WHO SAID SO?

“It is deficit-neutral. It bends the cost curve. It covers 30 million Americans who don’t have health insurance, and it has extraordinary insurance reforms in there to make sure that we’re preventing abuse.”

President Barack Obama

On the latest version of health care legislation being pursued in Congress.

“In conservative Protestant culture, he’s second only to Billy Graham. Jerry Falwell is important, too, but I think in the long run we’ll see that Oral Roberts had more impact.”

Grant Wacker

A professor at Duke University’s divinity school on the death of pioneer TV evangelist Oral Roberts.

who helped pioneer TV evangelism in the 1950s and used the power of the new medium — and his message of God’s healing power — to build a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university that bears his name.

“The North Koreans have a choice: continued and further isolation or benefits for returning to the six-party talks and dismantling their nuclear weapons program.”

A senior State Department official

In a statement after announcing that President Barack Obama has written a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il as part of an intense effort to draw the reclusive nation back to nuclear disarmament talks.