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In Newsweek poll, President Bush earns 52 percent approval rating. . . . Bush on Iraq casualties: “We mourn every loss. We honor every name. We grieve with every family. And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.” . . . More Bush: “Sixty years of Western nations’ excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe — because in the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.” . . . In NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 63 percent support U.S. military action removing Saddam Hussein from power. . . . Gov. Bill Owens (R., Colo.), on BBC: “I think terrorism is weaker than ever before. We’re better off today than before September 11.” . . . Federal spending rises nearly 9 percent in 2003, with discretionary spending up 12.5 percent. . . . “The most interesting thing is, Bush has not vetoed anything, let alone a spending program,” says former Republican director of Congressional Budget Office Rudolph G. Penner, in Washington Post. “One wonders how serious the White House is about holding the line.”

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D., W.Va.) on Democratic memo announcing plans to play politics on Senate intelligence committee, on MSNBC: “The memo is not a memo. The memo is just an option thing which staff prepared for me.” . . . Sen. Kit Bond (R., Mo.) on Rockefeller’s “option thing,” on CNN: “Nobody’s been fired for putting forward this blatant political effort. And this undermines the ability to do our job on a bipartisan basis to make sure we get the best intelligence available.” . . . Sen. Zell Miller (D., Ga.) on same, on Fox News: “I think heads should roll. We’re in war. You don’t aid and abet the enemy. You don’t inhibit or compromise intelligence at a time like this.” . . . Al Gore on Bush administration: “They have taken us much farther down the road toward an intrusive, Big Brother-style government — toward the dangers prophesied by George Orwell in his book 1984 — than anyone ever thought would be possible in the United States of America.” . . . Jimmy Carter on Guantánamo detainees, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “This is a violation of the basic character of my country, and it’s very disturbing to me”. . . . Ralph Nader, according to Associated Press: “I think the Democrats can be fairly charged with chronic whining, and they ought to look at themselves first and foremost.”

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In Newsweek poll, President Bush earns 52 percent approval rating. . . . Bush on Iraq casualties: “We mourn every loss. We honor every name. We grieve with every family. And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.” . . . More Bush: “Sixty years of Western nations’ excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe — because in the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.” . . . In NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 63 percent support U.S. military action removing Saddam Hussein from power. . . . Gov. Bill Owens (R., Colo.), on BBC: “I think terrorism is weaker than ever before. We’re better off today than before September 11.” . . . Federal spending rises nearly 9 percent in 2003, with discretionary spending up 12.5 percent. . . . “The most interesting thing is, Bush has not vetoed anything, let alone a spending program,” says former Republican director of Congressional Budget Office Rudolph G. Penner, in Washington Post. “One wonders how serious the White House is about holding the line.”

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D., W.Va.) on Democratic memo announcing plans to play politics on Senate intelligence committee, on MSNBC: “The memo is not a memo. The memo is just an option thing which staff prepared for me.” . . . Sen. Kit Bond (R., Mo.) on Rockefeller’s “option thing,” on CNN: “Nobody’s been fired for putting forward this blatant political effort. And this undermines the ability to do our job on a bipartisan basis to make sure we get the best intelligence available.” . . . Sen. Zell Miller (D., Ga.) on same, on Fox News: “I think heads should roll. We’re in war. You don’t aid and abet the enemy. You don’t inhibit or compromise intelligence at a time like this.” . . . Al Gore on Bush administration: “They have taken us much farther down the road toward an intrusive, Big Brother-style government — toward the dangers prophesied by George Orwell in his book 1984 — than anyone ever thought would be possible in the United States of America.” . . . Jimmy Carter on Guantánamo detainees, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “This is a violation of the basic character of my country, and it’s very disturbing to me”. . . . Ralph Nader, according to Associated Press: “I think the Democrats can be fairly charged with chronic whining, and they ought to look at themselves first and foremost.”