“As a conservative, it troubles me that we would blow this kind of an opportunity. Maybe it's not blown. But it's an act of faith at this point. President Bush knows and the rest of us don't.”

“This is what has conservation biologists worried. It's the combined effects of climate change pushing things to want to shift around the globe, and human habitat destruction ... preventing that movement.”

“Does he consolidate his base or conduct a running war with them between now and November? A Republican cannot win unless he has the conservatives and moderates united.”

“Semiconductor vendors remain conservative in their investment plans, which is enabling a continued gradual decline in supply-chain inventory levels and incremental improvement in manufacturing capacity utilization rates.”

“If you can't develop it and you can't economically grow trees on it and you've already sold the development and conservation rights to the state, then the state is the most likely buyer of the fee title.”

“It is proof positive of media consolidation run amok when one owner can use the public airwaves to blanket the country with its political ideology -- whether liberal or conservative,”

“A committed conservative with interpersonal skills equal to or superior to Rehnquist's would be a far more effective chief justice than a nominee of equal intellect who lacks those graces.”

“I would be surprised if it passed because, even among the conservative board members, there are a couple of teachers. I would think that they would see the value in knowing about education.”

“If that fails, the neo-cons in America and the conservatives in Iran will say, 'We've done it, it hasn't worked, let's continue with the battle of wills,' which can end disastrously for both sides.”

“He was set up by the Liberals, and he's being set up by the Conservatives, as the lightning rod for public discontent if this mission should go really sour. It's not his call.”