Does Mr. Bush really believe he can have it both ways?

Presidential aides said Mr. Bush believed that the limit should be about $750,000 a case.

Mr. Bush believed that shorter was better, and truer to who he was.

Mr. Bush, he said, believes "that the health care system that worked 30 or 40 years ago isn't working."

Mr. Bush believes the best way is to give tax breaks to businesses and investors.

Mr. Bush firmly believes that no one tunes in to a campaign until the fall.

Yet Mr. Bush, despite all his talk of good and evil, doesn't believe in that system.

Mr. Bush believes that wealthy Americans are taxed too much.

Mr. Bush may believe that bigger government is compassionate, but I do not.

Mr. Bush believes the portrait captures the president perfectly.