Jake Siewert Quotations

Unfortunately, it looks like Congress is going to squander another day without getting any substantial work done.

Mr. Cheney was part of the 'Whip Inflation Now' team and he was part of a Bush administration that had a pretty anemic growth record, but that doesn't mean he's qualified to talk about the state of the economy today.

Obviously the war divided a lot of Americans. If anything, this is meant to heal those divisions and point the way toward a new future.

Certainly he's an experienced debater, and she said she's never done this before. I'm sure he's offered some advice.

We don't want to pre-judge how the next administration will proceed. We've been consulting with them all along.

We'll wait and see how it comes out in the Senate.

The president has stated that he'd like to stay and get the work done. But we'll take a look at whatever emerges from Congress at the end of the day.

The president will talk at some length about the history of our relationship, but more importantly about the future and where he sees that relationship going.

We put out a budget in February that lays out where we stand. It's hard to blame us for the fact that they are well behind on their work.

We will do what we can to be helpful. We will be talking to all the various campaigns. The president wants to play a role in the final two weeks of the election -- helping Democratic candidates around the country, from the vice president to the first lady to various congressional members.

We think this bill is critical to meet a national priority and the president is prepared to sign it into law because it is narrowly tailored to deal with litigation dealing with the Y2K problem.

The president made the decision on the merits.

We'll have to examine the details. But it is not clear that the provisions will actually help American farmers and others who want to sell food to Cuba.

We will not determine the timing of the vote.

The timing of it absolutely reeks, but given the past conduct and record of that office is not surprising.

They're the worst wildfires in 50 years and the president very much wanted to go out there and see the people working on them.

It's essentially the first organizing meeting of this council to prepare for a smooth transition.

California might be the exception to every rule. The president will spend time in California. He will be in California because it's a state where he has a lot of friends and a lot of people he'd like to help. . . . There are a lot of close races and the president will be there between now and election day.

He (Zedillo) leaves office with the admiration of the people of Mexico. The president told him that he should be proud of what he has accomplished there.