QUOTE OF THE DAY
I could not find any Presidential quote of the day so I have picked part of Condelezza Rice's Statement in Baghdad instead.
Remarks With British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw
Secretary Condoleezza Rice
Baghdad, Iraq
April 3, 2006
SECRETARY RICE: Well, thank you very much. It has indeed been a very busy 24 hours or so. And we came here principally to underscore the importance of bringing to a close the negotiations on the formation of a government, the appointment of the most important positions, those who will govern and lead Iraq. I want to emphasize that we do know that the Iraqi leaders have been working very hard. Indeed, they have produced a program for governing. They have produced the institutions and procedures by which they will govern. This has not just been a matter of sitting around talking about who will get what positions, but rather they've done some very important work in this period of time.
That said, it is time to agree on those positions, because the Iraqi people are rightly demanding that they have a government after they braved the threats of terrorists to go to the polls and vote. And indeed the international partners, particularly the United States and Great Britain and others who have forces on the ground and have sacrificed here, have a deep desire and I think a right to expect that this process will keep moving forward, because it is after all the political process that will disable those who wish to engage in violence against the Iraqi people. It is only through a political process in which the Iraqi people have confidence and political leadership in which they have confidence that they can be certain to abandon for all time any resort to violence. You cannot have a circumstance in which there's a political vacuum in a country like this that faces so much threat of violence.
I want to underscore one other thing. It is important to come here and to urge the parties to move forward. It's also important to come here and to acknowledge the extraordinary journey that the Iraqis have been on for this number of years since the liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein. It's important to acknowledge that a people who have had a history of solving their problems and their differences by violence and coercion are now trying to do that through a political course. It is important to acknowledge that groups, communities that suffered great violence and great repression, the Shia who suffered enormous acts of repression under Saddam Hussein, who still mourn mass graves here in Iraq simply because they were Shia, that to see these people overcome that terrible history and to be a part of an effort for a national unity government is indeed inspirational to all of us who believe in democracy.
PHOTOS OF THE DAY - Could not decide which of the 3 I liked best 
President Bush, left, shares a laugh with Chicago Cubs team manager Dusty Baker in the locker room before their game against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, Monday, April 3, 2006
President George W. Bush winds up to throw the first pitch of the 2006 baseball season during the opening game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago Cubs in Cincinnati, Ohio, Monday, April 3, 2006.
President George W. Bush (R) walks back to the dugout with Cincinnati Reds Catcher Jason LaRue after Bush threw the first pitch of the Cincinnati Reds home opening day baseball game to him of the season in Cincinnati, Ohio April 3, 2006.