The political process has made immense progress, Iraqi security forces are making a powerful difference, and the Iraqi population strongly rejects the insurgency and participates in the political process.

This is the year that we are going to try to sustain the accomplishments on the political, economic and security tracks.

We're putting a total of almost 15 billion dollars of US money into the Iraqi security forces. Obviously we have an obligation to the US taxpayer to ensure that that money is correctly used.

The differences observed are not in and of themselves outside the range of variation seen in the normal population.

We shall make the most lasting progress if we recognize that Social Security can furnish only a base upon which each one of our citizens may build his individual security through his own individual efforts.

Because we made real progress and because in 1998, we said here's our future agenda -- save Social security, keep the economy going, pass a Patients' Bill of Rights, continue to invest in our children's education -- the public responded and we moved closer to being a majority in that historic election in 1998,