The president understands we have a historic opportunity here. The president believes we can act as a facilitator, as an honest broker, as we have in the past. |
The president wanted to just let the firefighters know how much the country appreciates what they are doing. |
The president was pleased with the information and was looking forward to a full briefing in the morning. |
The public statements made by the ministers confirm what we have been saying that both producing countries and consuming countries need stability. They recognize that in their announcement, |
The Republicans may be divided but the country is not, the country believes we need to get Social Security fixed and we should do it this year, |
The Republicans on the Judiciary Committee and the Republicans in the House have finally come clean about what they're up to. They have, despite all the protestations that this a narrow, narrowly focused process looking at what was in the referral, what it really is is a partisan process designed to damage the president and investigate the president on any subject that they see fit to go after. |
The Republicans seem to want to draw attention away from the fact that they haven't been able to get their work done. |
The same people who say there has been no ethnic cleansing in Kosovo are now saying they are withdrawing troops, and as evidence let you see 120 or 150 people getting on buses heading north. |
The statement, I think, is pretty straightforward, that he will testify completely and truthfully; he told you that, |
The tax is set at what the Congress and the president believe is an appropriate level to help. |
The United States stands firmly in support of a solution that offers justice and human rights for all the citizens of a unified, peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka. |
The way the Republicans have done it is actually quite dangerous. They think we should do it in a broad block grant that if you read their proposal could actually be used for vouchers, ... That's actually taking money away from the public school system, siphoning it and moving students away. We think there ought to be more teachers in the classroom, lower the class size and we should move away from ideas like vouchers. |
The way the resolution is written we really don't know where we are going in this process after Wednesday, ... We don't know exactly what's going to happen after Wednesday and there are enough holes in this resolution that it can be opened up with a simple majority and we could be here for a very long time. |
The White House has not been informed of anyone planning to leave, |
The White House used a lot of capital and were very adamant on the format of this debate, being very particular to do something that plays to Dick Cheney's strengths, and I assume, shielded some of his weaknesses, whatever those might be, but they insisted on this so-called 'Meet the Press'-type format and used up quite a bit of capital to get that, |