I merely took off from what he said in his State of the Union speech.

Now, the report says, only about 400 of the original 10,000 sites in the United States have ceased operation.

"Tax cuts will go forward," he said last month in his annual State of the State address.

Atzmon says his statements have lost him performance contracts, especially in the United States.

But a president who meant what he said in his State of the Union address, where he called for reform, would have stood by principle.

Graffiti, the mayor said in his State of the City address, is "an invitation to criminal behavior."

The notion of concept bedevils opera, he said, especially in the United States.

"We need more talented teachers in troubled schools," the president said in his 2002 State of the Union address, the first after 9/11.

"We must not cut defense further," the President said in his State of the Union Message.

As they say in the United States: "to be different is to be indecent."