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A Collection of Quotes, Comments, Statistics, and News Items<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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“Given a choice between a society with no newspapers and a society with no government, I would choose the latter.”
\nThomas Jefferson.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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“The country’s shift away from right vs. left thinking toward a right vs. wrong frame continues to gain momentum.”
\nSyndicated columnist Arianna Huffington.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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“I’m not real sure you’re a bunch of right-wing extremists. But if you are, we’re with you.”
\nGov. Rick Perry, <\/i><\/b>who raised the prospect of Texas secession addressing a tax-protest tea party in Austin (4\/15\/09).<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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“You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney, and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.”
\nJesse Ventura, <\/i><\/b>former Minnesota governor who endured waterboarding as part of his Navy SEAL training, on the unreliability of the tactic (Larry King Live, 5\/11\/09).<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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“It’s not about who they are; it’s about who we are.”
\nSen. John McCain (R-AZ) <\/i><\/b>in response to those who support the use of torture in interrogation.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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“51% of Americans now call themselves pro-life and 42% pro-choice on the abortion issue—23% said it should be illegal in all circumstances, 22% said it should be legal under any circumstances, and 53 % said it should be legal only under certain circumstances.”
\nGallup Poll Survey on Values and Beliefs <\/i><\/b>(5\/7-10\/09).<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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“Look, I am a Catholic. And before pro-life advocates protest President Obama speaking at the Notre Dame commencement, they should first look at the faculty there, especially in the science departments and the law school, where I am sure they will find many with the same views.”
\nJames Carville <\/i><\/b>on Meet the Press (5\/17\/09).<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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“The Vatican’s top bioethics official said the two Brazilian doctors who performed an abortion on a nine-year-old rape victim do not deserve excommunication, since they acted to save her life.”
\nStatement by Archbishop Rino Fisechella <\/b>in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano (3\/15\/09).<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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“Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s largest oil company, raised CEO Rex Tillerson’s compensation 34 percent last year to $22.4 million. His salary rose to $1.87 million, his bonus increased to $4 million, stock awards were $7.81 million, and the value of pension and other compensations rose $8.29 million.”
\n(U.S. Sec. & Exch. Comm. Filing).<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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“The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”
\nSecond President John Adams, <\/i><\/b>1797 Treaty of Tripoli.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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“It is not the job of government to tell the American people what, where, or when to pray.:
\nBrent Walker, <\/i><\/b>executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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“The U.S. church suffers a ‘dumbing down,’ from over simplified Sunday school materials to un-challenging feel-good sermons.”         (Marilyn McIntyre, <\/b>Sojourners, 6\/09).<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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“When you get my age, you cry at weather reports.”
\nDustin Hoffman, <\/i><\/b>fighting back tears while receiving France’s National Order of Arts and Letters.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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TEN WORST COMPANIES<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
The Better World Shopper <\/i>organization has determined that the following companies are the world’s worst when judged on Human Rights, the Environment, Animal Protection, Community Involvement, and Social Justice:<\/span><\/div>\n
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  1. Exxon-Mobil     <\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Kraft<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Wal-Mart<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Chevron-Texaco<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Pfizer<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Nestle<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. General Electric<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Archer Daniels Midland<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. General Motors<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Tyson Foods. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    (Christian Century, <\/i>5\/5\/09).<\/span><\/div>\n
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