He should have stayed at home and had people bring the stuff people need. We've had enough press conferences. Instead of flying around for picture opportunities, he should have his butt up in Washington sending people to take care of business.

A surprising number of respectable people, which includes the press corps, diplomats, civil servants, and the military, too, were involved, to some degree or other, in both drugs and gold.

It's a night we hate to go out. Christmas is bad just because it's that day. But people stay home that day. On New Year's, everybody's out driving.

This one appealed to me, ... My mom, before she passed, lived in a nursing home. It created great strife and guilt.

A lot of members of Congress just like to hear themselves. They want to issue a press release back home. They want to make a little bit of a splash in the local papers, local TV stations, (but) most of these things aren't going to be enacted into law.

Despite the bad press, the number of home sales during the October through December period was higher than during the last quarter of 2004, but the small year-to-year increase suggests that some slowing of the market is under way.