Let me put it negatively. If in the questioning that you did in a proposed, hypothetical future merger...

In the depth indicators, has there been an embracing of this concept? Is it working?

I am very much supportive of and know that there are transitional issues here, but one that I think in the long run will serve investors and the providers of investment services great advantage over the long run.

I would encourage, though, that when one looks at whether decimalization is working, and I use it as a generalization, we want to be careful that one doesn't confuse a different market environment for the diminishment of liquidity versus…

Has the concept of block trading been affected by the decimalization, which gets at much of the depth issue.

Is there anecdotal evidence of charges of stepping ahead, or front-running, by small increments to break up trading patterns?

We have a capacity crisis in our nation's aviation infrastructure, and unless we build new runways and build them faster than we are now, aviation gridlock will become a permanent feature of air travel.

I look forward to working with you both at the Department of Transportation, and I take pleasure in supporting both your nominations.

I believe I have an open mind regarding trade, but I have a very parochial concern.

It is intolerable to have this taking place. Yet, it is Africa, so what happens?

We must help the world that wants to be free.

If we want them to do the people's work, then we must give them the resources they need to do it.

We have underfunded our facilities. We have neglected our infrastructure. We need to do better.

I think it really wants to be better tied to the United States.

I would hope that now we would broaden that relationship and say we will lift the economic sanctions that we have on India.

it is with great admiration that I recognize these members of the U.S. Paralympic team.

It gives America a chance to recognize our sons and daughters who have enriched our lives, made us laugh, made us think, made us cry, lifted us up when we were down.

This year's winners of the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal defined in their own unique ways a part of who we are as a people and what we're about as a nation as we enter a new century and a new millennium.