We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

I was really impressed by Lindsay's race. It was hot, and for her to go out there with that time was great.

The only time I'm ever close to Larry is when we start the race and then this morning I kept in sight, finishing maybe 50 meters behind. Larry must have been a little tired today.

[Streisand tells Democrats it's time to stop playing defense and go on the offense:] I hope you're through arguing among yourselves and distancing yourselves from President Clinton. ... Bipartisanship only works if you trust the other side. As we have learned in the past weeks, we cannot trust George W. Bush.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

It's a race against time over whether the Bush administration will be able to administer the act more sensibly so that people do not get so angry that the act will be overthrown by court or rewritten or substantially amended by Congress.