“Even with more conservation and energy-efficiency programs, energy use will continue to grow as more people move to this region. To meet that growing demand for electricity, we'll need to add significant new power generation.”

“When the word gets out that Dean isn't liberal - and in fact is quite conservative - on fiscal issues, he'll pick up more McCain support. On fiscal issues, he's far to the right of Ted Kennedy.”

“Obviously cash conservation is a No. 1 priority as we make sure we get our cost structure in line in this period of very low revenue, ... This is an absolute surprise. We've never seen a downturn this rapid.”

“Given the historic skepticism of blacks toward Republicans, coupled with the current wounds, there is no easy fix for the president. We're hearing a lot of general charges by blacks that `He's a racist,' implying that `racist' and `conservative' are the same thing.”

“President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all.”

“We went out saying we would like to get two top five finishes. We got off the line in decent shape and stayed out of the corners. We wanted to play it conservative.”

“We feel like the extreme conservative right feel like after the election last year, they have us on the run. They'll continue to chip away at any rights gays and lesbians might have.”

“It's as much for internal [Republican] consumption as it is for public consumption. They have a very demanding wing that's conservative and intense on social issues whom they have to satisfy to get them to vote and to keep them on the reservation.”

“The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal. It expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values.”

“If we are to continue to try and force the square pegs of secular democracy and Western culture into the round wholes of a conservative Muslim society, then we will continue to see escalating resistance and escalating allied violence to contain that insurgency.”