LAURA BUSH:
Well, I mean, I just don't agree. I really don't agree. My – you never hear my husband say things that other members of other parties like you heard people say about him for the first six months of the Democrat primary — and during the Democratic primary, and I know that it is a very big disappointment of his because that was not how it was when he was governor in our home state. Democrats and Republicans worked together.
But I also think it's a symptom of what Washington is like now, and it started long before George became president. I think because of airlines, now a lot of congressmen and senators don't move to Washington, so they don't get to know their colleagues in a personal way; they don't go to Little League games together like they used to before airlines made it easy for people to get back to their districts.
And I think, you know, it started a long time before he was president, but I also know and I think everyone saw this, that Americans are really united in their love for their country.
And after Sept. 11, when all of us were reminded once again of how fortunate we are to be Americans and how many freedoms we enjoy because we are Americans, and what our responsibility is because we're Americans, there was a time in there when there was a lot of unity, and I really feel like underneath the political divisions there still is a lot of unity of Americans.
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