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I Believe It Is In The National Interest That Government Stand Side-by-side With People Of Faith Who Work To Change Lives For The Better. I Understand In The Past, Some In Government Have Said Government Cannot Stand Side-by-side With People Of Faith. Let Me Put It More Bluntly, Government Can't Spend Money On Religious Programs Simply Because There's A Rabbi On The Board, Cross On The Wall, Or A Crescent On The Door. I Viewed This As Not Only Bad Social Policy - Because Policy By-passed The Great Works Of Compassion And Healing That Take Place - I Viewed It As Discrimination.

-George W. Bush

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George W. Bush

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I Believe It Is In The National Interest That Government Stand Side-by-side With People Of Faith Who Work To Change Lives For The Better. I Understand In The Past, Some In Government Have Said Government Cannot Stand Side-by-side With People Of Faith. Let Me Put It More Bluntly, Government Can't Spend Money On Religious Programs Simply Because There's A Rabbi On The Board, Cross On The Wall, Or A Crescent On The Door. I Viewed This As Not Only Bad Social Policy - Because Policy By-passed The Great Works Of Compassion And Healing That Take Place - I Viewed It As Discrimination.

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Rarely Is The Question Asked: Is Our Children Learning?

I Think It's Important To Promote A Culture Of Life. I Think A Hospitable Society Is A Society Where Every Being Counts And Every Person Matters. I Believe The Ideal World Is One In Which Every Child Is Protected In Law And Welcomed To Life. I Understand There's Great Differences On This Issue Of Abortion. But I Believe Reasonable People Can Come Together And Put Good Law In Place That Will Help Reduce The Number Of Abortions.

Imagine A World In Which You Had Saddam Hussein, Who Had The Capacity To Make A Weapon Of Mass Destruction, Who Was Paying Suiciders To Kill Innocent Life. Imagine What The World Would Be Like With Him In Power. The Idea Is To Try To Help Change The Middle East. Part Of The Reason We Went Into Iraq Was We Thought He Had Weapons Of Mass Destruction. It Turns Out He Didn't, But He Had The Capacity To Make Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

I'm Hopeful. I Know There Is A Lot Of Ambition In Washington, Obviously. But I Hope The Ambitious Realize That They Are More Likely To Succeed With Success As Opposed To Failure.

Well, My Message Is, Is That If You Harbor A Terrorist, You're A Terrorist. If You Feed A Terrorist, You're A Terrorist. If You Develop Weapons Of Mass Destruction That You Want To Terrorize The World, You'll Be Held Accountable. . . . If Anybody Harbors A Terrorist, They're A Terrorist. If They Fund A Terrorist, They're A Terrorist. If They House Terrorists, They're Terrorists. I Mean, I Can't Make It Any More Clearly To Other Nations Around The World. If They Develop Weapons Of Mass Destruction That Will Be Used To Terrorize Nations, They Will Be Held Accountable.

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What We Republicans Should Stand For Is Growth In The Economy. We Ought To Make The Pie Higher.

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

The Budget Caps Were Busted, Mightily So. And We Are Reviewing With People Like Judd Gregg From New Hampshire And Others Some Budgetary Reform Measures That Will Reinstate - You Know, Possibly Reinstate Budgetary Discipline. But The Caps No Longer - The Caps, I Guess They're There. But They Didn't Mean Much.

This Notion That The United States Is Getting Ready To Attack Iran Is Simply Ridiculous. And Having Said That, All Options Are On The Table

The British Government Has Learned That Saddam Hussein Recently Sought Significant Quantities Of Uranium From Africa.

I Don't Think Our Troops Ought To Be Used For What's Called Nation Building.

There Was No Evidence That Saddam Hussein Was Involved With The Attack Of 9/11, I've Never Said That And Never Made That Case Prior To Going Into Iraq.

First, We Would Not Accept A Treaty That Would Not Have Been Ratified, Nor A Treaty That I Thought Made Sense For The Country.

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.

Having Purpose. I Had Purpose During My Presidency, And I've Got Purpose After My Presidency.

[saddam Hussein] Could Have Easily Reconstituted A Program. He Was A Threat To Peace Before We Went In. He'd Have Been A Threat To Peace Had We Left Him In Power. Oftentimes History Judges You On The Decisions You Make.

Decisions You Make

Well, I Think The Most Realistic Ways To Keep Them [saddam Hussien & Slobadon Milisevic] Isolated In The World Of Public Opinion And To Work With Our Alliance Is To Keep Them Isolated. I'm Just As Frustrated As Many Americans Are That Saddam Hussein Still Lives. I Think We Ought To Keep The Pressure On Him. I Will Tell You This: If We Catch Him Developing Weapons Of Mass Destruction In Any Way, Shape Or Form, I'll Deal With That In A Way That He Won't Like.

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One Principle Is The Universality Of Freedom. I'm A Freedom Lover.

The United States Of America Will Never Be Intimidated By Thugs And Assassins. The Killers Will Fail, And The Iraqi People Will Live In Freedom.

Border Relations Between Canada And Mexico Have Never Been Better.

America Was Targeted For Attack Because We're The Brightest Beacon For Freedom And Opportunity In The World, And No One Will Keep That Light From Shining.

The United States Of America Is Engaged In A War Against An Extremist Group Of Folks.

Extremist Groups

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

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