In The Zero-sum Budget Game,

Winning In Afghanistan Is Having A Country That Is Stable Enough To Ensure That There Is No Safe Haven For Al Qaida Or For A Militant Taliban That Welcomes Al Qaida. That's Really The Measure Of Success For The United States.

We Are A Nation At War. This Is Also A Time For Hard Choices. It's About Ensuring That We Are Able To Prevail In The Conflicts In Which We Are Now Engaged. But It's Also About Being Able To Be Strong And Disciplined In Applying Our Nation's Limited Resources To Defending America.

I Don't Engage In Hypotheticals.

The President Is Out There Today Trying To Talk About Health Care, And The Reality Is Nobody Cares About What He's Saying On Health Care Because This News Is Consuming Everything. No President Could Tolerate That Or Should Tolerate It.

One Demonstration Of Extremists, Any More Than A Ku Klux Klan Demonstration In The United States, Is Not Necessarily Reflective Of What The Rest Of The Country Feels.