As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

Many years ago, I was actually hired to write the sequel to 'Independence Day.' And I wrote a sequel. And they paid me a boatload of money to go write this thing. And after I wrote it, I read it and I gave them back the money and I said, 'Look, this is an okay movie I just wrote. But it's not worthy of the sequel to 'Independence Day.'

Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul!

It was wild. It really felt like it was 'Independence Day,' the movie.

At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.

Democrats have been fighting for energy independence years before President Bush 's first day in office, while this administration has offered only lip service, and only when its poll numbers resemble (president Richard) Nixon's.