We've got two besieged leaders in their own way, and neither one is looking to be a problem to the other, nor does he want the other to become a problem.

We are looking to get into the No. 1 spot because that would mean we won the game. Neither one of us wants to lose that position. It will be a fight out there, and whoever survives will win the game.

They see a printed record here that is negative.

And suddenly, as nothing before had for the Chinese, this indicated that the Congress really counts in American policy process.

Both sides are trying to keep this thing well on the tracks.

I have to give them credit. They are pioneers but are they leaders? And one might want to ask the question that isn't it true that pioneers die with arrows in their backs?