For News Hounds, TGIF

"I'm not a numbers cruncher. I'm not one of these bean counters." -- March 25, 2002

"I'm not a stockbroker or a stock picker." -- July 29, 2002

"I'm not a very formal guy to begin with." -- June 9, 2003

"I'm not an Iraqi citizen." -- Dec. 22, 2003

"The president is not an economist." -- White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, March 13, 2001

"The president is not a rubber stamp for the Congress." -- Fleischer, July 10, 2002

"The president of the United States is not a fact-checker." -- a senior administration official, addressing reporters in the White House briefing room, July 18, 2003

Fog of War

"He volunteered to go to Vietnam."

-- Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot, yesterday, on National Public Radio

"No, I didn't."

-- President Bush, Feb. 8, responding to a question on NBC's "Meet the Press" about whether he volunteered to go to Vietnam