"One of the mythologies, is that it was the vice president that somehow was pulling the strings on foreign policy in the first term and made it very ideologically driven and that somehow in the second term, the vice president's influence is in decline and, therefore, somehow the real Bush has come forward, and we have a more pragmatic foreign policy. That's just hooey -- it's just hooey."
-- Bush National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, in an interview with the Washington Post.
"One of the mythologies, is that it was the vice president that somehow was pulling the strings on foreign policy in the first term and made it very ideologically driven and that somehow in the second term, the vice president's influence is in decline and, therefore, somehow the real Bush has come forward, and we have a more pragmatic foreign policy. That's just hooey -- it's just hooey."
-- Bush National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, in an interview with the Washington Post.