It was a religious experience.

Actress MIRA SORVINO, who plays Marilyn Monroe in an upcoming movie, describing what it was like to put on one of the late actress's dresses, a cherry-print halter.

If Pat Buchanan came out in favor of feminism and affirmative action, no one would believe him. But Mr. Clinton can come out in favor of traditional values and be believed by enough people to put him back in the White House for four more years.

Columnist THOMAS SOWELL.

I wanted to be a journalist because I wanted to change the world. Yes, I came of age in the '60s.... All I dreamed of, as corny as it sounds, was Superman's logo: 'truth, justice, and the American way,' for all people in this country.

ABC news reporter CAROLE SIMPSON, accepting an award at the Radio and TV News Directors Foundation dinner.

There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time. Particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias. There is a liberal bias at Newsweek, the magazine I work for-most of the people who work at Newsweek live on the upper West Side in New York and they have a liberal bias.

EVAN THOMAS, Newsweek's Washington Bureau Chief, on a CNN talk show.

We are taking a stand for community values, sending a message that Spartanburg County isn't going to stand for some outside group telling us what we should and shouldn't accept.

Spartanburg (S.C.) County Council Member FRANK DILLARD, on the council's approving a resolution that says the "gay lifestyle... should not be endorsed by government policymakers." The resolution is similar to one passed in Cobb County, Ga., which prompted the Olympic Committee to reroute the torch relay away from the county.

It's the final tool with which to dismantle all sodomy statutes, get education about homosexuality and AIDS into public schools, and, in short, usher in a sea change in how society views and treats us.

Gay-rights activist MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE, writing in the May issue of Out, about the importance of homosexuals' winning a legal right to marry. Mr. Signorile urged the homosexual leadership to "acknowledge that gay marriage is just as radical and transformative as the religious right contends it is."