I have something else to ask you-to ask every American. I ask for you to pray for this great nation. I ask your prayers for leaders from both parties. I thank you for your prayers for me and my family, and I ask you to pray for Vice President Gore and his family.

I feel that it's important our professionals have the tools to keep the enemy, to stop their attacks.

I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California.

It's going to require numerous IRA agents.

I'm the only president who really put it out in the State of the Union and was very specific about how I felt we ought to do it.

I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.