was not unexpected.... But it was a divided nation that went to the polls.

It is an incumbent president in a situation where a great part of the nation experiences that it is in war with terrorism, ... The economy is moving in the right direction. These two issues together should have given Bush a clear victory. Despite this, it was very narrow. This shows that the U.S. is divided.

We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.

We have lost her, that is the way it is. And that realization hurts so terribly much, ... We shall carry the memory of Anna with us as an invisible treasure from which to gather strength.

The attack against her also hurt society.

We have lost so many -- a father, a mother, granddad, our little child, our small, small sister, my friend,