“We’re meeting in a city that, I’m afraid, has a high level of morality but a low level of salvation.”
–Southern Baptist pastor James Merritt, on the church’s meeting in heavily Mormon Salt Lake City, which was blanketed with Baptist volunteers going door-to-door in search of converts.
“He better enjoy it while he can. The 19th hole may not be all its cracked up to be.”
–Mississippi Atty. Gen. Mike Moore, after an elderly defendant charged in a 1966 firebombing death, who claimed he was too ill to go to jail, was photographed playing golf.
“It’s like a lacrosse match in Maryland. The only people going are interested in lacrosse. The only people who go to these things are people who are into this. But the idea that we pay too much attention to who we elect to lead the most powerful country on Earth is a silly statement.”
–Republican political consultant Stuart Stevens, on an Iowa “cattle call” for GOP presidential candidates to meet voters, held 18 months before the state holds the first caucus in the next presidential campaign.
