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And I Am An Optimistic Person. I Guess If You Want To Try To Find Something To Be Pessimistic About, You Can Find It, No Matter How Hard You Look, You Know?

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And I Am An Optimistic Person. I Guess If You Want To Try To Find Something To Be Pessimistic About, You Can Find It, No Matter How Hard You Look, You Know?

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I Do Solemnly Swear That I Will Faithfully Execute The Office Of President Of The United States, And Will To The Best Of My Ability, Preserve, Protect And Defend The Constitution Of The United States

Constitution Of The United States

Faith Is The Framework For Living. It Gives Us The Spirit And Heart That Affects Everything We Do. If Gives Us Hope Each Day. Faith Gives Us Purpose To Right Wrongs, To Preserve Our Families, And To Teach Our Children Values. Faith Gives Us Conscience To Keep Us Honest, Even When Nobody Is Looking. And, Faith Can Change Lives; I Know First Hand, Because Faith Changed Mine.

The Great Tradition Of America Is One Where People Can Worship The Way They Want To Worship. And If They Choose Not To Worship, They're Just As Patriotic As Your Neighbor. That Is An Essential Part Of Why We Are A Great Nation. If You're A Jew Or A Christian Or A Muslim, You're Equally American.

If The Iraqi Regime Is Able To Produce, Buy Or Steal An Amount Of Highly Enriched Uranium A Little Larger Than A Single Softball, [it] Could Have A Nuclear Weapon In Less Than A Year.

The Decisions I Made Are Done. And History Will Judge Whether Or Not They Were Correct. There's No Such Thing As Accurate Short-term History.

Think About That. Two Hundred And Eighty-five New Or Expanded Programs, $2 Trillion More In New Spending, And Not One New Bureaucrat To File Out The Forms Or Answer The Phones?

I Think That There Are Certain Principles Which Should Guide Decision-making For A President. One Such Principle Was That We're All God's Children, And Every Life Is Precious. To Me, That's A Moral Statement.

We Don't Need Mass Armies Anymore. We Replace It With More Effective Equipment.

So Community Colleges Are Accessible, They're Available, They're Affordable, And Their Curriculums Don't Get Stuck. In Other Words, If There's A Need For A Certain Kind Of Worker, I Presume Your Curriculums Evolved Over Time.

America Is A Friend To The People Of Iraq. Our Demands Are Directed Only At The Regime That Enslaves Them And Threatens Us. When These Demands Are Met, The First And Greatest Benefit Will Come To Iraqi Men, Women And Children.

There Is No Telling How Many Wars It Will Take To Secure Freedom In The Homeland.

I Don't Particularly Like It When People Put Words In My Mouth, Either, By The Way, Unless I Say It.

I Aim To Be A Competitive Nation.

I Believe We're Making Really Good Progress In Iraq.

The Iraqi Regime . . . Possesses And Produces Chemical And Biological Weapons. It Is Seeking Nuclear Weapons. We Know That The Regime Has Produced Thousands Of Tons Of Chemical Agents, Including Mustard Gas, Sarin Nerve Gas, Vx Nerve Gas.

Mass Destruction

How Do You Measure Whether Or Not A Strategy Of Economic Growth That Is Articulated By A Very Smart, Capable Economist Actually Yields Growth? You Can't. But You Can Influence.

Any Sign That Says We're Going To Leave Iraq Before The Job Is Done Simply Emboldens Terrorists And Creates A Certain Amount Of Doubt For People, So They Won't Take The Risk Necessary To Help A Civil Society Evolve In The Country.

Terrorists And Their Allies Believe The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights And The American Bill Of Rights And Every Charter Of Liberty Ever Written Are Lies To Be Burned And Destroyed And Forgotten.

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.

The Lure Of Heady Profits Of The Late 1990's Spawned Abuses And Excesses. With Strict Enforcement And Higher Ethical Standards, We Must Usher In A New Era Of Integrity In Corporate America.

Ethical Standards

I'm Not That Worried About [my Parents] Right Now Because They Are Happy People. I'm Pleased That In Their Later Years, In Spite Of Physical Ailments, They're Upbeat.

A Lot Of People In The Usa Probably Don't Understand How Important They Are To The Mortgage Markets. And It's Really Important For People To Have Confidence In The Mortgage Markets And That There Be Stability In The Mortgage Markets.

I'm The Decider, And I Decide What Is Best.

I Thought How Proud I Am To Be Standing Up Beside My Dad. Never Did It Occur To Me That He Would Become The Gist For Cartoonists.

I Would Have My Secretary Of Treasury Be In Touch With The Financial Centers, Not Only Here But At Home.

One Of The Things That I Will Have Ended My Public Service Time With Is A Group Of Friends, A Lot Of Friends. And I Want To Stay In Touch With Them And There's No Better Way To Communicate With Them Than Through Email.

Lots Of Friends

How Can You Possibly Have An International Agreement That's Effective Unless Countries Like China And India Are Not Full Participants?

After The Bombing, Most Iraqis Saw What The Perpetuators Of This Attack Were Trying To Do.

Obviously, Nu-que-lar Power Is, Uh, A Renewable Source Of Energy, And The Less Demand There Is For Non-renewable Sources Of Energy, Like Fossil Fuels, The Better It Off It Is For The American People.

We're Now Interested In Finding Those Who May Attack America And Arrest Them Before They Do. We've Had Over Nearly A Thousand People Have Been Detained In America And Questioned About Their Motives And Their Intentions.

People Say, Well, Do You Ever Hear Any Other Voices Other Than, Like, A Few People? Of Course I Do.

If Someone Came To Me And Said, "your Strategy In Your Post-presidency Is Brilliant," As If I Had Figured Out A Way To Make Me Look Better, To Me, That Analysis Is Amusing.

As A Matter Of Fact, The African Union Itself Estimated That Every Year Corruption Alone Costs Africa $148 Billion. If African Leaders Could Cut That In Half, They'll Find More Money Than What Tony Blair Is Trying To Raise For Them.

Russia's Most Precious Resource Is The Brain Power Of This Country. And You've Got A Lot Of It. It's Going To Take A Lot Of Brains In Russia To Create A Drain.

When It Comes To The Common Rights And Needs Of Men And Women, There Is No Clash Of Civilizations. The Requirements Of Freedom Apply Fully To Africa And Latin America And The Entire Islamic World. The Peoples Of The Islamic Nations Want And Deserve The Same Freedoms And Opportunities As People In Every Nation. And Their Governments Should Listen To Their Hopes.

The Terrorists Are Fighting Freedom With All Their Cunning And Cruelty Because Freedom Is Their Greatest Fear - And They Should Be Afraid, Because Freedom Is On The March.

This Is Still A Dangerous World. It's A World Of Madmen And Uncertainty And Potential Mental Losses.

Dangerous World

Their Sacrifice Was Great, But Not In Vain. All Americans And Every Free Nation On Earth Can Trace Their Liberty To The White Markers Of Places Like Arlington National Cemetery. And May God Keep Us Ever Grateful.

Our Intelligence Officials Estimate That Saddam Hussein Had The Materials To Produce As Much As 500 Tons Of Sarin, Mustard And Vx Nerve Agent.

Mass Destruction

Im A Strong Proponent Of The Restoration Of The Wetlands, For A Lot Of Reasons. Theres A Practical Reason, Though, When It Comes To Hurricanes: The Stronger The Wetlands, The More Likely The Damage Of The Hurricane.

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.

America Is Addicted To Oil...we Must Also Change How We Power Our Automobiles. We Will Increase Our Research In Better Batteries For Hybrid And Electric Cars And In Pollution-free Cars That Run On Hydrogen. We Will Also Fund Additional Research In Cutting-edge Methods Of Producing Ethanol, Not Just From Corn But From Wood Chips And Stalks Or Switch Grass.

If You Don't Feel Something Strongly You're Not Going To Achieve.

I Don't Think It's Good For America To Have A Former President Undermine A Current President.

I've Reminded The Prime Minister-the American People, Mr. Prime Minister, Over The Past Months That It Was Not Always A Given That The United States And America Would Have A Close Relationship.

We Face An Enemy That Is Brutal. There Is No Negotiation With These People. You Can't Try To Talk Reason Into These Totalitarians.

I Will Always Stand Firm To Protect The Sanctity Of Marriage. I Believe It Is Important To Work With People To Find Common Ground On Difficult Issues.

Intelligence Gathered By This And Other Governments Leaves No Doubt That The Iraq Regime Continues To Possess And Conceal Some Of The Most Lethal Weapons Ever Devised.

Mass Destruction

It's Important That The United States Not Forget The Lessons Of September The 11th, 2001. I Assure You, I'm Not Going To Forget Them.

All I Can Tell You Is When The Governor Calls, I Answer His Phone.

And Some Needs And Hurts Are So Deep They Will Only Respond To A Mentor's Touch Or A Pastor's Prayer. Church And Charity, Synagogue And Mosque, Lend Our Communities Their Humanity, And They Will Have An Honored Place In Our Plans And Laws.

Ours Is A Nation That Does Not Seek Revenge.

We Know That Men And Women Can Be Good Without Faith. We Know That.

I Wouldn't Join The International Criminal Court. This Is A Body Based In The Hague Where Unaccountable Judges, Prosecutors, Could Pull Our Troops, Our Diplomats Up For Trial. And I Wouldn't Join. And I Understand That In Certain Capitals Of, Around The World That That Wasn't A Popular Move. But It's The Right Move Not To Join A Foreign Court That Could, Where Our People Could Be Prosecuted.

You Are Either With Us Or You Are Against Us In The Fight Against Terror.

He Tried To Fool The United Nations, And Did For 12 Years, By Hiding These Weapons. And So, It's Going To Take Time To Find Them. But We Know He Had Them. And Whether He Destroyed Them, Moved Them, Or Hid Them, We're Going To Find Out The Truth.

Sixty Years Of Western Nations Excusing And Accommodating The Lack Of Freedom In The Middle East Did Nothing To Make Us Safe Because In The Long Run Stability Cannot Be Purchased At The Expense Of Liberty. ... The Global Wave Of Democracy Has Barely Reached The Arab States. For Too Long, Many People In That Region Have Been Victims And Subjects. They Deserve To Be Active Citizens.

Democracies Have

Anyway, I'm So Thankful, And So Gracious - I'm Gracious That My Brother Jeb Is Concerned About The Hemisphere As Well.

I Have Made A Lot Of Tactical Decisions That Historians Will Look Back And Say: He Shouldn't Have Done That. He Shouldn't Have Made That Decision. And I'll Take Responsibility For Them. I'm Human.

It's Important To Reach Out To Moderate Arab Nations, Like Jordan And Egypt, Saudi Arabia And Kuwait.

Either Well Succeed, Or We Wont Succeed. And The Definition Of Success As I Described Is Sectarian Violence Down. Success Is Not No Violence.

It's Important For Us To Explain To Our Nation That Life Is Important. It's Not Only Life Of Babies, But It's Life Of Children Living In, You Know, The Dark Dungeons Of The Internet.

I Think -- Tide Turning -- See, As I Remember -- I Was Raised In The Desert, But Tides Kind Of -- It's Easy To See A Tide Turn -- Did I Say Those Words?

Wall Street Got Drunk And Now It's Got A Hangover. And The Question Is, How Long Will It Sober Up And Not Try To Do Those Fancy Financial Instruments?

And This Is My Solemn Pledge: I Will Work To Build A Single Nation Of Justice And Opportunity. I Know This Is In Our Reach Because We Are Guided By A Power Larger Than Ourselves Who Creates Us Equal In His Image.

In Every Instance When My Administration Sees A Responsibility To Help People, We Will Look First To Faith-based Institutions, To Charities And To Community Groups That Have Shown Their Ability To Save And Change Lives.

The Problem With Golf Is I Have To Deal With A Humiliation Factor.

Iraq Is No Diversion. It Is A Place Where Civilization Is Taking A Decisive Stand Against Chaos And Terror, We Must Not Waver.

There's Adam Clymer, Major League Asshole From The New York Times.

I'm Also Not Very Analytical. You Know I Don't Spend A Lot Of Time Thinking About Myself, About Why I Do Things.

I Trust God Speaks Through Me. Without That, I Couldn't Do My Job.

I Don't Mind Comments Saying Things About Me. I Do Mind Them Saying Things About Those Young, Brave Men And Women Who Have Volunteered. That's Offensive To Me That People Would Say Those Kind Of Comments About Americans Who Have Volunteered To Take The Fight To The Enemy.

I'm Talking About Living Life To Its Fullest.

Live Life To Its Fullest

Freedom Itself Was Attacked This Morning By A Faceless Coward, And Freedom Will Be Defended.

There's This Kind Of Almost - Kind Of A Weird Kind Of Elitism That Says Well Maybe - Maybe Certain People In Certain Parts Of The World Shouldn't Be Free; Maybe It's Best Just To Let Them Sit In These Tyrannical Societies. And Our Foreign Policy Rejects That Concept. And We Don't Accept It. And So We're Working.

We Spent A Lot Of Time Talking About Africa, As We Should. Africa Is A Nation That Suffers From Incredible Disease.

You Teach A Child To Read, And He Or Her Will Be Able To Pass A Literacy Test.

I Can Look You In The Eye And Tell You I Feel I've Tried To Solve The Problem Diplomatically To The Max, And Would Have Committed Troops Both In Afghanistan And Iraq Knowing What I Know Today.

Families Is Where Our Nation Finds Hope, Where Wings Take Dream.

The Advance Of Human Freedom - The Great Achievement Of Our Time, And The Great Hope Of Every Time - Now Depends On Us. Our Nation - This Generation - Will Lift A Dark Threat Of Violence From Our People And Our Future. We Will Rally The World To This Cause By Our Efforts, By Our Courage. We Will Not Tire, We Will Not Falter, And We Will Not Fail.

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

Democrats Don't Want You To Know What Their Tax Plans Are. They Just Don't Want You To Know.

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.

It's Important To Listen To The Words Of The Enemy If You're In War.

I Think If You Know What You Believe, It Makes It A Lot Easier To Answer Questions. I Can't Answer Your Question.

A Tax Cut Is Really One Of The Anecdotes To Coming Out Of An Economic Illness.

I'm A Uniter Not A Divider. That Means When It Comes Time To Sew Up Your Chest Cavity, We Use Stitches As Opposed To Opening It Up.

Even Grief Recedes With Time And Grace. But Our Resolve Must Not Pass. Each Of Us Will Remember What Happened That Day, And To Whom It Happened. We'll Remember The Moment The News Came -- Where We Were And What We Were Doing. Some Will Remember An Image Of A Fire, Or A Story Of Rescue. Some Will Carry Memories Of A Face And A Voice Gone Forever.

It's Time To Restore Honor And Dignity To The White House.

The Freedom Movement Is Built Around The Principle Of Democracy And Universality Of Freedom.

I Try To Live A Faith-filled Life. I'm A Believer.

Golf Is A Game Of Integrity. And Golf Is A Game Of Forgiveness. I Think The High Standards Of Golf Remind People Of How Lucky They Are, Or How Fortunate They Are, To Be Able To Play The Game.

I Could Have Easily Not Run For President, And People Would Have Come Up And Said, "oh, Man, You Would Have Been A Great President." Or Even A Lousy President. But I Never Would Have Known Had I Not Chosen To Run. Part Of Life Is Seizing The Moment.

I Vowed To Our Countrymen That I Would Do Everything I Could To Protect The American People... That's Why I Said To Afghanistan: If You Harbor A Terrorist, You're Just As Guilty As The Terrorist.

Thousands Of Lives Were Suddenly Ended By Evil, Despicable Acts Of Terror. The Pictures Of Airplanes Flying Into Buildings, Fires Burning, Huge Structures Collapsing, Have Filled Us With Disbelief, Terrible Sadness And A Quiet, Unyielding Anger.

I Know How Hard It Is For You To Put Food On Your Family.

Verbosity Leads To Unclear, Inarticulate Things.

People Sometimes Have To Correct My English. I Knew I Had A Problem When Arnold Schwarzenegger Started Doing It.

If You Read With Empathy What Lincoln Went Through, Then You Realize What You're Going Through Is Nothing Compared To What He Went Through.

Tommy (thompson) Is A Good Listener, And He's A Pretty Good Actor, Too.

I'm Going To Put People In My Place, So When The History Of This Administration Is Written At Least There's An Authoritarian Voice Saying Exactly What Happened.

We Will Make No Distinction Between The Terrorists Who Committed These Acts And Those Who Harbour Them.

[people] Don't Judge You On What Would Have Happened In The Absence Of A Decision.

I Haven't Had A Chance To Talk, But I'm Confident We'll Get A Bill That I Can Live With If We Don't.

The Iraqis Needed To Know That We Weren't Going To Leave Them Alone. No Matter How Difficult It Was, The United States Would Help Them Realize The Universal Desire To Be Free. Now Of Course, If You Didn't Believe In The Universality Of Freedom, Then Of Course, You Wouldn't Act. I Care How They Live And I Believe A Free Iraq Will Be Transformative.

They Want The Federal Government Controlling The Social Security, Like It's Some Kind Of Federal Program.

Concentration Of Greenhouse Gases, Especially Co2, Have Increased Substantially Since The Beginning Of The Industrial Revolution. And The National Academy Of Sciences Indicates That The Increase Is Due In Large Part To Human Activity.

I Believe That People Whose Skins Aren't Necessarily - Are A Different Color Than White Can Self-govern.

People Love America. Sometimes They Don't Like The Decisions Made By America, But I Don't Think You Want A President Who Tries To Become Popular And Does The Wrong Thing.

Each Of Us Will Figure Out Our Own Way.

I Think By Not Participating In The Current Political Debate, Hopefully I'm Sending A Signal That Will Help Set A Tone.

Anyway, After We Go Out And Work Our Hearts Out, After You Go Out And Help Us Turn Out The Vote, After We've Convinced The Good Americans To Vote, And While They're At It, Pull That Old George W Lever, If I'm The One, When I Put My Hand On The Bible, When I Put My Hand On The Bible, That Day When They Swear Us In, When I Put My Hand On The Bible, I Will Swear To Not - To Uphold The Laws Of The Land.

America Is Successful Because Of The Hard Work And Creativity And Enterprise Of Our People.

Recognizing And Confronting Our History Is Important. Transcending Our History Is Essential. We Are Not Limited By What We Have Done, Or What We Have Left Undone. We Are Limited Only By What We Are Willing To Do.

I Glance At The Headlines Just To Kind Of Get A Flavor For What's Moving. I Rarely Read The Stories, And Get Briefed By People Who Are Probably Read The News Themselves.

I Talked About The Human Suffering In Iraq. And I Also Saw The Need To Advance A Freedom Agenda. Imagine A World In Which Saddam Hussein Was There, Stirring Up Even More Trouble In A Part Of The World That Had So Much Resentment And So Much Hatred That People Came And Killed 3,000 Of Our Citizens. I've Heard This Theory About Everything Was Just Fine Until We Arrived And The Stir-up-the-hornet's- Nest Theory. It Just Doesn't Hold Water, As Far As I'm Concerned. The Terrorists Attacked Us And Killed 3,000 Of Our Citizens Before We Started The Freedom Agenda In The Middle East.

My Answer Is Bring Them On.

I Began My First Cabinet Meeting Since The Terrorist Attacks. As I Stepped Into The Room, The Team Broke Out In Sustained Applause. I Was Surprised, And I Choked Up At Their Heartfelt Support. The Tears Flowed For The Second Time In Two Days.

Golf Is Something I Love. It's Been A Part Of My Family's History.

We Hope That Diplomacy Works Before You Ever Use Force. The Hardest Decision A President Makes Is Ever To Use Force.

The Legislature's Job Is To Write Law. It's The Executive Branch's Job To Interpret Law.

What I Really Think Is Going To Happen Over Time Is Technology Is Going To Change The Way We Live For The Good For The Environment.

When It Comes Time To Protecting The Homeland, The United States Of America Must Be Right 100 Percent Of The Time. And The Enemy, Which Desires To Strike Us Again, Only Has To Be Right Once.

When John Murtha, For Example, Said The Marines Are Killing Innocent Civilians In Cold Blood.

I'm Forever A Former President And I Understand That, But At This Point In My Post-presidency, I Don't Want To Be Involved With Politics.

Freeing People From Oppression And Despair Is Eternally Right.

Russia Is No Longer Our Enemy And Therefore We Shouldn't Be Locked Into A Cold War Mentality That Says We Keep The Peace By Blowing Each Other Up. In My Attitude, That's Old, That's Tired, That's Stale.

Reading History While You Make History Can Teach You A Lot.

Reading History

A Good Run Adds A Little Bounce To My Step. I Get A Certain Amount Of Self-esteem From It.

I Know What I Believe. I Will Continue To Articulate What I Believe And What I Believe - I Believe What I Believe Is Right.

Renewing The Promise Of America Begins With Upholding The Dignity Of Human Life.

I Told All Four [congressional Leaders] That There Are Going To Be Some Times Where We Don't Agree With Each Other, But That's Ok. If This Were A Dictatorship, It Would Be A Heck Of A Lot Easier, Just So Long As I'm The Dictator.

Every Nation In Every Region Now Has A Decision To Make. Either You Are With Us, Or You Are With The Terrorists.

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.

I Think We're Making Progress. We Understand Where The Power Of This Country Lay. It Lies In The Hearts And Souls Of Americans. It Must Lay In Our Pocketbooks. It Lies In The Willingness For People To Work Hard.

We're Concerned About Aids Inside Our White House, Make No Mistake About It.

Americans Should Not Expect One Battle, But A Lengthy Campaign, Unlike Any Other We Have Ever Seen. It May Include Dramatic Strikes, Visible On Tv, And Covert Operations, Secret Even In Success.

Running For President Was A Good Decision.

I'll Be Long Gone Before Some Smart Person Ever Figures Out What Happened Inside This Oval Office.

As Hope Kindles Hope, Millions More Will Find It. By Our Efforts, We Have Lit A Fire As Well - A Fire In The Minds Of Men. It Warms Those Who Feel Its Power, It Burns Those Who Fight Its Progress, And One Day This Untamed Fire Of Freedom Will Reach The Darkest Corners Of Our World.

All Human Life Is Precious.

Life Is Precious

Look At Other Countries That Have Tried To Have Federally Controlled Health Care. They Have Poor-quality Health Care. Our Health-care System Is The Envy Of The World Because We Believe In Making Sure That The Decisions Are Made By Doctors And Patients, Not By Officials In The Nation's Capital.

[islam] Inspires Countless Individuals To Lead Lives Of Honesty, Integrity, And Morality.

I Believe The World Would Have Been A Lot Worse Off If Saddam [hussein] Were In Power Today.

I Think It's Important For Those Of Us In A Position Of Responsibility To Be Firm In Sharing Our Experiences, To Understand That The Babies Out Of Wedlock Is A Very Difficult Chore For Mom And Baby Alike... I Believe We Ought To Say There Is A Different Alternative Than The Culture That Is Proposed By People Like Miss Wolf In Society... And, You Know, Hopefully, Condoms Will Work, But It Hasn't Worked.

The Best Way To Encourage Economic Vitality And Growth Is To Let People Keep Their Own Money.when You Spend Your Own Money, Somebody's Got To Manufacture That Which You're Spending It On. You See, More Money In The Private Sector Circulating Makes It More Likely That Our Economy Will Grow. And, Incredibly Enough, Some Want To Take Away Part Of Those Tax Cuts. They've Been Reading The Wrong Textbook. You Don't Raise Somebody's Taxes In The Middle Of A Recession. You Trust People With Their Own Money. And, By The Way, That Money Isn't The Government's Money; It's The People's Money.

A Lot Of Times In The Rhetoric, People Forget The Facts. And The Facts Are That Thousands Of Small Businesses-hispanically Owned Or Otherwise-pay Taxes At The Highest Marginal Rate.

You'll Hear People Say It's Racist To Test. Folks, It's Racist Not To Test. Because Guess Who Gets Shuffled Through The System Oftentimes? Children Whose Parents Don't Speak English As A First Language, Inner-city Kids. It's So Much Easier To Quit On Somebody Than To Remediate.

I Meant It When I Said She Was The Greatest First Lady Ever. Because She Viewed The Presidency And Being First Lady As An Opportunity To Improve People's Lives. It Wasn't A Burden. She Put Her Heart And Soul Into The Experience, Just Like I Did.

I Do Know That It’s Important For Us To Support The Iraqi People, Who Have Shown Incredible Courage In Their Desire To Live In A Free Society. And If We Ever Give Up The Desire To Help People Who Live In Freedom, We Will Have Lost Our Soul As A Nation, As Far As I’m Concerned.

I Want To Remind You All That In Order To Fight And Win The War, It Requires An Expenditure Of Money That Is Commiserate With Keeping A Promise To Our Troops To Make Sure That They're Well Paid, Well Trained, Well Equipped.

America Will Never Seek A Permission Slip To Defend The Security Of Our People.

I Think, Not Only Al Qaida Have An Ideology; They Have Tactics Necessary To Spread Their Ideology. And It Would Be A Huge Mistake For The United States To Leave The Region, To Concede Territory To The Terrorists, To Not Confront Them.

After All, This Is A Guy That Tried To Kill My Dad At One Time.

Our Two Nations Have A Lot In Common, When You Think About It. We Were Both Founded By Immigrants Escaping Religious Persecution In Other Lands. We Both Have Built Vibrant Democracies. Both Our Countries Are Founded On Certain Basic Beliefs, That There Is An Almighty God Who Watches Over The Affairs Of Men And Values Every Life. These Ties Have Made Us Natural Allies, And These Ties Will Never Be Broken.

No Matter How Advanced Our Economy Might Be, No Matter How Sophisticated Our Equipment Becomes, For The Foreseeable Future We Will Still Depend On Fossil Fuels.

We May Discover Resources On The Moon Or Mars That Will Boggle The Imagination, That Will Test Our Limits To Dream. And The Fascination Generated By Further Exploration Will Inspire Our Young People To Study Math, And Science, And Engineering And Create A New Generation Of Innovators And Pioneers.

I Was Raised In The West. The West Of Texas. It's Pretty Close To California. In More Ways Than Washington, D.c., Is Close To California.

I Want Him [saddam Hussein]. I Want - I Want Justice. There Is An Old Poster Seen Out West. As I Recall, It Said, Wanted Dead Or Alive.

We Will Keep A Commitment To Pluralism And Not Discriminate For Or Against Methodist Or Mormons Or Muslims Or Good People With No Faith At All.

We've Been Able To Watch On Our Television Screens Sophisticated Weaponry Find A Building; And We've Seen Dramatic Reports From The Front Where Pulitzer Prize-to-be Winning Reporters Stood Up And Declared, The United States Is Attacked, And All That.

And, Again, I Don't Know Where He [osama Bin Laden] Is. I — I'll Repeat What I Said. I Truly Am Not That Concerned About Him.

Osama Bin Laden

I Dont Want To Win? If That Were The Case Why The Heck Am I On The Bus 16 Hours A Day, Shaking Thousands Of Hands, Giving Hundreds Of Speeches, Getting Pillared In The Press And Cartoons And Still Staying On Message To Win?

I Really Don't Want To In The Press, Genuinely Don't Want To Be In The Press.

States Should Have The Right To Enact Laws... Particularly To End The Inhumane Practice Of Ending A Life That Otherwise Could Live.

It's Been A Hard Lesson For Me , But Contrary Quite Frankly To What Is A Common Practice In Politics, I Can Tell From My Own Experience, It Is Better To Stay Away From Personalities.

There's No Question That The Minute I Got Elected, The Storm Clouds On The Horizon Were Getting Nearly Directly Overhead.

I Didn't Grow Up In The Ocean -- As A Matter Of Fact -- Near The Ocean -- I Grew Up In The Desert. Therefore, It Was A Pleasant Contrast To See The Ocean. And I Particularly Like It When I'm Fishing.

Sometimes In This World You Make Unpopular Decisions Because You Think They're Right.

One Of The Biggest Sacrifices In Running For President, If There Is One, Is The Loss Of Anonymity.

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.

... 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.

So Long As I'm The President, My Measure Of Success Is Victory -- And Success.

What I'm Telling You Is There's Too Many Junk Lawsuits Suing Too Many Doctors.

We'll Let Our Friends Be The Peacekeepers And The Great Country Called America Will Be The Pacemakers.

There Are Some Monuments Where The Land Is So Widespread, They Just Encompass As Much As Possible. And The Integral Part Of The - The Precious Part, So To Speak - I Guess All Land Is Precious, But The Part That The People Uniformly Would Not Want To Spoil, Will Not Be Despoiled. But There Are Parts Of The Monument Lands Where We Can Explore Without Affecting The Overall Environment.

Look, History Is Interesting. I Read Three Books On George Washington Last Year. And My Opinion Is That If They're Still Analyzing The First President, The 43rd President Ought To Be Doing What He Thinks Is Right. And Eventually, Historians Will Come And Realize Whether... The Decisions I Made Made Sense.

Men Are Like Bank Accounts. Without A Lot Of Money They Don't Generate A Lot Of Interest.

It's Not The Governor’s Role To Decide Who Goes To Heaven. That’s God’s Role.

I Do Not Believe The Promises Of The Declaration Of Independence Are Just For The Strong, The Independent, The Healthy. They Are For Everyone-including Unborn Children. We Are A Society With Enough Compassion And Wealth And Love To Care For Both Mothers And Their Children, To Seek The Promise And Potential In Every Life.

We'll Succeed Unless We Quit.

I Think It's Very Important For People Who Are Serving (in Office) To Make Sure There's A Separation Of Church And State.

There's Not As Much Money In Washington As They're Used To Be!

Activist Judges And Local Officials In Some Parts Of The Country Are Not Letting Up In Their Efforts To Redefine Marriage For The Rest Of America-and Neither Should Defenders Of Traditional Marriage Flag In Their Efforts.

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.

The Face Of Terror Is Not The True Faith Of Islam. That's Not What Islam Is All About. Islam Is Peace. These Terrorists Don't Represent Peace. They Represent Evil And War.

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It Is Written That Adversity Introduces Us To Ourselves.

Too Many Of Our Children Cannot Read. Reading Is The Building Block, And It Must Be The Foundation For Education Reform.

We're Going To Get [bin Laden]. Dead Or Alive, It Doesn't Matter To Me.

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I Sent American Troops To Iraq To Make Its People Free, Not To Make Them American. Iraqis Will Write Their Own History And Find Their Own Way.

My God, The Man Is A Fascist - A Fascist, I Tell You.

As Young Americans, You Have An Important Responsibility, Which Is To Become Good Citizens.

Those Who Feel Like They Can Intimidate Our Fellow Citizens To Take Out Their Anger Don't Represent The Best Of America, They Represent The Worst Of Humankind, And They Should Be Ashamed Of That Kind Of Behavior.

Ronald Reagan Was A Great Role Model For Respublicans Party, And I Think For Most People. But He Was A Fellow That The American Public Just Intuitively Loved So Much, That He Could Always Get Credit.

I've Thought A Lot About What It Means To Be The President. I Also Understand An Administration Is Not One Person But An Administration Is Dedicated Citizens Who Are Called By The President To Serve The Country, To Serve A Cause Greater Than Self. And So I've Thought About An Administration Of People Who Represent All America, But People Who Understand My Compassionate And Conservative Philosophy.

Suiciders Are Willing To Kill Innocent Life In Order To Send The Projection That This Is An Impossible Mission.

The Easiest Time To Be Faithful Is During A Time Of Crisis. The Hardest Time For Faith Is When All Is Well.

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