Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

There's no sustenance in the past.

We went to the WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong this past December because trade is so important to corn growers and to agriculture in general — we need to have access to the worldwide market. We applaud the efforts of this administration's work on free trade agreements.