He said the president believes strongly that soft money -- unrestricted funds to political parties -- from corporations and unions should be banned.
"At the time I thought it was soft, " he said.
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"I think we ought to get rid of labor union and corporate soft money, " he said.
If cooked and paired with burrata, he said, "it would be soft on soft" and uninteresting.
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Bartholomew said he also spent countless hours sprinting on soft sand under the direction of his former Grenadian coach Neville Glean.
"We want to make sure that when people look at the access to our benefits and our public services that no one thinks we are a soft touch in this country, " he said, adding that ministers were "taking action to make sure that won't be the case".
"The fact is we haven't been able to get a patients' bill of rights because soft money has gummed up the works, " he said on "CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer".
Last week, Iran's soft-spoken president, Muhammad Khatami, said he would be willing to extradite some 130 al-Qaeda suspects to their countries of origin, though he revealed neither the rank of those he had in mind, nor their possible destinations.
The review of "every single one of our systems: housing, health, benefits", was being led by immigration minister Mark Harper, he said, and would "make sure that we are not a soft touch for those who want to come here".
"For the most part, the public is very soft, you live in a dream world, " he said.
King Sihanouk, sensing growing public anger over the soft treatment of the pair, has now said that he would not be willing to grant an amnesty to the two men.
Community penalties were not a soft touch and were an effective deterrent to young offenders, he said.
"Our point of reference is he was a kind, gentle, soft-spoken teenager, " Ms. Page said.
Although Mr Bush opposed any restrictions on soft money while he was running for the presidency, since taking office he has said he will sign any legislation which "improves the system" now in place.
"The fact that the plane landed on a soft surface and that there was no fire helped keep the number of fatalities low, " he said.
"In my experience of cooking soft-shells for 15 or 16 years, most people enjoy them deep-fried, " he said.
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Anantawan said he's happiest playing music or working with children, who seem to relate to his boyish look and soft-spoken demeanor.
Sanchez said he couldn't provide many details about the attack, which he called the most significant against a "soft target" since Baghdad fell.
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