So Iknowthatsometimes politics can be discouraging, and especially Washington politics can be discouraging, and it can seem small and it can seem petty.
And Iknowthatsometimes you have to go through a little fuss to have me as a guest speaker. (Laughter.) So let me apologize in advance for all the fuss.
And Iknowthatsometimes all this squabbling in Washington seems very abstract, and in the abstract, people like the idea, there must be some spending we can cut, there must be some waste out there.