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It's tough to beat Bush's talent for cynical soundbites, but members of his administration have tried. Can you tell which quotes are truly presidential? Use the pull-down menus to match the quotes to their sources. - A B C 1. "We're looking at them as working landscapes." A. George W. Bush, defending plans to redraw the boundaries of nearly two dozen national monuments in order to allow gas and oil exploration. B. EPA administrator Christie Whitman, defending a federal rule that allows the mining industry to blow the tops off mountains and deposit the resulting waste in rivers, streams, and wetlands. A federal judge has called the rule an "obvious perversity" of the Clean Water Act that was "designed simply for the benefit of the mining industry." C. P. Lynn Scarlett, assistant Interior secretary for policy, management, and budget, explaining the administration's plans for opening public lands to mining and drilling. - A B C 2. "It's not a giveaway to the mining industry." - A B C 3. "There are some monuments where the land is so widespread, they just encompass as much as possible. And the integral part of the precious part, so to speak, I guess all land is precious, but the part that the people uniformly would not want to spoil, will not be despoiled." Book Illustration by Simon Shaw, Bottom Illustration by Gordon Studer