“I guess my cousin Barack has sat through some mighty riveting sermons over the years. If he gets elected, you're not going to want to miss those Washington prayer breakfasts.”
Vice President Dick Cheney
The vice president was speaking at the Radio and Television Correspondents Association Dinner in Washington, about his distant relative, Barack Obama, and his fiery former pastor. (RNS)
“God.”
President George Bush
The president was responding to a question from EWTN anchor Raymond Arroyo, “When you look into [Pope] Benedict XVI's eyes, what do you see?” (RNS)
“Our evangelistic efforts must acknowledge that we no longer live in a culture in which people are simply putting off coming to church to find truth. Many people today either don't believe truth exists or that the church is the place to find it.”
Scott McConnell
The associate director of LifeWay Research was discussing evangelistic methods in churches. (BP)