The Week in Quotes (Sept. 4 – 10)

Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond.

Former senator and 2012 Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, questioning Gov. Rick Perry’s credentials as a conservative.

We’ll see how conservative Rick Perry really is.

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Princeton University professor Julian Zelizer, on how the topic of science could play a role in tonight’s Republican presidential debate.

The Republican Party was once the party of business and market — and now they could become the party of anti-science.

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Gov. Rick Perry, invoking the Father of Science to support his claim that an increasing number of scientists are casting doubts on man-made global warming.

Galileo got outvoted for a spell.

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President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention Richard D. Land, criticizing New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for not including clergy members as speakers at Sunday’s official ceremony at ground zero on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

We’re not France. Mr. Bloomberg is pretending we’re a secular society, and we are not.

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