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(Town hall meeting at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas) Rumsfeld: Thank you very much. (Applause continues.) Thank you all. Thank you very much. (Applause continues.) Thank you. General Cook, thank you so much for that warm introduction, and thank you for your leadership. I'm not a Texan, but I was stationed in Texas when I was in the Navy, at Corpus Christi. Does that count a little bit? (Laughter, applause.) Colonel Holmes, Governor Rick Perry, it's a pleasure to see you, to be in your great state of Texas. I do have the mike, and I...

Ten Commandments Rally in Alabama ~~~ Alan Keyes ~~~ August 16, 2003 I have to start out today making a bit of a confession. That's, by the way, appropriate for a catholic, I guess--making confession. But I have to say that very often I stand before crowds, and I believe that I speak from some knowledge that I've gained over the years, or some meditative thought. But today, I come to you befuddled a little bit because, here we stand, in the midst of a crisis--a federal judge has threatened the Chief Justice of the state of Alabama. We're all...

Alberto R. Gonzales, a Texas native, is a Harvard Law School graduate who became a partner in a Houston law firm. He later served as then-Gov. George W. Bush's general counsel, was Texas secretary of state and a justice on the Texas Supreme Court. He has been White House counsel to President Bush since 2001 and is reported to be a possible nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. Question: Where do President Bush's high level judicial appointments that are now in the Senate stand? What does the White House plan to do about these? Answer: If you look at the...

Ten Commandments Rally in Alabama ~~~ Alan Keyes ~~~ August 16, 2003 I have to start out today making a bit of a confession. That's, by the way, appropriate for a catholic, I guess--making confession. But I have to say that very often I stand before crowds, and I believe that I speak from some knowledge that I've gained over the years, or some meditative thought. But today, I come to you befuddled a little bit because, here we stand, in the midst of a crisis--a federal judge has threatened the Chief Justice of the state of Alabama. We're all...

Thursday, August 21, 2003 DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Abizaid (Participating were Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Gen. John Abizaid, commander, U.S. Central Command.) Rumsfeld: Good afternoon. I'm pleased to have General John Abizaid with me today, the combatant commander of the Central Command. He's in the United States for briefings. And before I turn the press briefing over to John and have him join me in answering questions, I'd like to say that I did just return from Colombia and Honduras, with some of those in this room. Both of those countries are steadfast...

  United States Department of DefenseNews TranscriptOn the web: http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030820-0223.htmlMedia contact: media@defenselink.mil or +1 (703) 697-5131 Public contact: http://www.dod.mil/faq/comment.html or +1 (703) 428-0711 Presenter: Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III, Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority Wednesday, August 20, 2003 Ambassador Bremer Interview with the CBS Early Show (Interview with Harry Smith, CBS Early Show.)      Q:  Paul Bremer is the chief U.S. administrator in Iraq.  Ambassador Bremer joins us this morning.     Thanks for joining us, sir.     Bremer:  Good morning.      Q:  Do you know who did this?     Bremer:  No, we don't.  Whoever did it was a terrible criminal, taking...

Alan Keyes on the Sean Hannity Show ~~~ August 19, 2003 HANNITY: It's an honor, a privilege, and a pleasure to invite back to our microphones--it's been a while--former Ambassador to the United Nations Alan Keyes. You were U.N. Ambassador, correct? KEYES: I was Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. I worked with Jeane Kirkpatrick. HANNITY: How are you doing? It's been forever now. How are you doing? It's been a while. KEYES: Oh, I'm doing pretty well. HANNITY: I understand you're out doing a lot of speaking around the country--or? KEYES: I've been doing a...

For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryAugust 16, 2003 President Discusses Healthy Forests in Weekly Radio Address      Audio THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week, I traveled to Arizona and California to see some of America's forests and parks, and to talk about my commitment to good stewardship of these natural treasures. On Monday, I visited the Coronado National Forest in Arizona, where wildfires recently consumed thousands of acres of forest and destroyed hundreds of homes. Nearby, I also saw forests that remained largely intact, thanks to wise forest management policy. Fire professionals and forest and park rangers agree, by thinning...

<p>This is a partial transcript of Special Report with Brit Hume, August 13, that has been edited for clarity. Click here to order the complete transcript.</p> <p>BRIT HUME, HOST: The continuing series of terrorist-style attacks on US and coalition forces in Iraq has raised an intriguing question: Has the US, which went to war against a regime thought likely to help Middle East extremists (search), ended up fighting those very extremists themselves?</p>

Time For Howie To Fess Up – Is Dean An Abortionist? By William A. Mayer, Publisher - PipeLineNews.org Howard Dean is a Park Avenue, left-wing Democrat whose claim to fame is having been in the right place [Lt. Governor] when the Republican Governor [Richard Snelling] of Vermont died of a heart attack in 1991. Dean was born, raised and educated in New York. Vermont – the “Ben & Jerry” state - is a strange place; arguably the most liberal state in the union. Many of its half-million residents come from either New York or Massachusetts - ”flatlanders” – tugging...

<p>TONY SNOW, FOX NEWS: Now joining us to discuss his campaign for California governor is Republican Bill Simon. He lost a close race last year to Governor Gray Davis, and he joins us from Los Angeles.</p> <p>Mr. Simon, welcome.</p> <p>BILL SIMON, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR CALIF. GOVERNOR: Thank you, Tony.</p>

<p>Good morning. Friday of this week was the 100th day since the end of major combat operations in Iraq. For America and our coalition partners, these have been 100 days of steady progress and decisive action against the last hold-outs of the former regime. And for the people of Iraq, this has been a period like none other in the country's history, a time of change and rising hopes after decades of tyranny.</p>

I think the record should show that this is one of those spontaneous things that we always arrange whenever the President comes in to speak, and it will be so reported in the press, and we don't mind, because they have to call it as they see it. But on our part, believe me, it is spontaneous. You are here to say goodbye to us, and we don't have a good word for it in English -- the best is au revoir. We'll see you again. I just met with the members of the White House staff, you know,...

Excerpts From Rice's Remarks to NABJ Excerpts from remarks Thursday by Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, before the National Association of Black Journalists in Dallas: - IRAQ: Confronting Saddam Hussein's Iraq was also essential. Let me be very clear about why we went to war against Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein's regime posed a threat to the security of the United States and the world. This was a regime that had pursued, had used and possessed weapons of mass destruction. The regime had links to terror, had twice invaded other nations, defied the international community and 17 United Nations resolutions...

Three years ago this summer when Hillary Clinton was running for the Senate as a, ahem, New Yorker, she appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She talked about some guy in a devil suit following her around New York (our very own Doctor Raoul, in fact.)In current interviews, she's still talking about the devil following her around at the book signings for her memoir, Living History.Mrs. Clinton was on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno again tonight. Jay opened the interview asking how her book tour was going:J: It's good to see you!H: Thank you, I'm glad to...

<p>The following is a transcribed excerpt from "Fox News Sunday," Aug. 3, 2003.</p> <p>HUME: I'm Brit Hume in for Tony Snow, and this is "Fox News Sunday."</p> <p>Al Qaeda in America: Are terrorist sleeper cells preparing new attacks? We'll ask Attorney General John Ashcroft (search).</p>

Press Gaggle By Scott McClellan Aboard Air Force One En Route Crawford, Texas WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a transcript of remarks made by Scott McClellan aboard Air Force One en route to Crawford, Texas: Aboard Air Force One En route Crawford, Texas 2:15 P.M. CDT MR. McCLELLAN: Sorry, we would have come back sooner, but we were finishing up the medical history, medical summary. We have copies coming momentarily, Josh is copying them right now so you should have copies of this momentarily. Let me go through a couple things. The President underwent his third...

For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryAugust 2, 2003 President's Radio Address      Audio THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week, we received some encouraging news on the economy. The nation's economy grew faster than expected in the second quarter. Manufacturers are receiving more orders and their inventories need to be replenished, home builders are busy meeting near-record demand, and retailers report that consumers are buying more goods. Many economists expect that growth will accelerate in the coming months. Yet this week's employment report also shows that many Americans who want to work are still having trouble finding a job. My administration...

Woods on FireBy Amy ReiterSalon.com | August 1, 2003 James Woods has frequently played manic characters, men with so much information clicking around their synapses it sometimes seems to blast from their mouths in fast, staccato streaks. Woods the man doesn't seem altogether different. During an interview with Salon, to talk about his new movie "Northfork," Woods discussed his admiration for George Bush and his intense dislike for the president's critics, as well as Bill Clinton and the particularly dumb breed of Hollywood liberal he seems to run into a lot. Woods insists he'd prefer not to talk about...

Q Thank you, Mr. President. Staying with that theme, although there are some signs of improvement in the economy, there are sectors in the work force who feel like they're being left behind. They're concerned about jobs going overseas, that technology is taking over jobs. And these people are finding difficulty finding work. And although you're recommitted yourself to your tax cut policy, do you have any ideas or any plans within the administration of what you might do for these people who feel like there are fundamental changes happening in the work force and in the economy? THE PRESIDENT:...