For the Record.(Brief Article)(Column)

-- In Fox News poll, President Bush's job-approval rating at 77 percent. Bush tours DMZ in South Korea, learns that axes used by North Koreans to kill two servicemen in 1976 are displayed in Communist museum: "No wonder I think they're evil." Bush, in address carried live on Chinese television: "Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared. In a free society, diversity is not disorder. Debate is not strife. And dissent is not revolution. A free society trusts its citizens to seek greatness in themselves and their country." Bush on welfare reform: "Many Americans, in Bob Woodson's words, were injured by the helping hand. The welfare system became an enemy of individual effort and responsibility, with dependence passed from one generation to the next." Bush on Social Security reform: "I want America to be an ownership society, a society where a life of work becomes a retirement of independence." Bush stumps for Senate candidate Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina: "Somebody said to me the other day or actually asked me today, Am I going to campaign? And here we are in war. Do you think it's all right for the president to go campaign? I said, 'Yes, I do.'" Washington speculates on which Bush cabinet member will be first to resign, with attention focused on Norm Mineta at Transportation, Paul O'Neill at Treasury, and Tommy Thompson at Health and Human Services.

-- Deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz: "There is still a great deal of work to be done. I do fear the country has not absorbed that the conflict is far from over." Tom Daschle criticizes war on terrorism: "I don't think the success has been overstated but the continued success, I think, is still very much in doubt."White House press secretary Ari Fleischer: "It's never easy to guess what the motives are of the loyal opposition. Obviously, there's going to be politics involved. Some people may want to run for president." Jimmy Carter on Bush's "axis of evil" statement: "The comment was overly simplistic and counterproductive. I think it will take years before we can repair the damage done by that statement." Sen. Robert Byrd (D., W.Va.): "If we expect to kill every terrorist in the world, that's going to keep us going beyond doomsday. How long can we afford this?" Wall Street Journal publisher Peter Kann on the killing of reporter Daniel Pearl: "His murder is an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of everything Danny's kidnappers claimed to believe in. They claimed to be Pakistani nationalists, but their actions must surely bring shame to all true Pakistani patriots." In CBS News poll, 74 percent approve U.S. attack to try to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Also, 59 percent ...