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I Believe Law-abiding Citizens Ought To Be Able To Own A Gun. I Believe In Background Checks At Gun Shows Or Anywhere To Make Sure That Guns Don't Get In The Hands Of People That Shouldn't Have Them.

-George W. Bush

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I Believe Law-abiding Citizens

George W. Bush

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I Believe Law-abiding Citizens Ought To Be Able To Own A Gun. I Believe In Background Checks At Gun Shows Or Anywhere To Make Sure That Guns Don't Get In The Hands Of People That Shouldn't Have Them.

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I'm Telling America We Need To Not Discriminate Against Faith-based Programs. We Need To Welcome Them So Our Society Is More Wholesome, More Welcoming, And More Hopeful For Every Single Citizen.

There Is Some Who Say That Perhaps Freedom Is Not Universal. Maybe It's Only Western People That Can Self-govern. Maybe It's Only, You Know, White-guy Methodists Who Are Capable Of Self-government. I Reject That Notion.

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Sometimes Armchair Quarterbacks Are Doing It To Enhance Their Own Image. I'm Just Not Comfortable With That Idea.

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There Are Limits To The Smiles And Scowls Of Diplomacy. Armies And Missiles Are Not Stopped By Stiff Notes Of Condemnation. They Are Held In Check By Strength And Purpose And The Promise Of Swift Punishment.

Ours Is A Nation That Does Not Seek Revenge.

I Want To Make It Clear To People That The Idea Of Putting Subliminable Messages Into Ads Is Ridiculous.

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I Was Popular At Some Times And Not So Popular At Other Times. But What Mattered Was Trying To Solve Problems And Deal With Circumstances. Some Of Which I Was Able To Anticipate. Some Of Which Caught Us Totally By Surprise.

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I Understand How Democracy Works. Quite A Little Bit Of Criticism In It, Which Is Fine. That's Fine. That's Part Of The Process. But I Have Every Right, As Do My Administration, To Make It Clear What The Consequences Would Be Of Policy. And If We Think Somebody Is Strong Or Doesn't See The World The Way It Is, We'll Continue To Point That Out To People.

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I'm Uncomfortable Trying To Rush Change Of Perception, Except To The Extent That I'm Going To Write A Book.

I Want You To Know That Farmers Are Not Going To Be Secondary Thoughts To A Bush Administration. They Will Be In The Forethought Of Our Thinking.

History Is Moving, And It Will Tend Toward Hope, Or Tend Toward Tragedy.

Verbosity Leads To Unclear, Inarticulate Things.

You've Got To Be Pretty Hopeless To Become A Suicide Bomber.

Suicide Bombers

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.

I Realize I Will Never Regain My Anonymity But I Can Certainly Give It A Try. And It's A Lot Of Fun To Give It A Try.

The All-volunteer Army Works. It Works Particularly When We Pay Our Troops Well.

There Seems To Be A Lot Of Name-calling Going On, But I Want To Remind You What Our Good Dad Told Me One Time. Labels Are For Soup Cans.

Only A Liberal Senator From Massachusetts Would Say That A 49 Percent Increase In Funding For Education Was Not Enough.

Education Funding

I Was Not Elected To Serve One Party.

The War On Terror Involves Saddam Hussein Because Of The Nature Of Saddam Hussein, The History Of Saddam Hussein, And His Willingness To Terrorize Himself.

Free Market Capitalism Is Far More Than Economic Theory. It Is The Engine Of Social Mobility-the Highway To The American Dream.

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

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

The Great Contest For The Presidency Is About The Future, Who Can Lead, Who Can Get Things Done.

I Am A War President.

We Run A Danger Of Trying To Say The Casualties Are Less Than Other Wars Or More Than Expected. It's Just Everybody Matters, Every Person Matters, And What Really Matters Is Having The Strategy And The Will To Make Sure Any Death Is Not - Is Honored By Achieving An Objective.

I Confirmed To The Prime Minister That We Appreciate Our Friendship.

Because The Union Of A Man And Woman Deserves An Honored Place In Our Society, I Support The Protection Of Marriage Against Activist Judges. And I Will Continue To Appoint Federal Judges Who Know The Difference Between Personal Opinion And The Strict Interpretation Of The Law.

Personal Opinions

We Increased Expenses, Particularly In Two Areas: The Military. If I Put Somebody In Harm's Way, They're Going To Get The Best, As Far As I'm Concerned.

I Regret Not Finding Osama Bin Laden.

Osama Bin Laden

Over My Tenure As Governor, I Have Come Not Only To Respect The Political Muscle Of The Federation; I've Come To Respect The Brains. All Of Us Depend On Your Efforts And Energies.

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 Think It's Important To Bring Somebody From Outside The System, The Judicial System, Somebody That Hasn't Been On The Bench And, Therefore, There's Not A Lot Of Opinions For People To Look At.

After The Chaos And Carnage Of September 11th, It Is Not Enough To Serve Our Enemies With Legal Papers.

As I Mentioned We Have Arrested Or Detained Over 1,000 People Here In America To Determine To Find Out What They Know.

One Of The Interesting Initiatives We've Taken In Washington, D.c., Is We've Got These Vampire-busting Devices. A Vampire Is A-a Cell Deal You Can Plug In The Wall To Charge Your Cell Phone.

I'm Going To Spend A Lot Of Time Trying To Explain As Best I Can Why It's Important For Us To Succeed In Iraq. I'm Going To Do What I Think Is Right, And If, You Know, If People Don't Like Me For It, That's Just The Way It Is.

After All, Religion Has Been Around A Lot Longer Than Darwinism.

Deeply Impressed With The Blessing Which We Enjoy, And Of Which We Have Much Manifold Proofs, My Mind Is Irresistibly Drawn To That Almighty Being, The Great Source Source From Whence They Proceed And Whom Our Most Grateful Acknowledgements Are Due.

I Saw A Threat In Saddam Hussein. Members Of The United States Congress From Both Political Parties Saw That Same Threat. The United Nation's Saw The Threat. I Made The Right Decision In Getting Saddam Hussein Out Of Power.

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

Those Who Make War Against The United States Have Chosen Their Own Destruction.

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.

I Want To Remind You Right Quick What This Country Has Been Through, And The Challenges This Economy Had Faced Over The Last Three Years. First, We Went Through A Recession. That Means We Were Going Backwards.

If There's Any Comparison Between The Compassion And Decency Of The American People And The Terrorist Tactics Of Extremists, It's Flawed Logic. It's Just I Simply Can't Accept That. It's Unacceptable To Think That There's Any Kind Of Comparison Between The Behavior Of The United States Of America And The Action Of Islamic Extremists Who Kill Innocent Women And Children To Achieve An Objective.

Forms Of Government Matter, In My Opinion. It Matters How -- The Nature Of The Government In Which People Live.

Some Say That By Fighting The Terrorists Abroad Since September The 11th, We Only Stir Up A Hornets' Nest. But The Terrorists Who Struck That Day Were Stirred Up Already. If America Were Not Fighting Terrorists In Iraq And Afghanistan And Elsewhere, What Would These Thousands Of Killers Do - Suddenly Begin Leading Productive Lives Of Service And Charity? ... We Are Dealing Here With Killers Who Have Made The Death Of Americans The Calling Of Their Lives.

Productive Life

The More You Defend In The Face Of A Critical Audience, The More You Polarize.

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

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've Heard The Call. I Believe God Wants Me To Run For President.

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.

If A Person Doesn't Have The Capacity That We All Want That Person To Have, I Suspect Hope Is In The Far Distant Future, If At All.

The Only Things That I Can Tell You Is That Every Case I Have Reviewed I Have Been Comfortable With The Innocence Or Guilt Of The Person That I've Looked At. I Do Not Believe We've Put A Guilty ... I Mean Innocent Person To Death In The State Of Texas.

It's The Afghan National Army That Went Into Najaf And Did The Work There.

By Promoting Liberty Abroad, We Will Build A Safer World. By Encouraging Liberty At Home, We Will Build A More Hopeful America.

I Respect Every Soldier, From Every Country, Who Serves Beside Us In The Hard Work Of History. America Is Grateful, And America Will Not Forget.

Self-government Relies, In The End, On The Governing Of The Self.

I'm Comfortable With How I Lived My Life As The President.

Thank You, Your Holiness. Awesome Speech.

What Ends Up Happening Is People Form Images And The Image They Form Is, In Some Ways, What They Want It To Be. The Idea Of Trying To Correct The Image Is Something I'm Not Interested In Doing.

The Suicide Bombings Have Increased. There's Too Many Of Them.

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

I Like To Tell People When The Final History Is Written On Iraq, It Will Look Like Just A Comma Because There Is - My Point Is, There's A Strong Will For Democracy.

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

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

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