For the Record.(quotations from President Bush on the terrorist attack, and other topics)(includes other quotes from other sources)(Brief Article)

-- President Bush: "Our nation has experienced one of the darkest moments in our history." . . . "I gave them fair warning and they chose not to heed it." . . . "This will be a long war. It requires understanding and patience from the American people." . . . "I want Congress to hear loud and clear, it is unacceptable behavior to leak classified information when we have troops at risk." . . . Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld: "The cruise missiles and bombers are not going to solve this problem." . . . House majority leader Dick Armey, on Fox News: "We need to wipe these people out."

-- In CBS News poll, Bush approval rating at 90 percent. . . . GOP pollster Bill McInturff says presidential-approval numbers usually fall back to previous position within six months and always within one year. "The historic precedent is that by August of next year, Bush would be about back to where he was before all of this started," he tells Los Angeles Times. . . . In CNN/USA Today poll, Bush leads unnamed Democratic candidate 54 percent to 29 percent in mock 2004 election. . . . Sen. Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), in The Hill: "When you're sitting on 90 percent, there's only one way to go, and that's down." . . . White House chief of staff Andy Card discusses Bush, on PBS NewsHour: "His intellectual capacity is exceeding all expectations."

-- Attorney general John Ashcroft: "We are using every possible avenue to disrupt, interrupt, defer, delay, impede, impair, prevent terrorism in any number of settings." . . . Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: "We're likely to experience more restrictions on our personal freedom than has ever been the case in our country." . . . Sen. Richard Shelby (R., Ala.) on CIA director George Tenet, on Today: "I believe the job is getting away from him." . . . Unnamed CIA official on agency hamstrung by rules, in The New Yorker: "Are we serious about getting rid of the problem-instead of sitting around making diversity quilts?" . . . "I think that [1998 cruise missile attack] really helped elevate bin Laden's reputation in a big way, building him up in the Muslim world," Harlan Ullman of Center for Strategic and International Studies tells Washington Post. "My sense is that because the attack was so limited and incompetent, we turned this guy into a folk hero."

-- In Fabrizio, McLaughlin poll, 69 percent support giving Bush authority to order assassination of terrorist leaders. . . . In Gallup poll, 71 percent of blacks favor racial profiling of Arabs at airports, compared to 57 percent of whites. . . . Commission on Civil Rights chairman Mary Frances Berry on new discrimination hotline: "I think ...