Old Fogey's Quotes for Sunday

"There's nothing sweet about the doughnut hole."
Deene Beebe, spokeswoman for a Medicare Rights Center, regarding the gap in drug coverage for many seniorswho must pay $2,850 from their own pockets
Bills Soar As Many Hit Gap in Drug Plan

"Nothing will work unless Hezbollah agrees to it. And you can't expect Hezbollah to do something that is committing suicide."
Robert Malley, director of the International Crisis Group's Middle East program
Analysis: U.S. Stance Threatens Diplomacy Efforts

"Republicans are playing politics with the lives of hardworking people."
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass), regarding the House linkage of a minimum wage hike to a decrease in the estate tax
Wage Hike Teetering in Senate

“You cannot say the word ‘Jesus’ in 2006 without having an awful lot of baggage going along with it. You can’t say the word ‘Christian,’ and you certainly can’t say the word ‘evangelical’ without it now raising connotations and a certain cringe factor in people. Because people think, ‘Oh no, what is going to come next is homosexual bashing, or pro-war rhetoric, or complaining about ‘activist judges.’ ”
Brian D. McLaren, the founding pastor at Cedar Ridge Community Church in Gaithersburg, Md. who challenges the more politicized evangelical establishment.
Disowning Conservative Politics, Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock

''There are some in politics who hold that voters are dumb, ill informed and easily misled, that voters can be manipulated by a clever ad or a smart line.''
Presidential adviser Karl Rove
Rove Blasts Journalists' Role in Politics

"Without the promise of gift registries and rehearsal dinners, it seems, many more newborns in New York would be found in trash cans."
Dan Savage, the editor of The Stranger, a Seattle newsweekly, regarding courts' linkage of marriage to children in rulings against gay marriages
Same-Sex Marriage Wins by Losing