Permitting And Protecting Even The Smallest Acts

I Should Say The Leadership's Proposal In The Senate And The House Are Very Unpopular. And When People Realize It Will Raise Taxes, Raise Their Insurance Premiums Cost And Explode The Deficit, They Think Twice About It.

In The White House, You Can Be On The Pitcher's Mound Or You Can Be In The Catcher's Position. Put Points On The Board. Show People You Can Govern. Deliver On What You Said You Were Going To Deliver On.

Counting The Numbers Of Troops Is Not Going To Define Our Success Here.there Is No Military Success, Ultimately, To Afghanistan. The Afghans Themselves Are Going To Define What Happens Here. And We Have To Convince Ourselves That We Have A Strategy In Place That Empowers Them To Do That And That Is Realistic In What Our Expectations Are From Them And On What Schedule.

I Hope President [hamid] Karzai Understands That Our National Security Interests Don't Depend Entirely On His Decision There Whether To Allow A Recount. Obviously The Legitimacy Of That Government Is An Important Component Of It. My Point Is It Shouldn't Be The Lynch Pin For Us Deciding Whether We're Going To Protect Our National Security Interests In That Region.

The Moment Somebody's A President And You Call Him "mr. President," (the Person Represents) Our Culture, Our History, Our Sense As Our Nation.