You're trying too hard to find a correlation here, ... You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.

There's been a huge focus on the Democratic primary, a lot of media coverage of those events ... huge amounts of money spent attacking the president.

Matters have just gotten more grave and more serious, ... Potentially, these fires could last into the fall, until we receive snow. We're planning for the worst of circumstances.

The bottom line here is I have some threshold and primary responsibilities as a father and a son that I need to address, and that's really the only explanation there is for the decision that was made.

Some of the fires are so hot, so challenging, that it's difficult for us to make any progress.

The administration knew about, that all of us have known about for a long period of time.

We have a lot of communities that are located in these forested area and we're going to have to focus on making sure that they're protected almost exclusively now because these forest fires have gotten so out of control.

Anyone that would politicize this issue, with the tragedy that's confronting the people of the West, virtually all of them, would be outrageous.

Blamed the deaths in Spain on President Bush and the war on terror.