Pushing legislation that would undercut our troops just as we're beginning to make progress in Baghdad.

The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer - prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down. And I'm one of them.

So many people commute in this country by car long enough distances to really cut into their income, their real income, that they would change their vote based on gas prices.

It really gets me when the critics say I haven't done enough for the economy. I mean, look what I've done for the book publishing industry. You've heard some of the titles. 'Big Lies,' 'The Lies of George W. Bush,' 'The Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.' I'd like to tell you I've read each of these books, but that'd be a lie.

That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired.

This is a decent and honorable country - and resilient, too. We've been through a lot together. We've met challenges and faced dangers, and we know that more lie ahead. Yet we can go forward with confidence - because the State of our Union is strong, our cause in the world is right, and tonight that cause goes on. God bless.

My point is that she's [Laura Bush] busy and I'm busy, which makes our marriage not only interesting but exciting.