When I see all these assumptions, I get a little twitchy.

When assumptions were made that I was going to bail out there was a little part of my brain that thought 'I am going to do to prove them wrong'. In the end that wouldn't be coming from my heart and doing what was right.

I think when we do the budget, we make a number of assumptions, and that's one of them. We assume that there will be an economic package put into place.

To assume is to presume.

Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half of every day. There wouldn't be any native inhabitants. You couldn't expect life---which is fundamentally dependent on light---to develop under such extreme conditions of light deprivation. Half of every axial rotation spent in Darkness! No, nothing could exist under conditions like that.

When something like Sept. 11 or Pearl Harbor happens, it undermines people's taken for granted assumptions that day to day, things will be safe. Massive, really tragic disasters really do, over time, change the national psyche.