“Actually, sir, I did have a job once, but I decided to quit while I was ahead.’’
■ In Fox News poll, President Bush earns 59 percent approval rating, and 65 percent say going to war in Iraq was “the right thing to do.” . . . Bush: “I’m confident that our search will yield that which I strongly believe: that Saddam had a weapons [of mass destruction] program.” . . . Deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz, on Fox News: “It is a sacrifice that is going to make our children and our grandchildren safer because the battle to win the peace in Iraq now is the central battle in the war on terrorism.” . . . Bush on Democratic filibusters: “These obstructionist tactics are unprecedented, unfair, and unfaithful to the Senate’s constitutional responsibility to vote on judicial nominees.” . . . Sen. Rick Santorum (R., Pa.) on filibusters, in Washington Post: “What we are seeing, de facto, from members of the other side is a religious test.” . . . Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) on whether Bush will be reelected, on Fox News: “You never take anything for granted in an election, number one. And number two is a lot of it’s going to depend on the economy. If the economy doesn’t improve, any incumbent is going to have some difficulties.”
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