that dog won’t hunt.

This attack is obviously designed to harm the peace process. We will press forward with our efforts to get the parties back on the path to peace.

A safe, viable and effective commercial air travel system is important to America’s economy and to our way of life.

It’s a question you need to direct to Mr. Greenspan. I don’t speak for him,

After successfully knocking out as many military votes as they could find, the Democrats don’t like the criticism they are receiving, so they’ve issued a political press release that has no legal impact. They accomplished...

If they go in under the current regime, it is a fool’s errand to call them inspectors. They will be nothing more than tourists who get a run-around.

It was a very difficult decision.

These visits will be rescheduled when circumstances permit,

The American people are going to give the President a second look here in his sixth year because he?s engineering these changes. That?s helpful. He needs the country to give him a second look.

In Texas, Gov. Bush has a proven record on his ability to work in a bipartisan fashion to enact a patients’ bill of rights, to increase funding and resources for education and achieve the two...

There is a school of thought that you can have better controls and more effective ways of welcoming people to this country, welcoming trade to this country, while keeping people out who would do us...

The president views [the] State of the Union as a moment to talk about the big challenges, the major challenges our nation faces at home and abroad. He sees it as an opportunity for this...

[Medical technicians tried to administer oxygen to Fleischer, 40, but he refused.] They kept trying to give it to me, but I didn’t want it, … They checked my blood pressure and all other vital...

We’re very encouraged by the direction of the bankruptcy legislation. However, we continue to work with leaders on the Hill. The president is looking forward to the presentation of the bill that he can sign.

Saddam Hussein has entered into agreements before that he has immediately violated.

a tired old cry … a political charge … that has no substance.

These are places that Saddam Hussein doesn’t even go to. These are government facilities, government property where who knows what is going on. And there’s a good reason Saddam Hussein does not want people to...

We have no information to substantiate that report.

The president said he understood he was never in any danger. He kept up what he was in the middle of.

The first evidence of those choices will come in that meeting on Wednesday and the president wants to hear what the Chinese have to say.

It is something the United States cares a great deal about. And the president is worried about the humanitarian conditions.

The manner in which Air Force One operated maintained the security of Air Force One at all times.

I hear your concerns,

Chairman Arafat spoke constructive words but what is important is that they be followed up by concrete actions, … That’s what will be measured.

The current mixture of local officials working with federal officials… is what the law enforcement community believes is the best approach, … It remains a joint operation.

It is part of the constructive debate from thoughtful people and it underscores many of the things the president has said about … the threat [Saddam] presents to the world,

The United States doesn’t understand the reasons for an apology, … Our airplanes were operating in international air space and the United States did nothing wrong.

part of what, to his supporters, is steadfastness and, to his critics, is stubbornness.

This is not a formal, legalistic ending of combat, but [an announcement that] major combat operations have ended. From a legal point of view, this is not the end of hostilities.

They are receiving medical care, they are receiving food, they are receiving far better treatment than in the life they were living previously.

Certainly, the candidates who ran, ran very strongly on the president’s agenda and won on that agenda.

It is still in very preliminary stages.

The administration welcomes the review, … It’s important. We always work together with Congress on dealing with the threat of Iraqi possession of WMD and we will continue to work with Congress on the facts...

The withdrawal the president called for is continuing,

I think it’s fair to say that as a result of the legislation enacted by the Congress last year and its implementation throughout the course of this year, security gets better at the airports every...

[The hopeful mood on display at the White House on the war’s opening night has vanished. A presidential adviser said aides were trying to concentrate on their work while glued to their televisions.] They’re very,...

This is not a bluff. The U.S. is preparing for war in case a decision is made to go to war. We have to deal with realities, and we will. And if basing is not...

The president believes that all the parties in the Middle East have to take advantage of what is happening today and see this as a moment to realize the repercussions of going down the wrong...

Nobody in the government said hard evidence. We said we have concerns.

In other words, [some small businesses] would be taxed at the 39.6 percent rate or the 36 percent rate, and when the president talks about cutting tax rates for all Americans, one of the biggest...

He will talk about some of the things he learned growing up,

And that is why this is an important issue that needs to be fixed and addressed.

He [Carter] said some things that the Cuban people have not heard before about their rights, about freedom in Cuba, and that’s helpful and positive,

President-elect Bush views his job as a leader to build support for his agenda, which he ran on during the course of the campaign.

The president has called on all parties, and reiterates it today, to seize this moment and do everything possible in the wake of this attack on the United States to move forward with the peace...

I think those types of statements contribute to the coarsening of the tone in Washington, D.C., … The whole issue of land use in the West is one of the most polarizing issues in America,...

We will work closely with Pakistan to try to achieve that outcome of bringing them to the U.S..

I don’t think this is the typical case,

Reviewing the tape does not lead anybody to the conclusion that this is something fresh.

[Later Friday, he was taping a] message of sympathy and solidarity … be joining our friends in Australia in a day of mourning for the terrible tragedy that took place. We lost lives, they lost...