I'm a Methodist Republican from Kansas.

Republican presidential candidate BOB DOLE.

He moves from the left wing to the right wing because what he really believes in is the West Wing.

Reporter MAUREEN DOWD in The New York Times, referring to the White House location of the Oval Office.

Time and time again, the Children's Defense Fund has missed the mark on the greatest crisis facing our children-family breakdown. For them, every problem is an economic one, explained not in the loss of values or loving homes, but in dollars and cents.

Family Research Council President GARY BAUER, commenting on the Children's Defense Fund "Stand for Children" event in Washington.

Prince George's County is not an intolerant jurisdiction and there is room for all kinds of expression.

P.G. County (Md.) councilwoman AUDREY SCOTT, upon the reinvitation to Justice Clarence Thomas to speak at a local middle school. Liberals on the school board pressured the school superintendant to withdraw the invitation. After a day of bad press, the superintendent changed his mind.

Garbage.

Former education secretary and drug czar WILLIAM BENNETT, in a new series of radio commercials unveiled last week to denounce violent, sexually explicit lyrics. Joining Mr. Bennett were C. Delores Tucker and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.).

His last words were 'why not?' and 'yeah.'

Drug guru TIMOTHY LEARY's home page on the World Wide Web (http://www.leary.com).

The events of the presidency change. You never know what's going to happen. So what you have to know is not a set of positions enunciated, and usually poll-fed anyway. Rather, you have to know the makeup of the politician's soul. Once you get the key to him, you know how he will act.

MARK HELPRIN, Bob Dole's new speechwriter.

I don't deny for a minute that I think that the basic political bent of most reporters is probably to the liberal side.

ABC's CHARLES GIBSON, co-host of Good Morning, America, answering a viewer's question during a CNBC cable call-in show.

Right when Whitewater seems to be grinding to a halt as a legal issue.

New York Times columnist THOMAS FRIEDMAN on PBS's Washington Week in Review (May 24) suggesting the timing of a Republican television ad, which lampoons President Clinton's claim of "active duty" military status to avoid a sexual harassment lawsuit, was related to waning interest in Whitewater. Four days later, the Little Rock jury returned its verdict.