All we want is for them not to approve it. This is a Republican administration, and the pressure from the abortion industry and Planned Parenthood is very strong. It is important for the administration to remember who their friends are.

The White House is where you want to pressure the FDA -- they're more politically sensitive.

The word would be flummoxed. We don't have any idea how she would measure up, because she doesn't have any available record.

It's been fascinating to watch the Republican response to Al Gore's selection of me, ... Because, honestly, the areas where I agree with George Bush are so much the exception and not the rule.

[INDIANAPOLIS -- It's the kind of statement a politically safe Republican facing a perennial gadfly opponent in 2006 can make.] We're winning the war in Iraq, ... We've never lost a tactical engagement with the enemy. We've never even lost a platoon.

In Miami, there were only a couple thousand protesters in a city that is heavily Republican and includes a lot of right-wing terrorists. It was favorable territory for the police. They had the protesters outnumbered 10-1.