After careful consideration of the circumstances and conditions as they exist surrounding the race, including the now-shortened time frame available to run an aggressive and effective campaign, I will not seek my party's nomination.

The prosecution is carefully studying the circumstances of the events. We are doing the same. So at this time, the results of those studies are not at all conclusive or finished. I would anticipate in the next 30 to 45 days that most of the work will have been completed and we will reach a point where there will be specific information concerning what the facts show of how this happened. And until that time, we won't discuss the details of what happened.

This last year was simply ideal circumstances. Commercial real estate values generally held, interest rates are compelling and the [loan] maturity cycle is growing.

It is a race that we're absolutely watching.

We take nothing for granted. It's a race we're keeping our eye on, but we're confident.

He said no. The fractions in the Travers, they were walking. It was a race from the half-mile pole. If he ran in the King's Bishop, he'd have hooked up with Lost in the Fog and he'd gotten his butt run off for seven furlongs. It was sitting there waiting to happen. The one thing that beat us more than anything was time.