As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

George W. Bush has exhibited hostility to science that no other president has ever displayed.

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.

The George W. Bush universe of threats is a constantly expanding universe as he moves to politically higher ground, escaping from failure after failure. He's not only radical, but the consequences of his radicalism have been catastrophic.

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.