Gallup's April 18-21, 2005 national survey of 1,003 randomly selected Americans included this simple question: "If you could talk with President George W. Bush for fifteen minutes and give him advice about anything that's on your mind, what would you tell him?"
Frank Newport reported the findings in a story titled If You Had 15 Minutes with President Bush...
The following are verbatim responses to that survey question. (Note: Gallup edited these responses for language.)
Pay more attention to the trade deficit. Male, age 46
Individual freedoms. Male, age 21
Keep up the good job. Male, age 41
Our troops being there and fighting for our country and how we want them to be home to be with their families just like I'm with my family. Gas prices and our economy. Female, age 20
Keep following the Lord. Female, age 23
Fix the Social Security. Female, age 28
I would tell him we've got to leave Iraq. We've got to seal off our borders, it's getting to be a burden on our
economy, and bring in terrorists--the day of the open door policy is over. Male, age 53
That the neo-conservatives are liars. They used 911 to attack Iraq. www.stopthelie.com would be useful to look at. Male, age 35
Increase our border security. Male, age 72
Gas prices and actually and middle class citizen's and not wealthy constituents. Female, age 38
Talk to him mostly about the military, tell him to support them as much as he can, increase the military. Male, age 20
Get the Social Security problem straightened out. Lower taxes. Lower fuel. Female, age 57
Keep doing what you're doing. Male, age 60
Get tougher on China. Male, age 68
The war, stem cell research, separation of church and state. Female, age 62
That he's an idiot because he turned the surplus to the deficit. Female, age 35
Leave Social Security alone. Female, age 58
Your economic and tax policies are leading this country to a further division between the have's and the have not's! This will be a disaster for our country. Sacrificing fundamental civil liberties to pander to the religious right is what he is doing and he should stop. Male, age 55
The big thing I want to discuss is securing our boarders and getting illegal immigrants. Female, age 66
Figure out a way to get out of Iraq, fix the American economy first. Female, age 53
I guess take care of the senior citizens Social Security. Some kind of break for the poor folks. Male, age 54
To get private accounts in Social Security. Male, age 78
Tell him my ideas, the war in Iraq is unnecessary, the lives that were lost on both sides could have been avoided, the war also affects the economy. Male, age 65
I would tell him to do a good job. Female, age 90
Work on a tax bill and education bills. Male, age 77
Needs to fix our health insurance problems. Female, age 58
Stop the (swear word) war. Male, age 56
Increase jobs. Male, age 51
I guess it would have to be dealing with budget cuts. Male, age 38
I think we need a speedy evacuation of the Iraq war, we need to get out of there and let them get on with their ability to govern themselves, and pretty much take care of what we need done at home. Male, age 51
That I'm a senior citizen and need my drug program taken care of. Male, age 66
I don't know. Female, age 42
I don't like the way he's doing Social Security. Not leaving any children behind. Don't give foreign countries so much money. Female, age 63
Just be more understanding and compassionate. Male, age 66
War was a mistake, fighting over oil, people losing their lives, rethink what you've done, pull troops out of Iraq. Male, age 40
To pay more attention to the importance of science and his advisors in certain fields. Male, age 58
Something about the Social Security. Female, age 72
Wish war could end. Gas prices should go down. Female, age 29
To get down and live with the people I work with each day, the poor, the needy, the average Joe and elderly. I'm a volunteer, I work with all these people. Female, age 76
Get our troops out of Iraq. Use the money being spent in Iraq and work on the awful problems in this country. Female, age 58
The bill that he's about to pass for bankruptcy, why is he letting the wealthy people right their debt off and making the people who make less than $24,000 pay their debts back when they file bankruptcy? Female, age 51
Do something about the big corporations taking all the money and the poor people being left. Female, age 77
Get out of Iraq. Focus more on health care and education. To heck with what is going on with the rest of the world. I am tired of being the world's policeman. Male, age 56
To keep the American jobs in America. Female, age 36
Try and get the economy back and get some of the jobs that we have lost overseas. Male, age 73
Bring the boys home from Iraq. Female, age 70
The economy, the war. Female, age 87
I'd probably tell him that I think the troops in Iraq are doing a good job and not to be blaming them for things. Female, age 72
He should try to manage things based on facts not on his heart and beliefs. Fix something with the economics. There is nothing wrong with Social Security. Male, age 40
Deal with the problems in the U.S. instead of other places. Female, age 20
Get us out of Iraq. Female, age 49
Bring prices down on everything, the services and food and everything we buy has gone up so much!. Female, age 79
Get out of Iraq. Female, age 84
I think it's probably the...be steadfast and be sure of what we're doing in Iraq and in the rest of the world. Stick with his principles. Male, age 68
War in Iraq. His views on education. Female, age 49
Stop listening to the Christian right and Karl Rove. Male, age 30
Find a cure for AIDS. Male, age 52
Pull the troops out. Don't like how it is in Iraq. Male, age 19
That if he is a real Christian that he should do what God would really want. Female, age 42
Lower gasoline prices and to bring troops home from Iraq. Female, age 75
Take care of people's health care in this country. Male, age 37
The Iraq war--getting our soldiers home. Children, what they do in the world. Getting hold of our teenagers. Male, age 60
Do something about Medicare. Male, age 69
That he should mind his own business more and leave Israel to solve their own problems. Female, age 82
Get rid of the neo-conservatives around him. Male, age 66
Figure out how to lower the gas prices. Female, age 39
Read the constitution, and remember he swore to uphold it, he says he deeply believes in the importance. Read election returns again and remember you have a slim win, not a mandate. Male, age 59
Illegals. Male, age 71
Be able to meet wages for increase in economy. Getting people out of Iraq. Male, age 39
Let's go hunting! Male, age 60
Why do we have hungry people here? And we try to feed the rest of the world rest of the world. Female, age 45
Leave Social Security alone and bring our soldiers back. Female, age 73
He is shifting his tax burden to the wrong part of society. Male, age 41
To get the economy better and create more jobs. Male, age 46
I would probably attempt the constitutional amendment, banning gay marriages was probably not acting in the spirit of the law. Male, age 23
Need to focus energy on our country instead of outside our country. Female, age 55
Fuel prices. Male, age 35
Try to do something about the tremendous trade deficit between us and the rest of the world! Particularly between us and China. Male, age 58
Go back to Texas. Male, age 48
Social Security. Gas. Female, age 70
Needs to do something about the cost of fuel. Male, age 43
Fund education. Better health care. Female, age 28
Retire. Female, age 52
The war in Iraq--better research earlier on would have been more appropriate. Female, age 35
Continue to pray. Male, age 37
I think oil prices are getting out of hand. Male, age 29
More about domestic issues. The United Nation is trying to get everyone on the same accord. Female, age 32
Quit robbing our country. Female, age 45
Congress and the government is spending too much money. Male, age 60
Where can I find a job? Female, age 50
To get out of office. Female, age 76
Tell him to be honest and stop trying to make money off the oil and to get out of Iraq. Male, age 55
Keep on plucking away and see where it leads. Male, age 85
First of all we better do something with our judicial system. Judges are out of control, eliminate the filibusters. Foreign stuff he's doing okay, the economy doesn't look real hot. I'd like him to do stuff with energy, gas prices are affecting us all. Male, age 63
Pull out of Iraq!. Female, age 29
Talk about the wages and jobs of America. Close our borders to immigrants. Female, age 35
Drop the gas prices. Don't take away from education. Female, age 70
I would like to tell him how our government treats the elderly and they feed the foreigners and we have elderly in our community that are hungry. Female, age 71
Social Security, I wish he'd leave it alone. Male, age 75
I would talk to him about sending the boys off to Iraq. Female, age 59
Do something to get gas prices lowered. Male, age 39
He (swear word) on a lot of domestic problems. Male, age 44
I'm a teacher, I'd talk to him about education. We don't need more money in education, we need someone to manage the money better. School boards aren't working. We need someone to manage the money with common sense. Female, age 27
Ask him to drop this plan for Social Security. Bring the troops home. Female, age 47
Medical. Insurance. Male, age 34
Keep a steady course, the way it's going and relax. Male, age 40
Get the (swear word) out of Iraq. Male, age 48
That I support his feelings for reform and the frivolous lawsuits against doctors and such, the fact that lawyers are filing ridiculous lawsuits against the medical field, this is a big factor of increasing medical costs. Male, age 57
He is trying to change the world to make it what he wants it to be and trying to finish the job his dad didn't. Male, age 42
Agree with the Social Security system. Pay raise in Alabama. Gas prices are getting ridiculous. Male, age 21
Gas prices. Female, age 26
Lighten up and recognize he is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Male, age 75
Persevere with his appointees that have not yet been voted on. Female, age 37
The war was wrong. Male, age 57
There's too many people in this country. There should be something done about illegal immigration. Male, age 62
Like to see Social Security left alone. Male, age 72
Judicial nominations. Environmental laws and the newest budget bill. Abstinence education that doesn't teach about contraceptives, I disagree with abstinence education. Male, age 22
Do not privatize Social Security. Male, age 70
Indian casinos, in favor of. Female, age 24
To continue steadfast in leading the nation in a way that will honor God. Male, age 39
I would talk to him about better child support enforcement. Female, age 38
Southern borders: watch the southern borders! Male, age 52
Good job, good Christian man. Female, age 65
Do something to help the senior citizens and the poor people and in our country. Female, age 56
Bring home the troops and quit lying to us. Male, age 55
I'd talk to him about the Mexican border. Male, age 36
Discuss his conservative leanings toward women's rights and the environment, the environment versus the economy. Female, age 41
Questions about the war and his plans on getting out of Iraq. Female, age 47
Welfare of baby boomers as they get into later years, heath insurance, prescriptions, housing and other special needs. Female, age 51
Don't agree about being there in the war. Male, age 68
I would say stop spending money somewhere else and spend it here at home not have a cap on Social Security, my biggest issue is the war we got into and we don't need to be in it and that it is time to get our people out of there, stop spending the money out there. Female, age 45
Get out of office. Female, age 78
Get rid of NASA because it's kind of (swear word) up our jobs around here. Male, age 39
Economy is horrible and I disagree with the war in Iraq, take care of our own first. Female, age 24
To do something about all of the jobs overseas. Male, age 60
Lottery intake supposed to go to education and it isn't. Where is it going? Female, age 70
Keep up the good work. We're praying for you. God bless you--don't listen to all the left wing extremists. Female, age 41
He needs to take care of health care. Female, age 55
The war with Iraq, I disapprove of that. Male, age 60
To support the older people because they are the only ones that are going to be working. Young kids got no work ethic whatsoever. To help with prescriptions. To make sure that the older people have food to eat instead of cat food. Female, age 56
Bring fuel prices down. Female, age 71
Be careful with everything overseas. Male, age 55
Leave that Social Security alone. Male, age 56
Don't mess with Social Security. Male, age 79
Social Security. Taxes. The influx of aliens. Female, age 75
How he's so fixed in his ideas and thoughts, he might bend a little bit and listen, he might be too sure of himself. Male, age 67
I would tell him not to send all our money overseas and keep it here and I think we're spending way too much money over there and not enough here. Part of our military police force, we almost need to go back to isolated nation way back before World War I, take care of home first before we go anywhere else. Male, age 45
Social Security, he needs to leave it alone and like it is, also the economy is not very good. He needs to do something about these high gas prices. Female, age 61
Try to do something about the price of oil which he probably has little to do with. Try to do something about runaway inflation. Don't let our jobs go to other countries. Male, age 61
I'd probably tell him he's doing a pretty good job, just hang in there and get the oil prices down. Male, age 77
More of our tax dollars should go to education and to the care of low income children. No child should ever go hungry! Each child is entitled to a good education! I would like to see that level of education extend to four years of college for each child! Female, age 57
Pull the troops out for sure. Male, age 29
The economy. Male, age 36
Concentrate on the Americans at home instead of across the world. Female, age 64
I think I wouldn't have much advice, I think he is doing a good job. Male, age 72
Not to mess with Social Security. Male, age 71
I think he should give more thought to the Social Security plan, he should listen to the people. Female, age 89
Do something with the gas prices. Male, age 30
Affordable housing. Male, age 42
Get something going with the Social Security or the health, put that the plug back in Terri Schiavo and let her live, ordered a doctor to put it back in, find bin Laden. Female, age 51
Clean up our backyard before going overseas. Gas prices too high. Prescriptions are too high. Male, age 67
I would say be honest with people. Female, age 55
Help the senior citizens. Female, age 67
I wish he would probably pay more attention to people in the middle and lower middle classes, he tends to favor the rich. Male, age 33
Close the borders and beef up the national defense. Male, age 35
I would thank him for the war effort and the success we've had in Iraq. I'd take up issue with the way he is handling immigration. I would like to see people being able to invest their own money as far as Social Security goes. Male, age 44
We need more people to help other people in day programs. Female, age 45
I don't know. Female, age 26
The issues with security of the country, Social Security. Medical treatments for those that couldn't afford it. Female, age 62
Put more worry about the people in the U.S. instead of giving money to the other countries, we need it here. Male, age 32
Tell him to get gas prices down. Male, age 72
The war in Iraq. Female
Get the troops out of Iraq. Stop messing with Social Security. Male, age 38
I would tell him to change his foreign policy and to allocate more money to social programs and schools. Male, age 22
Get out of Iraq while he can save face for our nation. Male, age 59
Don't try and wreck Social Security. You can tweak it but you can change it too much. Female, age 77
If he spent the same amount on doing good in the poor countries by giving purifying water systems and better education and helping hospitals as he spends on the war then the terrorists would take care of themselves. Female, age 75
To keep doing what he is doing in Iraq. To focus on homeland security. Female, age 58
More money for education. Male, age 57
I wish he wouldn't continue the war in Iraq. It's not necessary. Female, age 73
Social Security and the war. Female, age 32
Fault for starting the war. Male, age 89
That we ought to handle Iraq differently and he should stay out of things like Terri Schiavo. Female, age 49
Keep pushing for the Social Security program. Female, age 48
Foreign policy and domestic policy. Female, age 44
Income taxes are way out of line, so many taxes don't get collected from people who cheat. Now is the time to do away with income taxes, go to a national sales tax. Ask him to go forward with his Social Security proposal, not a crisis right now, will be in next 10 years. Frivolous lawsuits that are way out of line, we need to get his judges he wants to confirm, need to get an up or down vote on his nominees. Male, age 49
Please help the mentally handicapped and the people on Social Security, give them a better life, make it easier for us to get our medications and better health care, that is for all people on Social Security, mentally and handicapped, and the seniors, and help the homeless. Male, age 42
Strengthening our borders. Female, age 45
Leave Social Security alone. Female, age 79
The war in Iraq. Male, age 27
Social Security and the next war, get more countries to help him. Male, age 57
I do not like the way they did the Terri Schiavo thing. Female, age 70
Stop the war. Female, age 24
I am not happy with what he is doing with my Social Security. Female, age 83
I would talk to him about the Middle East and that would probably take the fifteen minutes. Male, age 37
There's so many different things that need to be fixed, do something about employment to let them stay here. Social Security doesn't work. Male, age 74
Close the border. Male, age 64
Why did you run again? Male, age 31
Make people who do their jobs in government accountable. Pay less money to government jobs. Male, age 34
Turn to the U.S. and deal with what's here, stop trying to bully the smaller countries. Give Africa some jobs, you see made in Taiwan, made in Japan, give some of these smaller countries some work. Male, age 36
Border situation. Male, age 59
Gas prices too high. Male, age 37
Ask about the stock market. Male, age 75
I would urge him to double his efforts to reform Social Security including personal accounts. I would include praise for the liberation of Afghanistan and Iraq and the democracy movement inspired by that. Male, age 54
He better straighten up the medical situation and he better dot it fast. Female, age 74
About gay marriages and Social Security. Female, age 42
Not to change the Social Security system. Male, age 55
Like to have the economy a little better. Male, age 77
Figure out how we can get our soldiers out of Iraq. Work on throwing at the Tsunami and borrow money for our own countries. Male, age 36
I think world policies are a little more important than he makes it, making us isolated, that the globe, the whole world not just countries or our country is important, it doesn't matter what information he gets, he has already made his decision, he is looking. Female, age 46
Keep up the good work, keep Christ in the center of things and things will be good. Female, age 64
Concentrate more on the working people. Way too many homeless people, got to be something that can be done. Male, age 43
Not necessary to go to Middle East and blow up peoples homes like civilians. Homeless rate the U.S. is far too high for us to spend on WMD. Education here in the U.S. is so far behind other countries and this should be a governmental issue not just state to state. Female, age 22
Keep doing his job. Female, age 44
I'd say that I'm disappointed that he hasn't been indicted for war crimes. Male, age 56
I think we would do lots better if we would end the war. We are too far in debt and are chasing too many problems. I think he deals with people who are not religious as second class citizens. Male, age 65
American people aren't stupid and stop talking to us like we are. Female, age 70
Keep the border people out, Mexicans. Female, age 89
He needs to take the borders into consideration more and less bickering with in the government and national security. Male, age 45
I would want to point out inconsistencies in what he says and does. Female, age 59
Bring our boys home. Female, age 69
My opinions of course of how I feel about what he is doing about the war. Male, age 45
Ask him how long the war is going to last. Female, age 22
To get rid of the illegal aliens. Female, age 58
That they get out of Iraq. Male, age 62
War in Iraq. Mishandling of energy corporation. No emphasis on environmental conservation. Male, age 57
Issues in Iraq and Social Security. Female, age 30
Probably talk about education. Protecting women's rights. Female, age 32
Whatever it takes to get this Iraq deal over with, he was concerned for American people, feel he's doing a good job, 110 percent, I know what it takes. I'm ex military. Germans and French could go to (swear word). Male, age 72
Leave Social Security alone. Bring our boys back from Iraq. Male, age 70
Get us out of the war! Female, age 43
Why isn't the Mexican border shut down and why isn't the illegals deported. Why is bin Laden living in this country? Male, age 73
Social Security and health issues for us retirees and the generation behind us. When people come in from Cuba and get Social Security and then we don't get our fair share. The war is like another Vietnam war. Female, age 58
He doing a (swear word) of a good job and keep fighting those democrats. Male, age 78
Get his autograph. Regarding the wmd; feel lied to; what did he really know? Saddam might have been bad to his own people; but don't feel that was enough or worth going to war over; was not worth one American life; would like all troops home as soon as possible, not some four-year exit strategy; home by Thanksgiving at least. Male, age 25
To keep on with the fight on terrorism. Male, age 65
Stop the war. Female, age 34
Issues of border security. Male, age 31
Talk about oil prices. Female, age 34
Price of fuel. Iraq. Male, age 39
Immigration is a significant issue, North Korea, and Iran. Male, age 65
He needs to leave Social Security alone, because that's how I live. Female, age 68
When will we get out of Iraq? Female, age 38
Do something about the high price of gas. Male, age 51
He's doing a great job and how he's trying to get one house undivided. Male, age 46
I'd probably go to jail for the rest of my life. Female, age 77
Social Security. Male, age 40
Tell him to let troops back to America, blow up them up and make gas cheap, give money to homeless instead to other countries. Male, age 40
He needs to do something about the homelessness. He needs to do something about rent control. He needs to bring the prices of homes in this country down to a level where people can afford them again -- can afford the American dream. Female, age 56
Too much hand-holding of the Iraqis and the Middle East. Our war in Iraq is not supported by me. Our disbursements of money in America are unequal; the 2% of Americans have too much of the money. Male, age 49
Make sure veterans have good benefits. Continue to be concerned with pro-life issues. Try to preserve Social Security and tax incentives for small business. Female, age 49
He is doing a good job and hopes he gets the Social Security bill. Bring soldiers home. Female, age 78
We need to do a little bit better job for healthcare for middle class and education. Female, age 43
First of all, I'm very opposed to the Iraq war; I don't know why we entered a sovereign nation and have no plans for retreat. I am concerned with the inflation and job loss in this country. The inequality of a balance of trade; we have a deficit, I'm concerned about the debt we are leaving our children. Female, age 73
Social Security. Female, age 57
Social Security reform. Female, age 43
Healthcare for the working poor (swear word). The working poor is a forgotten class. Female, age 42
First, I would ask that he address the rising fuel prices. I'd ask him to address healthcare costs, would ask him to be more open-minded about other people's opinions and points of view. I would like to see him address the North Korean nuclear situation more. Male, age 25
No reason for gas and diesel to be as high as they are. We don't need to lend money to countries that we know will never pay it back. Male, age 45
Lower the gas prices. Male, age 45
To focus on the future of his country. Stop lying to the American people. Resign. Male, age 39
Try to get the Social Security proposal passed. Female, age 33
Send them boys home from war. Female, age 66
To get out of Iraq. Female, age 50
Get out of Iraq. Male, age 59
I would probably have to talk to him about the welfare system. Female, age 36
To stop working so hard to change Social Security. Female, age 93
I'd talk about Iraq and how things are going there. Male, age 48
I would tell him that economic issues have me ruffled with him on war against terrorism. Male, age 26
Social Security. Male, age 37
I would tell him that I think he's doing a good job, that I think he should keep up the good work, probably that the Social Security things won't work out for him and I agree that he should bring the troops home. I believe he's a person of integrity; he's shown us that you can be successful. Female, age 55
Get oil from a place other than a place that hates us. Male, age 29
Money issue 96. Female, age 33
Get the (swear word) out of Iraq. Male, age 51
I would talk to him about the insurance and the Social Security. Female, age 56
Try to get things back on the moral track. Male, age 43
Get out of Iraq. Male, age 35
I would tell him that he needs to stop pandering to corporate interests and his oil buddies. I really do believe he is generating another Vietnam War and we really do need to get our kids the (swear word) out of there. How many times his mother had to slap that smirk off his face.Female, age 42
They should bring boys home from Iraq. Female, age 76
To get our troops out of Iraq. Female, age 19
Immigration -- illegal. Do something about leaky borders. Male, age 36
Needs to develop different strategy for Iraq. Work on reducing the deficit even if it means raising taxes. Different environmental strategy. Male, age 58
Stop the illegal immigrants. Female, age 75
Tell him to pray to god, and try to do the best he can. Female, age 42
Leave Social Security alone. Male, age 62
Leave Social Security and retirement alone. I approve of Iraq. Male, age 39
Encourage him, give wisdom, disagree with the borders, tell him to be strong in his authority, not to be influenced by media, and need more judges who enforce written laws, instead of trying to make laws, mainly stay firm. Female, age 78
Economic issues. Male, age 50
Social Security: I don't like the way he is going about working with it. Leave it alone! I don't like what you are doing in Iraq. It is a big mistake. It is a shame that our soldiers are getting killed and millions of our dollars are going over there to rebuild Iraq instead of using it on our poor people in this country. Female, age 68
He shouldn't have sold us out. That is exactly what he did. Male, age 47
Healthcare would be number one thing, I'd talk to him about trade deficit, Iraq the next thing, ask him to stop scaring the country. Male, age 35
to get us out of Iraq. Male, age 18
Tell him to get the religious people in the media off of people's backs, it's like we are reverting to the 1950s. Male, age 24
More about the immigration, about the illegals coming over more. I have no prejudice against any race whatsoever, but it has gotten out of hand. Female, age 78
To drop the Social Security plan. Female, age 29
Increase the cost of living. Increase jobs and wages, increase Medicaid for elderly. Female, age 37
I'd like to see him do a better job on immigration, controlling the border, tightening up security. Male, age 61
Save Social Security, give us a fair-warning scheme about socialization, and get out of Iraq. Female, age 52
Continue doing whatever he has to do to stop terrorism in the country. Female, age 56
Stop the war over there in Iraq and help the people over here that need help. Male, age 61
Get out of Iraq and leave Social Security alone. Female, age 60
Leave Social Security alone and get out of Iraq. Male, age 67
Would tell him about the Social Security. Going to war in Iraq when they didn't have weapons of mass destruction. The economy and jobs. Female, age 65
Job well done. Female, age 61
About medical coverage. Female, age 35
He just signed a new entitlement program into law which was ridiculous. Balance the budget. Female, age 52
My biggest thing is welfare -- some need it and some abuse it. I think that they should have to pay the system back -- I think a percentage of the payout should be put back in. Female, age 49
Get the troops out of Iraq. Female, age 20
Advise him to resign and give up job to someone more qualified. Male, age 49
Go home and sit down. Female, age 67
Income taxes. Female, age 49
I have no issue that I could cover within 15 minutes with the president. Male, age 62
Leave Social Security alone. Female, age 67
Something about Iraq, finish it and get out. Male, age 24
Keep on doing what he's doing. Male, age 62
Ask him about the border between Mexico and the U.S. Female, age 67
Don't spend so much money. Don't rely on polls like Clinton did. Male, age 65
End this war! Female, age 58
Get out of Iraq, leave Middle East alone, import oil, work on Social Security, and stop meddling. Male, age 64
Try to improve the environment. Female, age 82
Stop wasting money. Male, age 48
He needs to do something about economy, the price of gas, and take care of business at home first. Male, age 60
It'd be on the subject of illegal immigrants. Male, age 66
Put the Congress on Social Security don't let them have their private plan. Male, age 49
Get things organized in Iraq and get the troops home. Try to get the oil prices down. Female, age 47
Take care of our country a little bit too! I agree with what you are doing overseas, but you need to pay more attention to the needs of those of us in the U.S. too! I think he is the worst president we've ever had and I think he is only interested in making money for his friends. Male, age 62
Pull out of Iraq. Male, age 78
Try to make some alliance with the new pope. Lead some sort of religious alliance to isolate these Islamic fundamentalists so everyone would understand terrorism is wrong. They call them freedom fighters but they aren't. Male, age 62
Drilling for oil in the Florida and California coasts, it's a good thing for the nation. Male, age 71
You can't force another country to be democratic, and bring our boys home. Male, age 39
Budget deficit. Male, age 39
Social Security does not need to be privatized. Female, age 64
One of the things keeping prices down. Fuel prices. Male, age 42
The gasoline prices. Female, age 36
Keep on taking the stands that he's taking. Female, age 58
Public education (funding, etc.). Male, age 32
Keep going away with his plans for Social Security. Female, age 39
He would have to change his tactics, people are suffering in Iraq, they should come home. Social Security -- disagree with that. Female, age 61
Maybe work on his image when it comes to his speaking ability and things like that. Male, age 27
He needs to get out of Iraq and let people be who they want to be (gay marriage). Male, age 19
New Social Security plan. Female, age 34
The war in Iraq. Female, age 73
Price of gas, food, and everything is going up except paycheck. Male, age 52
Get us out of Iraq and bring my son and everyone else home. Male, age 57
Work on the economy. Male, age 52
The president needs to fix domestic problems rather than foreign policy; the country is falling apart from within. Get religion out of his policy. Female, age 31
To back off the Social Security thing and get straightened out with Medicare. Male, age 43
To get Social Security back on track. Female, age 36
Admire his own thinking. Male, age 93
Just tell him I'm proud of him and that he's doing a good job. Female, age 81
Stop the war. Female, age 40
Social Security needs to be left alone. Female, age 69
War over there -- no business going over there. Medicare -- no good of a president. Male, age 48
I would want him to keep up the good work on keeping families together. Female, age 58
He should seal the borders to the degree that immigrants are welcome in this country but should be documented. Court system should be strengthened and Congress should legislate to the degree that we take back the judiciary or at least restore balance of power intended. Continue with Social Security policy. There's a problem. Not imminent but forthcoming. Male, age 58
Stay with your principles, keep having courage, don't forget the poor people, please stay with choices of morality. Female, age 75
Talk to him about the healthcare insurance that we have and also about the benefit of Social Security, about disabled persons and their income. Female, age 67
I would tell him to stop making decisions that are based on motivations that serve a small percentage of the population. Female, age 37
I'm about to be single again and what about the health insurance plan. Female, age 43
Butt out. Male, age 50
I knew your grandfather when he was a senator. Male, age 65
His whole outlook on Social Security is ludicrous. If you have a medium income, it's not going to hurt you. His tax breaks are for the rich and famous. The whole situation in Iraq. He needed to think about it a little longer before he did what he did. Female, age 58
How about start with the oil prices, can we put a limit to that. Female, age 53
Pull the troops out of Iraq. Female, age 51
Healthcare issues. I just think we should have better healthcare for some of our elderly and low-income families. Female, age 64
He should think more about the working people. He is doing nothing for the working people. Male, age 65
Medicare. Iraq war. Female, age 75
Social Security has worked like it is, just leave it alone. Female, age 88
Keep up what he is doing. Female, age 82
To protect our borders against illegal aliens. Male, age 55
Get out of Iraq and don't bother Social Security. Don't nominate Bolton for the U.N. Female, age 52
Don't waver. Female, age 53
Close the borders make it harder to get in. Female, age 39
Education here in North Carolina, foreign policies, domestic issues, Social Security, things along those lines. Male, age 23
Get all the families out of Cuba, get rid of Castro. Allow the families in the U.S. to help provide for families in Cuba. Female, age 65
Economy. Male, age 44
I'd tell him to leave Social Security as it is. Female, age 77
To resign. Female, age 60
Keep doing what he's doing and I think he's a God-fearing man. Female, age 30
Don't mess with Social Security. Male, age 58
We want to get away from the oil business and talk about renewable energy. Stop trying to implement the nuclear answer to stop filibusters so they can ram things through. Male, age 73
Don't think he's handling it right in Iraq sending the boys over. Don't think he is handling Social Security right. Female, age 83
Get the oil prices down and improve the economy. Male, age 73
Social Security. The control of Congress with the Republican filibuster. War. Female, age 58
Need to find a way to get Social Security back on track. Male, age 61
Stop worrying about Social Security and start worrying about Medicare, and national insurance for those who are uninsured. Female, age 28
The deficit is killing us, because of a tax cut nobody wanted but him. Female, age 58
I'm upset about the war. He made an error going into the war. Male, age 58
I can't really put it in words. There are so many things that he's not doing right. He's making more problems and hasn't even settled the ones that he started. Male, age 25
To accelerate the removing of troops and to take better care of the environment. Male, age 56
To make blood donation public. Female, age 39
I'm worried about Social Security. Male, age 30
Bring down the gas prices. Male, age 59
Deal with Social Security. Get us out of Iraq. Male, age 27
Employment. Male, age 34
Resign as president. More concerned about free elections in Iraq. Male, age 50
Get the troops back into the country. Cut down on unemployment. Cut down on interest rates. Male, age 79
The war in Iraq. Female, age 75
Improve his energy policy -- more renewable energy; cleaner environment; more long-term. Male, age 30
To do something for the common man and not just for CEOs and the money makers, and to do something for the United States homeland with steel prices. Male, age 34
They need to up the Social Security tax to 150 thousand. Female, age 65
Bring those fellows from over there in Iraq. Female, age 78
Didn't like the tax cut -- did the country a real disservice by doing that. Male, age 75
He's got a tough job and I don't know anyone who would want it. He's standing by his morals and belief system and he's keeping his promises. Female, age 61
Get our boys home. Male, age 37
Get out of Iraq. Get close to God. Female, age 33
Think about the afterlife and what God will hold you accountable for. Female, age 33
Close the borders and shut out illegal aliens. Male, age 77
I don't appreciate his efforts to undermine the unions and using the scare tactics about 9/11 to undermine the personal rights of privacy, and I think it was an unbelievable amount of bologna to go into Iraq. Male, age 51
Don't mess with Social Security. Male, age 58
Try to devise a more firm energy policy, and be more combative to his people that are after him. Male, age 80
Health system. Education. Stop funding other countries. Female, age 39
Listen and be more open. Male, age 52
Stop fooling around with Medicare. Female, age 65
Resign and go home. Female, age 80
Energy as in oil, we need cheaper, lower energy costs. Male, age 45
I think he's a little too rigid about things like abortion. Female, age 75
To lower prices of gasoline. Straighten out tax codes. Male, age 58
No child left behind is unrealistic. Female, age 46
The energy crisis again. Female, age 56
More distinction between church and state. Male, age 42
I do not think you know what you are doing, you do not care about the American public. I think you are greedy and selfish. Female, age 54
Just a myriad of problems, haven't addressed any local problems. Male, age 73
Welfare systems and housing. Female, age 30
What a good job I think he's doing. Female, age 50
To stop lying to the people and tell us what's really going on. Female, age 54
I like what he is doing with everything. Keep up what he is doing. Female, age 39
Spending all of our money overseas. $200 billion on Iraq war and trying to get Iraq on its feet. We should be getting their oil. Take care of our home before you go police the world. Male, age 71
Don't privatize Social Security. Female, age 75
Ending war in Iraq. Female, age 29
Maybe a better job economy. Female, age 33
Need to get gas prices down. Less jobs going overseas. Less people coming in from overseas. Male, age 54
We need to get out of Iraq. Female, age 59
To go jump in a lake. Female, age 50
Keep up the good work. Female, age 85
Lower gas prices. Female, age 51
Lower gas prices. Male, age 34
Border patrol, please do something about that. Male, age 34
Drop the privatize Social Security issue. Stop supporting his friends in the oil industry. Female, age 55
Keep up the good work. Male, age 40
Continue to spread freedom. Male, age 59
Don't approve of war, Social Security. Female, age 65
To continue on fixing Social Security to put it in privatized accounts. Male, age 28
Healthcare plan -- I have some concerns, and Social Security as well. Female, age 38
War, how he has messed that up. Judicial nominees. Tax cuts are misguided. Female, age 33
Keep funding the military. Keep pressing forward in Iraq. Male, age 36
Bring the boys home. Leave Social Security alone. Male, age 69
The war. Female, age 58
Get out of office as fast as he can. Male, age 36
Withdraw troops from Iraq. Make sure he stays out of stem cell research. Female, age 41
Leave Social Security alone. I'm not very happy about the war in Iraq. Economy isn't as good as he says. Female, age 73
Try getting out of Iraq. Female, age 63
Better jobs. Female, age 35
Rethink a lot of his policies. Female, age 60
I would push the agenda on drilling in the Alaska reserves. Male, age 46
Leave Social Security private accounts alone. Get us out of Iraq. Female, age 53
Probably Social Security and Medicare. Male, age 70
Get out of Iraq. Get away from the Social Security issue. Get away from supporting pharmaceuticals and petroleum companies that are being given all types of liberties to abuse us. Male, age 70
Don't pursue extreme life policies, be in the middle. Get away from supporting pharmaceuticals and petroleum companies that are being given all types of liberties to abuse us. Get away from supporting pharmaceuticals and petroleum companies that are being given all types of liberties to abuse us. Male, age 73
Back off with his right-wing religious stands. War -- what are we doing there. Male, age 39
Create jobs, don't send English and entry-level jobs abroad. Get out of Iraq, terrible job there. Dump Dick Cheney. If sending troops to Iraq should send one of his daughters so he knows what it feels like. Female, age 44
Think have to talk about foreign affairs, taxes, environment. Male, age 42
He is catering too much to the oil industry. Change foreign policy to one of respect to foreign countries. Female, age 43
Forget Social Security and do something about the economy and healthcare and Medicaid and Medicare. Address things that are happening now and not about things happening down the road and get us out of Iraq. Stop spending so much money on weaponry. Male, age 63
He needs bring the troops home. Female, age 26
Tell him to have the Senate do the nuclear thing on the judges. Male, age 62
He's doing a great job, but I wished he'd do something about immigration. Female, age 68
Please save Social Security. Male, age 44
We need more prayer. Start restoring some things, we haven't had prayer in school etc. Get rid of unions.Female, age 77
Medical, I wonder why we can't use military hospitals for Medicare and Medicaid. Foreign aid, stop all money, anybody who needs anything, we build it, ship it, that is the way we keep the money for ourselves, drop the stuff on their docks, but no money. Male, age 61
How to beat the Democrats in 2006. Male, age 62
Civil rights. Foreign policy. Healthcare. Male, age 70
How to come to a quicker resolution in Iraq and Social Security. Female, age 49
To link Palestine, Israel and Iraq issues together and resolve them in that way. Cost of medical insurance and the way the hospitals and doctors are ripping off the system. They round trip the elderly patients. Male, age 47
That we need to pull out of Iraq and just let them be. Female, age 44
I can't say it out loud. Female, age 61
Bring our boys home. Female, age 52
He should not rest on his laurels based on the good development that have happened recently in the area that would be influenced by his actions in Iraq. Get realistic about the Israeli conflict with the American people. Male, age 33
One of my most concerns would be terrorism, and I guess our handling of the Mexico border. I think were doing a good job on handling terrorism from spreading over here. Male, age 28
I like that he is not afraid of Christianity, and how he talks about God the way he does. Male, age 18
Help the people that are in poverty in the US. Healthcare. Female, age 50
To keep on the direction he is going. Try to resolve the problem in Iraq as quickly as possible. Male, age 30
Keep praying, following God's direction. Male, age 43
Leave your religion at home and represent the whole U.S. and not just Southern Texas religion. Female, age 71
High prices on energy costs. Male, age 65
Social Security issues. Male, age 49
Don't mess with Social Security. Try to get Iraq straightened out. Lower taxes. Female, age 65
I do disapprove of the war, I think it could have been prevented. Female, age 18
Think he is doing great job. Appreciated dedication to the country. Inform on concern on healthcare costs.Female, age 41
Lower the prices and stop the wars. Female, age 63
To focus more on domestic policy. Male, age 31
Just do what you're doing and don't look back. Male, age 75
Back off Social Security. Male, age 74
Move a little closer to the middle, diplomatic issues handled differently in the future about the war and not to intervene in clearly private matters like Terri Schiavo. Female, age 41
Get out of Iraq. Male, age 50
Pay for what we need instead of just taking. Male, age 23
Tell him not to cut Amtrak and the economy. Male, age 77
People entering the Texas educational system, they give up their rights to Social Security. The person holding this up is really. Female, age 62
Get out of UN. Lighten up on abortion. Female, age 67
I'm glad that he has a more aggressive foreign policy that's its needed to maintain our freedom. Female, age 57
Concern about foreign policy and specifically the war in Iraq. Male, age 62
Stay the course. Female, age 45
We should never have gone into Iraq and the war was unnecessary. Our taxes are too high. Female, age 65
Bring our boys home from Iraq. Male, age 89
He tries to cover too many things, vague, be more specific clear things up for the people. Female, age 85
Why gas is so expensive. Why our men are still in Iraq. Female, age 58
Get out of Iraq. Male, age 76
Think he's doing a good job. Agree with what he's doing in Iraq. Female, age 28
Try to pass a federal sales tax to finance Social Security and not privatize it. Male, age 82
We're not the only or most important country in the world and we should stop acting like it. Male, age 26
I would say he's not too good on Social Security for older people. Male, age 71
About the war in Iraq, about the lies that got us over there. Discuss treatment of the retirees of the military and there benefits. Female, age 57
Continue what he is doing. Male, age 55
Get out of Iraq and do something with healthcare. Female, age 51
He needs to get in touch with the working people of this country not with rich fat cats. Female, age 46
Troops out of Iraq. Male, age 71
Education funding. Government waste. Female, age 33
Bring our boys home. Female, age 76
Bring the war in Iraq to a closure, too much money being spent over there. Female, age 41
National debt. Social Security. Female, age 30
I'd tell him to stick to his guns. Female, age 62
Get the boys home. Female, age 65
Social Security. Gas price. Put people to work again. Male, age 57
Stop being a war monger and pay attention to the people at home. Leave my civil liberties alone. Female, age 52
Not to think so highly of himself. Object to pushing morality on the American public. Female, age 54
To admit when he is in error, when his policy is in error. Male, age 64
Tell him to quit. Female, age 56
Stop shipping all of economy to China. I would tell him to stop selling out to corporate America. Stop reign in American corporations or pass a law that would prevent corporations from selling private American citizens personal info to China and India, etc. Female, age 52
He underestimated the Islamic mind. Male, age 49
Make sure that we have coverage for hospitalization! Don't take it away! Stay in Iraq until it's over!Female, age 73
Why is he fighting his fathers war. What are his plans for the economy. Why did he elect Condoleezza Rice to Secretary of State and her history and job before is dealing with Russia and communism, why is she dealing with Iraq. Male, age 18
To work on getting out of Iraq. Male, age 36
Continue to stay the course, do a better job of organizing the hs. Male, age 54
Stop lying to American public. Male, age 25
Not a good President. Female, age 38
We need to secure the borders. Male, age 69
I would remind him that most people in the country aren't as wealthy as he is and he needs to be in touch with reality in this country. Female, age 64
Illegal immigration problem with promised amnesty for illegals creating problems in California and elsewhere. Male, age 48
I think we have to use diplomatic approach in our global policy. Female, age 66
We need reinstate prayer in our schools. Put God back into everything. Female, age 35
Tell him to get us out of Iraq. Male, age 78
I would talk about Social Security. I guess the war in Iraq. Male, age 25
Quit fooling around over there and not let them over here. Male, age 18
They need to do something about our US borders. Male, age 57
Start doing what the people want and not what the big businesses want. Male, age 72
Talk to him about decisions he's made about the war. Female, age 24
The fact that he should listen specifically, he said that we should go in to Iraq when the guy looking for weapons of mass destruction said there were no weapons. Female, age 45
I didn't care much for his Social Security plan. Male, age 52
Tell the truth. Male, age 29
To quit. Female, age 34
Talking about Social Security and disabilities, and fraud commit for doctors. Female, age 47
Resign. Female, age 57
Get tougher in Iraq. Male, age 53
Get out of Iraq. Female, age 53
Probably education. The war. Children's programs being sliced. Female, age 40
To get out of the war in Iraq. Female, age 31
Iraq, the reason for being there, the truth. Male, age 21
I think he should listen to experts. I think he is simplifying what is going on in the Middle East and he should be more aware of it. Female, age 65
Get out of Iraq more quickly. Male, age 52
Tell him, ask why we're still having people die in Iraq, and explain to me the privatization of Social Security, because I cannot understand what they're trying to do. Male, age 27
Talk about Social Security. Female, age 49
Gas prices. Female, age 18
Get Social Security straightened out. Get the gas prices down Approve the increasing of ethanol. Male, age 69
That he needs to take care of his own people and take care of the economy. Male, age 33
To change the legislator on same sex marriage. Female, age 37
Social Security. The war. Budget. Female, age 62
Hypocrite for upholding the death penalty but claim abortion is bad, and the future is going down the drain. Female, age 28
Gas prices need to go down. Male, age 20
Get the Social Security straightened out. Male, age 53
I would say that he should focus on national events and not things like Terri Schiavo. Maybe he could be more spontaneous speaking. Female, age 28
Protect the borders. Male, age 62
Cut military spending and put it in our schools and education. Tax the rich more and give the middle class a break. Female, age 53
Try to lower taxes & increase the economy. Male, age 48
Definitely the war, and how long we are going to be there and when they are finally going to give it up. Female, age 32
He's an idiot. Male, age 53
That he's out of touch with mainstream America, and he's not addressing the important issues, around the world and the economy and everything. Female, age 48
Close our borders, stop the illegals from coming over here. He's doing a fine job if he could just stop the illegals from coming. Male, age 53
Resign. Stop fooling around with (swear word) taxes. Leave Social Security and everything alone.Male, age 79
That he has mishandled Iraq. I don't think he's doing any good for the economy. He is too conservative. Female, age 53
He's not being very honest. Be more honest with the people. Bolton thing. Cut loose of some of the judges he's trying to put through. Step back from Iraq. Male, age 46
Leave Social Security alone, Medicare. Female, age 78
Rising gas prices are killing the economy. Male, age 33
Not comfortable with Social Security plan he is doing. Not sure why still in Iraq or why we went in the beginning. How does he sleep at night knowing young people are dying for causes unknown. Female, age 47
We need our borders a little more safer. He's doing a great job. Male, age 41
The cost of everything, forget changes to Social Security. Should have a lot more employment for our younger people, good paying jobs.Female, age 80
Economy and Iraq. Male, age 34
Social Security does need to be reformed not privatized. This economy was booming now just about hitting rock bottom. Had balanced budget, ran it into the ground. Female, age 69
Get out of Iraq. Male, age 78
Sending all the money overseas and not keeping any here at home. He could do something about gas prices. Cutting Medicaid, should be adding to it. Male, age 65
Stop the war. Female, age 30
That he is doomed for failure. Female, age 60
To resign. Male, age 54
End to the war in Iraq. Health insurance. Medicare. Female, age 67
Withdrawal from Iraq as soon as the government is stable. Male, age 53
Talk about Social Security and not convinced about plans. Female, age 29
Stand strong. Female, age 38
Things were going totally in the wrong direction. Ignoring important values. False direction. Female, age 57
I think the worst mistake he ever made was making our men and woman go to Iraq. Female, age 57
Stop the war in Iraq! Female, age 51
Need to take care of people at home and don't worry about other countries. Male, age 43
Leave office. Female, age 53
I would talk about recycling and composting to get less waste in land fills. Female, age 33
Healthcare insurance. Female, age 45
Give me some more government contracts. Male, age 70
To help the kids here in the U.S. first. Female, age 28
I would ratchet things up in the Middle East. We need to quit side stepping up a bunch of things. We do need to get them home quick. Male, age 49
Leave everybody alone. Female, age 19
I would tell him to improve the Foreign policy. Male, age 41
Reevaluate the UN Ambassadors appointment to office. Male, age 40
Public schools: More funding for public schools. Female, age 39
Don't do the Social Security program. Male
Reduce taxes, eliminate marriage penalty. Continue work for amendment limiting judicial power. Male, age 34
More focus on domestic issues, things in this country like social services. Female, age 24
Focus on energy. Male, age 49
Not qualify, medical insurance, and the elderly that don't get any support. Female, age 78
I'm concerned about what they're doing or not doing, about welfare, probably mostly what they are doing. Female, age 58
Concentrate more on home and less on abroad, we have a lot of problems at home that need to be addressed. Female, age 55
Concerned about Social Security and pursue your line of thinking on that. I am not in favor of no child left behind. He should have grandfathered teachers already certified by the state so they didn't have to take tests.Female, age 59
Cost of gasoline too high. Male, age 41
Bring our soldiers home, and I would like the real reasons for the war. Male, age 30
Close the borders. Male, age 46
I would just advice him that the common man cannot afford the gas prices, they are out of this world. Male, age 36
He needs to work on the elderly programs. Needs to look at the welfare system. Balance the budget. Female, age 56
Needs to continue on certain aspects of Socially Security not good for us. Young adults should not be involved. Female, age 39
Keep up the war on terrorism, but lets do something about the border. Male, age 65
Quit while he is ahead. Male, age 62
I think the troops in Iraq need to possibly come home by now. Female, age 47
We need to something about the jobs. Female, age 41
Back off. Female, age 74
I would tell him that he has done a good job in respect to the forging stabilization against terrorism. He should take a good hard look at Social Security and the offers that congress is providing because I am not certain that Social Security needs a big rehab. Bring our soldiers home as soon as he can. Male, age 63
The Social Security issue, I approve of his approach. Male, age 66
Focus on the economy and jobs. Male, age 61
Forget the Social Security plan that he's got. Intervene in the Sudan. Dump DeLay. Male, age 57
Ask if he learned anything in his first 4 years. Does he talk to his father about what it means to be a diplomat instead of a Texan bully. Male, age 61
Government needs to be a lot more honest, not tell us one thing and do something else. Male, age 41
Get the war over in Iraq and get gas prices down. Male, age 64
Crisis in Middle East. Male, age 52
Stop the war. Female, age 31
Taxes. Female, age 25
National sales tax; do away with the current taxing system. Male, age 62
Social Security. Gas prices. Male, age 69
I don't know. Female, age 27
I would say on the Schiavo case he should not have interfered at all. Female, age 74
Do things for more of the general American public rather than other parts of the world. Male, age 48
Get out of Iraq. Spend more money on internal issues. Female, age 44
Keep doing what your doing. Male, age 45
Child support and minimum wage. Female, age 40
Schools. Female, age 39
Straighten out Social Security. Male, age 60
End the war and to restore our privacy. Male, age 36
To change the plans on Social Security. Female, age 58
Get the (swear word) out of Iraq. Male, age 65
When he makes declarations of various things he's going to do, he lies. The plans he has for the economy and social services are way out of whack. Female, age 76
Costs of fuel. Female, age 54
Talk to him about personal issues, his faith, we went to same church, both from Texas. Really don't have many criticisms because I'm not educated enough about issues, but just talk in general.Female, age 37
We should have an exit strategy for Iraq. Male, age 50
Don't mess with the seniors. Female, age 56
I'm concerned about what he's doing in Israel, the Middle East. Male, age 48
I don't approve of the way he's going about Medicare. Female, age 57
Needs to focus on people in the US, older people that have lost income. People who have lost outsourced jobs.Female, age 63
War. Female, age 35
More concerned about domestic affairs instead of middle eastern affairs. Male, age 39
Needs to focus on people in U.S. Male, age 45
Make sure the Iraq involvement does not turn into another Viet Nam. Male, age 51
Mind your own business. Female, age 23
Attitude and approach toward the Middle East. Better counsel concerning Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.Female, age 38
I would not even want to talk to him. Male, age 99
Make sure retirement would be there for the younger folks. I agree with the war just have to slow down. Male, age 55
Ask him to address some health care issues. Social Security. War in Iraq.Female, age 41
Send the clock back. Male, age 90
End the war in Iraq. Female, age 20
The whole Iraq issue, I wish we would pull the troops out of Iraq. No child left behind, I don't particularly agree with it. He's put us in trillions and trillions of dollars worth of debt. Female, age 34
I would ask him about his budget and ask him how he would fathom running that high of a deficit. Male, age 31
Bring our troops home. Female, age 61
Tries to please everyone. Doesn't show enough restraint on spending. Situation in Iraq. Male, age 47
Gas prices, find a way to lower them. Male, age 34
His values and his faith. Female, age 44
Pay a bit more attention closer to home domestic problems. Male, age 50
Like for war in Iraq to end. Female, age 46
There are no good male role models in politics, in society and the females are slacking off too. Strive for world peace. With an iron fist.Male, age 24
Stay the course; focus on the tax cuts diligently as he's doing; reinstate the housing program. Male, age 61
Do not spend millions of dollars on civic centers!! This money should be spent on the people in Mississippi. The old people on Medicaid need this money more! Don't spend money on big buildings. Female, age 38
Tell him to give more a focus on Social Security. The war in Iraq, there are better ways to spend our countries money. Female, age 24
I don't, you're running the country good. Female, age 56
I would ask him about the troops, and allowing them to come home. Allow Iraq to build themselves up. We have been there long enough. Female, age 33
I would like for him to focus his energy on what's going on in this country, instead of what's going on in Afghanistan and Iraq. Get out of war now.Male, age 36
Help the middle income people out! We need help with property taxes & health insurance. Male, age 44
I would like the war to end. He did a good job on taxes and I like No Child Left Behind. Retirement and Social Security.Female, age 49
Social Security. Female, age 56
Bring the troops home. Female, age 44
I guess about funding education more. Female, age 35
We should have never gone to war. I don't like his Social Security.Female, age 85
The health insurance plan. Social Security. Male, age 40
Talk to him about his energy idea about how to handle the crisis. Female, age 47
The job loss in this country, and seeing jobs going away in Michigan. Male, age 39
He's doing a good job. Female, age 49
We need to get out of Iraq. Female, age 39
Get our men and women back from Iraq. Female, age 46
Get out of Iraq. Female, age 43
Leave Social Security alone! Bring the troops home! I don't want any more Americans killed in Iraq.Male, age 79
I would tell him I'm 33 and I would like to count on my Social Security or not pay for it right now. Female, age 33
Education. Social Security. War. Female, age 30
He should pay more attention to what's going on in America and what's going on in Iraq. There are a lot of other issues in America; Saddam is gone, so let them rebuild.Male, age 37
Get out of foreign affairs and spend more time in the US. Male, age 35
Forget the change in Social Security. Male, age 87
To get out of Iraq. Female, age 37
Get the gas prices down and the war taken care of. Male, age 34
Borders. Male, age 35
Fix Social Security, and not the way he's doing it now. Male, age 36
It would just be with healthcare for everybody old and young. Male, age 67
Retire. Female, age 54
Someone who claims to be a spiritual leader as well as the leader of the country needs to put people's rights ahead of his own, like in the Bible and Declaration of Independence. Female, age 31
Back off of Syria and Iran for the time being. Further assertion with North Korea.Male, age 31
Get us out of the war. Female, age 64
Fix the environment. Get out of Iraq. Support unions. Male, age 48
Take the army home from Iraq and put them down on our Mexican border. Male, age 79
Talk with him about his Social Security reform and why I'm opposed to it. Male, age 61
I'm not for the war. The economy. Schools - don't cut programs. Female, age 65
Get the forces out of Iraq. Male, age 20
He is not trying to help middle class or lower class people at all. He's just hurting them. I don't trust his plans for Social Security. Female, age 45
Urge him to keep tough on judicial nominees; we don't need wacko judges. Male, age 63
Focus more on current economic problems. Male, age 68
To bring the people back from Iraq. Female, age 18
Get our soldiers out of Iraq. Female, age 69
To do something about the economy. Female, age 33
Something related to his handling of the war in Iraq. Female, age 21
The war. Male, age 26
Leave Social Security alone. Female, age 70
Whether or not he thinks being in Iraq is a good thing and if in his opinion we're making progress. Female, age 26
To stop spending money overseas and put the money into Social Security. Female, age 62
Talk about war. The policy on education. Gas prices. Female, age 45
I would tell him that we know a lot of info that is being pumped through all sources of media he has absolutely no control over. The smallest portion of us also know that your job as president is only a smokescreen; a lot of the bills and clauses are in the states. Democracy back to all people. Male, age 24
What the plan was for the war in Iraq, and what is he doing there. Female, age 52
Keep referring to God and the Bible. Male, age 40
Retirement. Health. Education. Male, age 62
The cost of living. It is too hard to buy a house. Female, age 25
Stick with the job he is doing in Iraq. Female, age 31
Love everybody. Pay attention to what's on Earth and not on Mars. Make more campsites on public land. RVs have filled up the land because of the boom on RVs. Male, age 25
Stay the course with God. Female, age 52
Reasoning behind being in the Middle East and how he can justify sacrificing the lives of young Americans. Justifying why the money is being spent on the war and not on domestic issues, such as education, unemployment, and the living wage. Male, age 31
Where are the weapons of mass destruction? Male, age 58
Do not mess with Social Security. Do not mess with the environment! Be more pro-choice and pro-gay. Male, age 51
Continue the job he's doing. Male, age 69
Form a new committee to locate terrorists that are in US. Female, age 50
I am concerned about global warming! Male, age 53
Just everybody may agree or disagree with what he is doing but they wouldn't know how they would react in his situation. Female, age 25
He needs to worry about home -- people in America before any place else. Male, age 46
Tell him he's doing great and that I'm honored to have him as my Commander-in-Chief. Male, age 35
Take a little better care of our fellows coming back from the war; the wounded guys are getting lost in the shuffle. Male, age 35
Concern of everybody about the lingering war. Male, age 60
Oil prices are going up, and the adverse affect on the economy because of it.
Close the borders. Bring our boys home.Male, age 65
I feel that he could do a little bit better on the economy of the country. I feel he could have a big impact on the rising cost of gasoline and I would feel honored to sit down and talk to the man. Male, age 59
Kick some more (swear word). Female, age 43
The war. That counts for all that allows; my 19-year-old cousin was in Iraq, and I don't want to talk about it. Female, age 46
Leave Social Security alone. Male, age 40
Quit. Male, age 48
He's doing a great job. I agree with his Social Security plan. Female, age 39
I disagree with his opinion on Social Security; it is not an investment fund, it is more like an insurance policy. How long will we be in Iraq? Female, age 36
Stop the war. Male, age 55
Get our people out of Iraq. Female, age 48
Find a way to lower gas prices. Male, age 23
Leave our Social Security checks alone. Female, age 91
Stop the war. Female, age 26
I don't know, I really couldn't answer that. Male, age 48
Focusing a little more about things that are going on here and security issues for the United States. Female, age 41
He and his big wigs in Washington should fight the war and let our boys come home. Female, age 77
Keep doping a great job and don't listen to critics; go with your instincts. Male, age 19
Something about the ongoing war, of course, and how to better deal with it. I'm not sure, because I haven't given it much thought. Male, age 18
I would give him praise and tell him he's doing a really good job. Female, age 23
Oil. Male, age 57
Kick (swear word), take names later. Male, age 43
Environmental policy. Male, age 36
Stop being a bully. Female, age 51
Pull troops out of Iraq. Abolish the death penalty. Do not privatize Social Security. Female, age 28
Address education a little better. Female, age 51
You have got to worry about the borders that we have. Our borders are not secure -- people come in. Since we are the majority in the Senate and in the House, I want to know why they are not doing anything about the judges. Social Security -- I think it is a good idea to privatize part of it and slowly do away with it. Male, age 59
Take it easy on the whole war situation. Male, age 18
I'd ask him questions about why we did some of the things we've done, specifically Iraq and other foreign issues. I doubt he'd tell me his real reasons. Male, age 22
Spending too much money on military programs. The religious conservatives don't necessarily reflect the majority of public opinion. Female, age 51
I would talk to him about Social Security and the war in Iraq. Male, age 53
I'm concerned about the retirement and Social Security health services. Male, age 62
Three major problems: immigration, I don't like the Social Security plan, and terrorism. And I think he's doing a good job there; I don't like the approach and high cost of medicine, and I'm a physician. Male, age 80
Ask lots of questions about the war. Female, age 46
Get out of Iraq, fix the economy, leave Social Security alone, and decrease our dependency on foreign oil sources. Male, age 57
I would tell him that we need to be concerned about the planet and the environment. Male, age 52
He's getting whipped on the oil industry. Male, age 51
I think that he's a lost cause. Male, age 70
Economy. Male, age 34
He needs to help people in the US before helping people overseas. And he needs to get more and better jobs in the US instead of overseas. Male, age 67
Concerned with rising gas prices. The transportation infrastructure is not up to the rising economy. Male, age 47
Cut the deficit. Male, age 43
Start concentrating on the economy here instead of sending money to places abroad. Our health insurance premiums are outrageous. Female, age 69
His nominees are controversial; why is he doing that? Female, age 51
The direction on Social Security is wrong. The Iraq situation needs to be more carefully defined regarding when we will bring the troops back.Female, age 60
Solve Social Security and solve energy. Male, age 62
He's doing a terrible job on everything. Female, age 25
He needs to work on his public speaking skills; get rid of that weasely laugh. Ask him where he's getting his ideas on homeland security. Male, age 21
The taxes are destroying businesses and we are increasing the deficit; We are going to have to dig ourselves out of it. You are shocked as he is a graduate of business school and yet he shows so little understanding of economic realities. If you follow the money. Female, age 53
They ought to do something with Social Security. Do not take some; what they have left they go in and take the money that is left, or the government goes in and takes it and pays other bills with it. I think the senators should be under Social Security also. Female, age 72
Healthcare. Male, age 38
We are not accomplishing anything in Iraq. They don't know how to deal with peace. We're doing this all on our own. Female, age 70
We don't belong in Iraq. We have companies in the US that produce methanol and we have the IRL racing league that burns that fuel in their cars. Why can't we convert all of our cars being produced to that fuel? Methanol is an extremely clean fuel used in Indianapolis and places like that. Male, age 56
I don't like that he went into war. I don't like that people in the United States are starving. Female, age 59
George Bush, you are doing a good job and keep up the good work. I would thank him and ask him to push forward more pro-life issues. Get judges that will reverse Roe v. Wade. I approve of what he thinks we should do with Social Security. Female, age 45
Stand up to the democrats and tell them to go straight to (swear word). Male, age 50
Lower taxes. Get the guys out of Iraq. Female, age 23
I would ask him to discuss the economy. Female, age 31
About jobs, the war, and Social Security. Female, age 36
He does not support education as he should. The No Child Left Behind Act is inadequate. Female, age 28
About the war and ask him if all Americans were misguided. Health insurance. Social Security.Male, age 43
Go jump in the lake. Male, age 65
Religion has no place in government; pay attention to separation of church and state! Cooperate better with European countries. Male, age 59
I think he's made wrong decisions. I don't know how he'll get us out of Iraq. The problems down the road with the economy. Female, age 75
Bring the troops back home. More medical help. Female, age 28
Healthcare. Female, age 37
About Social Security. Male, age 55
Stop trying to do the job your father could not do; get out of Iraq. Female, age 30
I would tell him to keep up the good work and I appreciate the way the country is being protected. Also, I appreciate having a president who has God in his life. Female, age 33
Stop spending so much money. Peace in Iraq. Female, age 79
Admit he made mistakes throughout his presidency. Male, age 33
Overall, he's doing a pretty good job and he needs to just stay consistent. He doesn't need to bend to the political and media whims.Male, age 49
I'm happy with what he's doing. Male, age 27
Healthcare. Female, age 79
Cut taxes and get the budget in order; cut spending. Male, age 52
Close the borders. Male, age 51
Healthcare. Male, age 41
I would rather not do that. Female, age 74
I'm very much against the war in Iraq. Female, age 85
Get out of Iraq, abandon his plans on Social Security, and lighten up on his preaching his religion to us. Male, age 56
Oil prices. Healthcare. Male, age 48
Stop sending money we don't have. Female, age 78
He needs to stop legislating morality. I don't like the way he is handling education; the No Child Left Behind Act only gets teachers to help students pass a test, not learn.Female, age 35
Nothing different from what he's doing now; I think he's doing a good job. Female, age 82
Get our boys overseas back home. Male, age 52
Focus on the economy and get out of Iraq. Female, age 37
I guess probably that more attention should be paid to the economy instead of foreign matters. Female, age 37
I don't really have anything in particular that I would like to discuss. Female, age 79
Continue to focus on Social Security. A new United Nations advisor. The tax structure -- cut down on the amount of taxes, eliminate taxes on small businesses and estate taxes, and the filing for every American family is way too complicated; go back to the idea of a flat tax. Female, age 55
Get out of Iraq. Male, age 44
To continue to stick by his morals and continue to be the president that he has been. Female, age 30
Start drilling for oil. Male, age 46
Bring the troops home. Male, age 69
He made a few mistakes, especially the war in Iraq. Putting the country in the red for years to come. Male, age 72
Give up on Social Security, stop it, and come up with a new one. Female, age 33
The deficits are sowing the seeds of the destruction of the economy. His appointment of extreme right wing judges is bad for the country. His foreign policy needs to be completely overhauled, and the way he's going about Social Security reform is also wrong and unnecessary. Male, age 72
I am opposed to the war in Iraq; we are losing innocent lives like in Vietnam. I don't agree with his ideas for Social Security; I am 53 and have been paying in too long. I don't believe that he should go into the natural reserves in Alaska. I think there should be a better way. Female, age 53
I would tell him to be careful not to lose the liberties in this country, especially our Christian heritage. Female, age 79
Social Security and the war in Iraq. Male, age 77
Healthcare for the elderly. Education for children. Future retirement plans and his international decisions. Female, age 39
Balance the budget. Get out of Iraq. Male, age 53
Social Security is the most prevalent issue aside from the war. In regards to Social Security, how unstable the markets are now shows that people would have less control, not more, of their money. Female, age 24
I would tell him I was very pleased with the way he is running the country and the decisions he is making. Female, age 64
Stop being so stupid and help our own people, not people overseas; we can't afford to do anything else. Find people who are breaking into houses, raping, and murdering people, instead of drug users. They're doing a crime, but more rapists and criminals get away with stuff than the drug dealers do. Female, age 21
Be fair and do it with integrity. Male, age 71
Start a draft and help support the troops. Male, age 44
Stop fighting his daddy's battles. Being too generous with money we don't have. Male, age 34
I'd like to see this war end. Female, age 54
Take a dollar bill and hold it in your hand, and ask someone what would you call this? It's a buck! This is a bucky world, from the ground up -- everything is based on money. Female, age 92
Help us old folks out. Male, age 75
To end the war and bring the troops back home. Also, I would tell him to keep the money he is spending there in the United States; there are people here that need it as much as those in Iraq. My husband goes to the VA to get help with his medication. Female, age 55
Balance in economic policy. Bring peace to war. Male, age 53
Leave Social Security alone. Male, age 62
Social Security, health and welfare, and gas prices. Male, age 34
Use the little bomb and take the rest of them out. Female, age 84
I like the way he handled the war. We had no choice. They can't come here and bomb the World Trade Center. He is strong enough to stand behind our country and not allow terrorism. Female, age 42
I think your Social Security plan is a joke. Female, age 65
The position of women in this country and a person's right to privacy. The world situation and what's happening; we have more uninsured American now than ever. The fact that our judiciary committees are going so far to the right. It scares me -- does he really want to be commissioner of Major League Baseball? Female, age 39
The war in Iraq. Social Security. The needs here at home. Female, age 40
Social Security; it needs to be fixed so it doesn't go into bankruptcy. Female, age 49
Health insurance needs to be overhauled. Female, age 69
Environmental issues; cleaning up the air. Controls on power plants. Male, age 53
He should be more open-minded about the issue of moral values; other things have higher priority. Female, age 25
Stop the illegal immigration. Female, age 49
I would say that he would look more into women's rights; amendments need to be passed in three more states. I wanted to say that the Social Security funds or money should be easily accessible to the senior citizens. Female, age 62
Take care of people here in our country. Female, age 86
He needs to find a way out of Iraq. Male, age 29
Secure our borders. Male, age 46
I'd tell him several things about the war and Social Security, and I would ask for some information about those things. I'd probably tell him he could take all the money that's gone into Social Security over the year, and just take care of it instead of putting it into something else. Don't be borrowing from Social Security, and if it needs more money give it more money. The Internal Revenue Service needs to be looking at big companies instead of individual people. They need to take care of fraud -- it's making it so difficult on people who have to pay taxes. Female, age 62
The issues with health insurance in the country right now, and the number of people -- middle class workforce -- that are either underinsured or uninsured, compared to the number of people that are on welfare and don't have to worry about healthcare. Male, age 30
How he's handling Iraq. His tax breaks. His very poor handling of the oil situation.Male, age 67
Medicare or something to do with retirement and Social Security. Male, age 81
About Social Security. Male, age 34
Education. Social Security. The war. Female, age 52
Stop being so deceitful. I have a brother who is a Vietnam vet. I have a son who dropped out of college and he went into the service. I am not selfish; I know that our children need to defend our country. I would even pick up a gun to defend our country. Female, age 53
I'm not thrilled with the health insurance; I think it's geared for the big companies and the little ones got (swear word). The oil prices are so sky high. Female, age 44
The borders. Male, age 56
Making a disaster of the war. People are going uninsured; the number of people who do not have medical insurance. Female, age 46
More common sense and less politics. Male, age 49
Budget deficits. Male, age 57
The war. Female, age 18
High-income folks do not need a tax break; the money needs to go to education and childcare. Female, age 52
Healthcare: the prices are too high, and it is too difficult for seniors to afford medication. Male, age 39
I couldn't talk to him. I wouldn't let him on my property. Male, age 83
Don't drill for oil in the Arctic. Male, age 62
If he was a man he would resign and apologize to the American people for lying and going to war in Iraq, which is costing us American lives. Male, age 90
Why is he keeping the war going? Female, age 72
The war! Bring those kids home! Female, age 75
Tell him about the children in Iraq and the gas prices. Female, age 54
Something about the gas prices. Male, age 55
He and his congressmen need to live on what I make, and then decide what minimum wage should be. Female, 48
To get rid of the marriage and civil unions of gays and lesbians. Female, age 49
I'd like for him to bring my husband home from Iraq. Female, age 38
Social Security. Female, age 52
Leave Social Security alone. Female, age 48
I would talk to him about the elderly and how hard it is to live on such a small income. Female, age 69
He is mishandling Social Security to the worst degree. Female, age 38
Medicare. Female, age 75
Pull our troops out and bomb the (swear words). Female, age 33
