The Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar Dr. Mohammad Sayed Tantawi Saturday condemned the violence and assassination operations carried out by Israeli occupation forces against defenseless Palestinians. |
The only people who would have had authorized access to that tape were the most senior members of our campaign, and so it appears that whoever sent that tape to the Gore campaign obtained it in some sort of unethical way. |
The person I work for, President Bush, is the first president in the history of America to say we believe the Palestinians should have a state, living side by side in peace with Israel, |
The person who is running for president is seeking to be the leader of the free world, not a Jeopardy contestant. |
The president tonight will make the case that we now face a choice. We can continue that progress or we can turn back. |
The reason that I choose this meeting, as my first meeting on my first trip to the Middle East is to talk about the courage of this institution, ... I praised Sheik Tantawi for his courage, and he said it is not courage but I did the right thing to speak out against terrorism and extremism. |
The sheikh pointed out that all divine religions are built on the spirit of love and it is important that all of us work together to fight extremism and terrorism, |
The third stop on my visit will be Turkey. Turkey is a very important democratic country, as well as being a bridge between Europe and Asia, and a key ally. We will be arriving in Turkey as they are preparing for EU accession talks. These talks are an event which we support in full. |
The timing of an announcement like this, four or five days away from the election about an incident 24 years ago, which the governor's daughters don't even know about, is certainly questionable, |
The vice president does a pretty good job of doing that himself. |
The vice president has consistently and repeatedly made up things, exaggerated, embellished facts, |
The vote count on Tuesday night showed Governor Bush won Florida's election and a recount has now confirmed his victory. We hope Vice President Gore and his campaign will reconsider their threats of lawsuits or still more recounts which could undermine the constitutional process of selecting a president and have no foreseeable end. |
The votes in these four selective counties are not being counted accurately or fairly. They are being counted subjectively and selectively. They are being counted differently than votes in Florida's 63 other counties. They are being counted differently within the four counties themselves, |
These are Americans who are just as American as I am. |
This is a big job with a lot of different moving pieces. Ed Murrow once famously said that there's no cash register that rings when a mind is changed. But I think over the long haul we can begin to shape a better perception in the Middle East. |