1.   The war, the president insists, is about higher principles than control of a grubby liquid in the ground.

2.   The president insisted that he was acting out of compassion, not opportunism.

3.   Asked about the delay in releasing the documents, the president insisted there was no effort to hide them.

4.   But in return the president insisted that the Democratic Party promise not to criticize the government.

5.   But in an interview on CBS, the president insisted that they were trying to force him into balancing it their way.

6.   Davis has criticized the Bush administration harshly for not capping soaring wholesale power costs, and the president has insisted that such caps would only worsen the power shortages.

7.   Most observers Friday expected Birmingham to run, even though the senate president insisted he was undecided because of the toll it would take on his family.

8.   Not so, the president insisted.

9.   On Bosnia, the president insisted that U.S. troops are coming home at his one-year deadline, whether the Dayton peace accord is fully implemented or not.

10.   Out mingling with real folk, the president insists he likes to be called Bill.