Quotes of the day

Treasury Secretary Paulson is running the Treasury the way he ran Goldman Sachs. He's gotta make his numbers next year.--Bill Seidman, CNBC

Only the naive or disingenuous among the signers will express surprise that the media depicted the manifesto as an election-year effort to drive a wedge between conservatives and what is portrayed as a more authentic evangelicalism. Whatever the good intentions of some signers, the reporters got the story right.--Richard John Neuhaus