Joe Lockhart Quotes

"The tax is set at what the Congress and the president believe is an appropriate level to help."

"The president thought this was the right time to bring both leaders to Washington to try to move the peace process forward."

"You can spend way too much time talking about things like optimism, pessimism, what your hopes are,"

"There are times when no matter what you do it seems to blow up in your face, whether it's self-inflicted or inflicted from the outside."

"We have a real emergency here. The president believes it's unfortunate that Congress has sent down legislation that isn't clean."

"And as they move forward, they should keep in the back of their minds that there may be consequences for them when this is over,"

"And that having gone through it, turn 180 degrees in the other direction and say, it's so important, it's so important to this country and it's so damaging that the president should resign. I think, I think that that is a strategy that betrays partisanship and cynicism,"

"Both sides came here with a real sense that they wanted to reach an agreement, ... They have spent a lot of time together, they have spent very little time sleeping. There are 52 years of debate behind them, so the atmosphere, at times, has been tense, but they are still working at it."

"I think the fact that the two leaders are meeting is extraordinarily important as far as direct contact and discussions between North and South Korea. We were heartened to see the warm welcome that President Kim received."

"I think that it won't add any new information and can be put in the category of a stunt."

"The White House has not been informed of anyone planning to leave,"

"this great achievement both for NASA and for Senator Glenn."

"This action is intended to, in combination with our NATO allies, to assist front-line states such as Macedonia in dealing with tremendous burdens they have incurred in recent days with the flow of refugees out of Kosovo."

"We've been officially reassured at a high level that Russia will not be drawn into the conflict into the Balkans."

"ways to strengthen peace and stability, deepen democracy and civil society and promote economic reforms."

"Despite the problems with the ceremonial events, the substantive work goes on, ... Our team believes we've made some progress today."

"pleased the operation moved forward in a peaceful fashion."

"The president has been very deeply involved in this. He's talked to the leaders dozens of times and believes strongly that we are at a historic point where we have an opportunity for peace."

"It was all of their work. It was their legal analysis and their tax analysis that formed the foundation of the pardon. So ... it is incorrect to say that they were part of the pardon application. That was something that [Rich attorney] Jack Quinn did. But it was all of their work that persuaded the president that he ought to grant the pardon."

"I think the fact that the two leaders are meeting is extraordinarily important as far as direct contact and discussions between North and South Korea. We were heartened to see the warm welcome that President Kim received,"