I worked for two presidents who were men of faith, and they did not make their religious views part of American policy…President Bush’s certitude about what he believes in, and the division between good and evil, is, I think, different… The absolute truth is what makes Bush so worrying to some of us… Some of his language is really quite over the top… When he says ‘God is on our side,’ it’s very different from (former U.S. President Abraham) Lincoln saying ‘We have to be on God’s side.’

— Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State, speaking about President Bush’s strident religious rhetoric. Albright worked in the Carter administration during the 1970s and then served as Secretary of State under President Clinton from 1997 to 2001.

Mimi Hanaoka