Dan Bartlett President Quotations

President Bush will show that the math speaks for itself. The bottom line is that the Social Security system, in 13 years, will be taking in less money than it's paying out. We'll go into the red.

President Bush gets his briefings from commanders on the ground. He has reason for his optimism because of the enormous amount of progress we have made.

President Bush and Mrs. Bush are saddened by the news. It's a tremendous loss for our nation.

President Bush and Mrs. Bush are deeply saddened by the news. It's a tremendous loss for our nation.

The president encountered and witnessed traffic for the first time in three years on the way to the airport.

When the president puts out a legislative and executive agenda, we'll make sure we reflect the fact that it's difficult for Congress to get anything done in an election year.

We've had a good week. We feel like the president heads out of the country on a strong note.

What President Bush will outline is not only an agenda for America, but, obviously, an agenda for his own party to provide an optimistic forward-looking set of proposals.

Oftentimes, people look at these challenges and only see those challenges. The president sees opportunities, and the history of our country shows that America always does best when we are shaping the events of the world, not being shaped by them.

There will be a sustained hands-on presence from the president on down, across the board of his administration for the foreseeable future.

There were shortcomings. There were breakdowns in communication, things that we shouldn't be tolerating in our country in a post-9/11 world, and President Bush takes responsibility and accountability for that.

The federal government stands ready to work with state and local officials to secure New Orleans and the state of Louisiana. The president will not let any form of bureaucracy get in the way of protecting the citizens of Louisiana.

His goal is to organize things so as best to serve the president in the remaining 1, 000 days of his term.