Quotes of the day

By Lee Russ

Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 05:07 PM

The message we send is simple enough: permission to torture requested; permission to torture is hereby denied everyone, inclusive of George W. Bush, president of the United States of America.

Editorial in the Bahama Journal.

The Republican Party in Oregon during the last several years has descended into ideological extremism and partisan bickering. The performance record of the Legislature under Republican rule is a bitter joke. Nothing gets done, everything is reduced to an ideological slogan.

Rick Ritter, in a letter to the Salem (OR) Statesman Journal.