I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports and I enjoy all sports. It's been great fun in my life and a great diversion.

The role of the vice president is to break ties in the Senate and inquire daily into the health of the president.

For decades we have been living lives of abundance, with little regard for our natural resources or global health. But we are now facing hard choices in our energy policy. Future generations - my children and grandchildren, along with yours - will have to live with the decisions we make today. And so it is time for us to make some tough and - hopefully - smart choices regarding our energy use and production before it is too late.

I think we've got to make a case that I'm ready, that I put my country first, and it's time to put aside partisan rancor and differences and work together for the country and that I can create jobs and restore our economy and keep our country safe.

Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore.

I think I am becoming incapable of being too surprised. But it just makes me sad and sick.

Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar, and for our Qatari friends.