I think in fairness to the representative, I probably ought to look at it before I give you a comment about it.

I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction.

It's a very unfortunate comment. And I don't think in retrospect he (Benitez) would probably go forward and say that again. Hector has been called upon on multiple occasions to do World Cup qualifying throughout the continent. He's had numerous appointments to many world championships.

I think the question of how we deal with our client is probably something we ought to keep to ourselves. It's private and privileged.

I think it's a matter not so much of legality as of fundamental fairness, that the president ought to have a right to respond to any report if there is such a report.

In fairness, I think Bush knew he would get blamed for Virginia, one way or another. Given that, they probably thought they would do what they could.