185 days to go

"We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers."
     —Houston, TX; September 6, 2000

330 days to go

"For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times."
     —Tokyo, Japan; February 18, 2002

I can't imagine what Japanese citizens thought of this idiotic remark.