We wanted it to be a special program of the State Department. Randy worked for me.

I'd worked in the state senate in college and seen how important legal decisions were. And at the last minute, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison said, 'Why don't you come do an internship?' That turned into almost 15 years in the government, in the White House, and at the State Department.

[Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday he had read a summary of the New Yorker article and stressed that all war prisoners should be treated humanely.] I haven't read the article and I don't know anything about the substance of the article, ... I have just seen a quick summary of it. So I will have to yield to the Defense Department to respond.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

When Randy went there and played there, he revived the Canisius program. You can't say enough about what he's done there. That program is giving lacrosse fans around Western New York a lot of pride.

Our State Department is often wrong and timid.