And I think he believes this is an important venue in which to begin making some of the points that we expect to come out over the next couple of days.

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And it, I think he believes it and I think its proof that he was the wrong person to be running Enron.

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"I think the reason he joined us is because he believes in what we are trying to do here and I do think he can still play a big part in that, " Southgate said.

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He thinks he can't kill himself because he believes in God, and I think that is very dangerous for the other drivers.

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So he strongly believes -- and I think you just heard him say this -- that leaders were elected to lead, to make hard choices, to compromise, and to take some flack for that compromise, because it requires tough choices.

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He has expressed a change of view in a number of venues, and I think that those conversations with State Department officials are about his view now of what he believes would be best for him and his family.

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But I think the President believes that he's struck the right tone, and as do others in the administration, as do others in the Republican Party, as do others in the Democratic Party.

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He selects, as I think the officeholders in his first administration and first Cabinet demonstrates, he selects men and women who he believes are the right individuals for the jobs to which they've been appointed.

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And all of that together represents -- would represent a big step forward, and I think the President believes that that would be an important facet of getting something ultimately to his desk that he can sign.

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