"William Beach" was an American politician from New York.

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I really think this is going to be one of those great moments in political history where we're not going to know whether it passes until the last moment.

[Heritage Foundation analyst William Beach, also a proponent of individual accounts, said it was reasonable for the White House to scale back its campaign.] There's a limit to how many times you can go out and make your pitch before it becomes so dull and repetitive, ... I suspect they feel like they're almost there.

We've put these very different plans into this model, and we got some results. And I guess the bottom line is that neither plan tanks the economy. In fact, both plans keep the economic growth moving forward.

I see no likelihood of that happening in my lifetime, sir.

Actually, they're coming down pretty fast.

There's a limit to how many times you can go out and make your pitch before it becomes so dull and repetitive. I suspect they feel like they're almost there.

The market is just so fickle, and skittish. Any little hiccup in the system will cause a jump in prices.

We're a little overdue.

From those measures you could sort of say, well, the Bush plan kind of edges out the Gore plan at the tape.