—from a resolution opposing illegal immigration submitted by District Chairman Don Larsen at the Utah County Republican Party Convention, April 28
“Science doesn’t tell us the answers, so some of it we have to go on feelings.”
— Peter Melchett, director of the Soil Association and former Greenpeace U.K. chief, on whether organic food is better for human health, quoted by the BBC, April 26
“Using economics to influence public behavior is something this country is built on—it’s called capitalism.”
—New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, quoted in Time, April 20
“In a number of areas, I am a libertarian.”
—Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), discussing his bill to allow Internet gambling, quoted in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, April 19