Mark Hatfield quotes:

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.

The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.

We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have found the will to develop missiles capable of flying over the polar cap and landing within a few hundred feet of their target. This is not innovation. It is a profound distortion of humanity's purpose on earth.

Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security.

I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.

For the Christian man to reason that God does not want him involved in politics because there are too many evil men in government is as insensitive as for a Christian doctor to turn his back on an epidemic because there are too many germs there.

Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do