In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

I don't expect the government to solve my problems, but at least I expect them to understand it.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

One of the reasons to pick the cancer effort is to demonstrate to people that there's not much beyond our capacity. It will take time, but if we focus, if we narrow down where the bottle necks are and we move, there's never been a problem we can't solve.

America doesn't have health insurance.

You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan.

To overcome this obstacle, and to discover and dismantle Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, UNMOVIC and the IAEA must interview relevant persons securely and with their families protected, even if they protest publicly against this treatment. Hans Blix may dislike running ''a defection agency,' but that could be the only way to obtain truthful information about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction