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Quote of the Day: Family Research Council President Tony Perkins

"I welcome the president's remarks -- but he'd be more effective if he made them in person. Even Jimmy Carter doesn't phone in to Habitat for Humanity."

-- Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, comparing President Bush's annual telephone call to March for Life anti-abortion protesters to former President Carter's role in a prominent house-building ministry. He made his comments in his conservative Christian organization's e-newsletter, Washington Update.