won't be standing by idly. We'll be watching, we'll be following it all, we'll be engaging... And we'll be ready to move forward as soon as the parties in the region are ready to move forward.

The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

We clearly are excited about engaging voters, and we're ready to do that.

I could tell by his body language that Andy was ready to save it.

They find all kinds of excuses, a thousand excuses -- 'There are spies on this team. We don't want this. When are sanctions going to be relieved and removed?' The issue is Iraqi noncompliance, and we should not allow them to move us off that issue.