The Washington Times is an excellent paper, and Ralph Hallow is an first-rate journalist. This is an explicit, declarative report that Land actually said what The Washington Times says he said. Your argument is with Hallow, not me.
That was clever. However, I did find my answer from a link earlier. It wasn't in quotes because that was not really what he said.
But since the poster here on FR didn't write the article .....
I didn't think Land said it. I don't believe everything I see in print anymore. People have agendas.