«If people want to try and politicize this process, that's their business.»

«We're continuing to move forward on it and they're going to talk about the importance of finalizing an agreement.»

«The president thought it was important to have these refresher briefings for all White House staff in light of recent circumstances. It is mandatory.»

«The president thought it was important to have these refresher briefings for all of the White House staff, in light of recent circumstances. All White House staff serves at the pleasure of the president.»

«There will be a discussion about classified information and the proper handling of classified national security information, how that material is classified, by whom, for how long, who has access to it, how the material is declassified, the badges that people wear to show their security clearances, and so forth. The briefings discuss the security precautions that are in place for handling classified information such as the use of safes or the use of specific locations to view classified information like the Situation Room here at the White House.»

«It's important for the private sector to be good corporate citizens and invest in the energy infrastructure. That means investing in expanding refining capacity. That means investing in pipelines to address some of these issues. That means supporting people in need.»

«I think any thorough analysis of the gubernatorial elections is going to show that the elections were decided on local and state issues and the candidates and their agendas. I do not think you can conclude it represents any larger trend whatsoever.»

«We have since called the court to inform them that the president has other commitments on Monday, and that he would like to reschedule his jury duty.»

«Early indicators of activity suggest that the growth of real gross domestic product, or GDP, during the four quarters of 2005 will be about 3.5 percent.»

«In 2006, real GDP is expected to be similar at 3.4 percent.»