[OTTUMWA Chief Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist was a] very nice, very gracious man ... rare opportunity. |
[PHILADELPHIA (CNN) -- Accepting the Republican vice presidential nomination Wednesday night, former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney looked ahead to the moment President Clinton leaves office, saying the eight years of the Clinton administration were marked by] little purpose ... repair what has been damaged. |
[Schmid is certain his candidate is] a Republican with a new vision. ... We are all God's children. |
[T]hat's just the nature of democracy. Sometimes pure politics enters into the rhetoric. |
[T]he best way to find these terrorists who hide in holes is to get people coming forth to describe the location of the hole, is to give clues and data. |
[T]he illiteracy level of our children are appalling. |
[The Coats impressed the Beach Boys, who told them,] Let us know if you need backup for your band. ... The White House has never heard such great harmonies! |
[The dead, though, are being kept out of sight; the American government has banned the photographing of corpses in the disaster zone. Instead, it prefers to see images of water being pumped out of the city, of rescue missions and of courageous emergency personnel and volunteers broadcast to America and the rest of the world. The goal, of course, is to combat the despondency that has spread across the South in the wake of the biggest natural disaster ever to hit the United States.] Even in the deepest darkness, we can see the light of hope, ... We will make the Gulf Coast more vibrant than ever. |
[To Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso]:'Do you have blacks, too?' |
[Venezuelan officials said Robertson's remarks were] a call to terrorism, ... I don't even know who this person is. |
[Vice President Al Gore has hit the airwaves with new ads in recent days highlighting Social Security. On the stump, Gore has repeatedly said he would protect the program in a] lockbox ... we've worked too hard to put it all at risk. |
[WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The war on terrorism is] advancing on all fronts, ... a productive week ... both at home and abroad. |
a census that counts every American. |
a new approach to governing. |
A president on a feedback loop |