardinal knew. These sanitized documents don't begin to touch what we will be disclosing through the litigation process."
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Rutgers anthropology professor Lionel Tiger, on the news of drug use by model Kate Moss: "There is an ineluctable relationship between physical integrity and human performance. The doping scandals in baseball reveal a curiously archaic but finally anchoring passion about level playing fields and players on the level. The Kate Moss episode - in which the ethereal supermodel was photographed ingesting cocaine by a London tabloid, and was, as a result, fired by those companies whose wares she hocked on billboards - is another version of the persistent public hankering for Truth in Representation."
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President Bush, speaking Sept. 15 in New Orleans: "As all of us saw on television, there is also some deep, persistent poverty in this region, (with) roots in a history of racial discrimination . . . .(We pledge) not just to cope, but to overcome."
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Sen. John Kerry, in a Sept. 15 statement responding to the president's New Orleans remarks: "Leadership isn't a speech or a toll-free number. Leadership is getting the job done. No American doubts that New Orleans will rise again; they doubt the competence and commitment of this administration. Weeks after Katrina, Americans want . . . to know that their government will be there when it counts with leadership that keeps them safe, not speeches in the aftermath to explain away the inexcusable."