Quotable & notable

"This nomination fight is over."

--ABC TV political correspondent George Stephanopoulos May 7, the morning after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries

"I'm staying in the race."

--Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton the same morning. (Let's see which statement is true by the time you read this paper.)

"Guess what? Nobody asks me that anymore."

--James Baker, secretary of state under President George H.W. Bush. On the PBS program "American Experience," Baker said that for years after the first Gulf War, pundits and critics asked him why the first Bush administration didn't go into Baghdad.

"God ... has to be caught on the fly. Even Moses only gets to see him from the back as he passes by."

--From Dennis O'Brien's review in Commonweal of Sr. Elizabeth Johnson's book Quest for the Living God

"I think the onus should be on those who choose to walk apart. We have never asked those who disagree with us to leave the church."

--The Rev. Richard Kirker, an Anglican priest who is stepping down this year after three decades leading Britain's Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement

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