(2002-09-25) -- Senator Tom Daschle said today that if he runs for president he'll have 'no comment' about anything.

"I just don't want to politicize the economy, foreign policy, social security, welfare, domestic security, and all these other issues that involve people's lives," the Senator said.

Earlier, Daschle had lambasted the Bush administration for "politicizing" the potential war with Iraq.

"Then it struck me," he said, "that all these issues we talk about involve people, and potentially even death. And so we don't want to cheapen that with the tawdry rhetoric of politics."

Daschle said that if he runs for president, rather than give speeches and news conferences propounding his views on the issues, he'll devote his time to simple acts of kindness toward strangers, far from the media spotlight.