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Americans Have Always Held Firm, Because We Have Always Believed In Certain Truths. We Know That If Evil Is Not Confronted, It Gains In Strength And Audacity And Returns To Strike Us Again. We Know That When The Work Is Hard, The Proper Response Is Not Retreat, It Is Courage. And We Know That A Great Ideal Of Human Freedom Entrusted To Us In A Special Way And That The Ideal Of Liberty Is Worth Defending.

-George W. Bush

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Americans Have Always Held

George W. Bush

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Americans Have Always Held Firm, Because We Have Always Believed In Certain Truths. We Know That If Evil Is Not Confronted, It Gains In Strength And Audacity And Returns To Strike Us Again. We Know That When The Work Is Hard, The Proper Response Is Not Retreat, It Is Courage. And We Know That A Great Ideal Of Human Freedom Entrusted To Us In A Special Way And That The Ideal Of Liberty Is Worth Defending.

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Ours Is A War Not Against A Religion, Not Against The Muslim Faith. But Ours Is A War Against Individuals Who Absolutely Hate What America Stands For, And Hate The Freedom Of The Czech Republic. And Therefore, We Must Work Together To Defend Ourselves. And By Remaining Strong And United And Tough, We'll Prevail.

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I Understand I'm Running Against A Person Who Is So Anxious To Become President, He Will Do Whatever It Takes.

I Make Decisions Based On What I Think Is Best For The Country.

We're Not Into Nation-building. We're Into Justice.

Nation Building

I Wanted To Come To Washington, D.c. And Help Be A Transformative President. And I Think History, When They Look Back, Will Say This Is A Fellow Who Knew How To Make Decisions, And Made Some Tough Ones, Stood By Them, Wasn't Driven By The Latest Opinion Poll, But Was Driven By Some Core Principles From Which He Would Not Deviate.

I View The Relationship With Canada As A Vital Relationship For The United States. The Relationship, Of Course, Is Defined Government-to-government. It's Also Defined People-to-people, And There's A Lot Of People In My Country Who Respect Canada And Have Great Relations With Canadians, And We Intend To Keep It That Way.

...the God I Know Is One That Promotes Peace And Freedom. But I Get Great Sustenance From My Personal Relationship. That Doesn't Make Me Think I'm A Better Person Than You Are, By The Way. Because One Of The Great Admonitions In The Good Book Is, Don't Try To Take A Speck Out Of Your Eye If I've Got A Log In My Own.

I Believe That We Will Succeed In Iraq, Because, One, The Iraqis Want To Live In A Free Society. And, Two, That The Iraqis Want To Take The Fight To The Enemy. And People Want Me To Put A Timetable On Things; That's A Huge Mistake. Putting A Timetable On This - On Our Stay There In Iraq Simply Emboldens The Enemy And Discourages Our Friends.

Pushing Legislation That Would Undercut Our Troops Just As We're Beginning To Make Progress In Baghdad.

One Of The Most Meaningful Things That's Happened To Me Since I've Been The Governor - The President - Governor - President. Oops. Ex-governor. I Went To Bethesda Naval Hospital To Give A Fellow A Purple Heart, And At The Same Moment I Watched Him-get A Purple Heart For Action In Iraq - And At That Same - Right After I Gave Him The Purple Heart, He Was Sworn In As A Citizen Of The United States - A Mexican Citizen, Now A United States Citizen.

And After September The 11th, The United States Congress Also Granted Me Additional Authority To Use Military Force Against Al Qaeda. . . .

I Heard There's Rumors On The Internets That We're Going To Have A Draft.

I Think Soft Power Definitely Can Work. But, You Know, It Depends On Who You're Dealing With. Some People Are So Intent Upon Power And Keeping Power That It's Very Difficult To Conduct Soft Power.

We're Taking Action Against Evil People. Because This Great Nation Of Many Religions Understands, Our War Is Not Against Islam, Or Against Faith Practiced By The Muslim People. Our War Is A War Against Evil. This Is Clearly A Case Of Good Versus Evil, And Make No Mistake About It - Good Will Prevail.

For Diplomacy To Be Effective, Words Must Be Credible - And No One Can Now Doubt The Word Of America.

People Make Suggestions On What To Say All The Time... Trust Me.

They've Seen Me Make Decisions, They've Seen Me Under Trying Times, They've Seen Me Weep, They've Seen Me Laugh, They've Seen Me Hug. And They Know Who I Am, And I Believe They're Comfortable With The Fact That They Know I'm Not Going To Shift Principles Or Shift Positions Based Upon Polls And Focus Groups.

If You Raise Taxes During A Recession, You Head To Depression.

Looking Across This Field, We See The Scale Of Heroism And Sacrifice. All Who Are Buried Here Understood Their Duty. All Stood To Protect America. And All Carried With Them Memories Of A Family That They Hope To Keep Safe By Their Sacrifice.

Freedom Of Action In Space Is As Important To The United States As Air Power And Sea Power.

Some Call This Civil War; Others Call It Emergency -- I Call It Pure Evil.

If You're A Christian, Jew Or Muslim, You're Equally An American. That's The Great Thing About America, Is The Right To Worship The Way You See Fit.

In Terms Of Trying To Re-create An Image, I Think That's A Waste Of Time. I Have No Interest In Doing That. The Decisions I Made Are Done.

I Have Made Education A Top Priority Of This Administration Because When We Get It Right, When Every Child Learns, America Will Be A More Hopeful Place.

The Oval Office Is A Place Where There's Been, Obviously, A Lot Of Amazing Experiences Over A Seven-and-a-half Year Period. My Presidency Is One Where I've Had To Make Some Very Tough Decisions. I Guess Some Presidencies Are Kind Of - Were Real Smooth, There Were No Real Big Issues. Well, That's Not The Way Mine Is.

I Was Very Fortunate To Have Had A Mother And Father Who Loved Me In Spite Of My Failings.

History Will Look Back, And I'm Fully Prepared To Accept Any Mistakes That History Judges To My Administration, Because The President Makes The Decisions, The President Has To Take The Responsibility.

The United States Is A Christian Nation Founded Upon Christian Principles And Beliefs.

I Ask You To Uphold The Values Of America And Remember Why So Many Have Come Here. We're In A Fight For Our Principles, And Our First Responsibility Is To Live By Them. No One Should Be Singled Out For Unfair Treatment Or Unkind Words Because Of Their Ethnic Background Or Religious Faith.

I Hear A Lot Of Talk About Civil War. I'm Concerned About That, Of Course. And I've Talked To A Lot Of People About It. And What I've Found From My Talks Are That The Iraqis Want A Unified Country And That The Iraqi Leadership Is Determined To Thwart The Efforts Of The Extremists And The Radicals.

It's Kind Of The Washington, D.c., Chattering Class. They Kind Of Talk Amongst Themselves.

It's Essential That We Do What's Right - Not Necessarily What Appears To Be Immediately Popular.

The United States Does Not Torture.

We're Fighting People That Hates Our Values, They Can't Stand What America Stands For.

This Case Has Had Full Analyzation And Has Been Looked At A Lot. I Understand The Emotionality Of Death Penalty Cases.

As Yesterday's Positive Report Card Shows, Childrens Do Learn When Standards Are High And Results Are Measured. —new York, Sept. 26, 2007

On The Issue Of Evolution, The Verdict Is Still Out On How God Created The Earth.

In Spite Of Conflicting Signals - And In Spite Of A Popular Culture That Sometimes Puts Down Their Innocence - Most Of Our Kids Are Good Kids. Large Numbers Do Volunteer Work. Nearly All Believe In God, And Most Practice Their Faith. Teen Pregnancy And Violence Are Actually Going Down. Across America, Under A Program Called True Love Waits, Nearly A Million Teens Have Pledged Themselves To Abstain From Sex Until Marriage.

When An 18-year-old Palestinian Girl Is Persuaded To Blow Herself Up, And In Doing So She Kills A 17-year-old Israeli Girl, We Are Watching The Future Itself Die!

... For Those Of Us Who Lived Through These Events, The Only Marker We'll Ever Need Is The Tick Of A Clock At The 46th Minute Of The Eighth Hour Of The 11th Day.

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