Category: Verbatim

Quote du Jour

Buck Banks

We can achieve long-lasting peace for this country [Iraq], and it requires tough work. It also requires a strategy that will be effective, and we’ve got men and women of both political parties around this table who spent a lot of time thinking about the way forward in Iraq and the way forward in the Middle East.

— George W. Bush, President of the United States, on the Iraq Study Group Report being released today

Quote du Jour

Buck Banks

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain it as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who will be governed? As for monarchy and aristocracy, they are both of them clearly approved and directed in Scripture, yet so as referreth the sovereignty to Himself, and setteth theocracy in both, as the best form of government in the commonwealth as well as in the church.

— John Cotton (1584-1652), Puritan minister, American colonizer