But, on energy, there's no excuse, none, for the Democrats not to have a comprehensive plan they can get behind.

But, you know, what we're facing, you know, this squeeze on Iran, because, as -- as -- as President Bush really pushes now hard on trying to get Iran to behave, Iran does hold the oil card.

Seventy-one percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the country.

There were a lot of us who believed that, argued that. And we were -- you know, we were cavalierly dismissed: Oh, that's a stupid idea.

It's really late now.

It's rare that they do dig themselves out. We ought to understand that, once you get down this far, as Jimmy Carter learned, as -- as -- as George H.W. Bush learned, when he started crashing, and he couldn't -- he couldn't reverse it, it's…

I think timing is everything in politics, just as it in is love.

They have had an energy bill, you know, but it hasn't -- it wasn't a really serious energy bill. It wasn't a forward-looking energy bill.

Let's just go -- let's stay with the team. Let's go to our conservative base. Let's stay the course in Iraq.

It's much tougher to climb out now than it would have been six months -- had he done these changes, started changing things six months ago.

If they had done this back in the fall, this would have been a lot more effective.

I do think that Bolten will bring a much more sort of a -- he's going to bring a freshness to that.