“Are these his personal views, or will he take the position that these are positions he took as part of an administration that had very conservative views?”

“The real divide [over election reform] boils down to the voter-fraud side for conservatives and voter-access issues for liberals.”

“They have no magic wand. They can talk about conservation and about driving less. But in the end it's about the individual consumer.”

“Bush promoted a conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so far in matters of race and equality.”

“I thought of John Roberts as a peace offering. President Bush could have nominated someone much more conservative.”

“We're operating very close to the conservative end of undersea habitation. The challenges go up exponentially as you go deeper.”

“The question becomes, which is the conservative and which is the radical decision? I think the more radical choice, frankly, is not to give the vaccine.”

“Moving forward, we have recalibrated our business to conserve resources and allow us to move more quickly to profitability,”

“[Some other Democrats have called Roberts] outstanding ... very different young lawyer at work, a partisan for conservative causes.”

“These days (2003) I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.”