President Bush told organized labor today that despite "honest differences" he wanted to maintain firm relations with the trade union movement.

Their split, he said politely yesterday, was caused by "a serious but honest difference of opinion about her career."

But he said that honest differences could exist over what forms of action were most appropriate.

Could we not agree that these are honest and good-faith differences over tactics?

And so we just have an honest difference of opinion.

There was a honest difference of opinion as to how to account for a complicated transaction.

These disparities may, in part, reflect honest differences of opinion.

At present, there is honest and wide difference of opinion about the best approaches.

I believe, as you do, that we can have honest differences on issues.

But he then immediately acknowledged that there were "some honest differences of opinion in Congress about what form these options should take."