
“We're not talking about dead people, we're talking about the aliens; of their ghosts!”
February 26, 2004
Interview on ABC's "Life with Kelly and Michael", as quoted in "Trump: Muslim ban 'not about religion'" http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/262615-trump-muslim-ban-not-about-religion by Jesse Byrnes, The Hill (9 December 2015)
2010s, 2015
“We're not talking about dead people, we're talking about the aliens; of their ghosts!”
February 26, 2004
Progress In Religion (2000)
Context: To talk about the end of science is just as foolish as to talk about the end of religion. Science and religion are both still close to their beginnings, with no ends in sight. Science and religion are both destined to grow and change in the millennia that lie ahead of us, perhaps solving some old mysteries, certainly discovering new mysteries of which we yet have no inkling.
"Information Sharing, Patriot Act Vital to Homeland Security" http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040420-2.html speech at Kleinshans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York, 20 April 2004; whitehouse.gov (accessed 2006-05-18)
2000s, 2004
“They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.”
Source: The Nature of Jade
“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.”
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C. http://www.hud.gov/news/speeches/presremarks.cfm (June 18, 2002)
2000s, 2002
Quoted in Tom Crisp, The Book of Bill: Choice Words Memorable Men (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2009), p. 204.