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I Just Didn't Want To Get Out There Anymore; I Didn't Want To Get Back Into What I Call 'the Swamp.' And The Other Reason Why Is I Don't Think It's Good For The Presidency For A Former President To Be Opining About His Successor. President Obama's Got Plenty Of Critics - And I'm Just Not Gonna Be One.

I Teamed Up With The Pga Of America To Help Promote A Weekend Of Golf That Raises Scholarship Money For Kids Who Lost A Parent Or Whose Parent Was Severely Wounded In Combat.

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It Is Written That Adversity Introduces Us To Ourselves.

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Reading Is The Basics For All Learning.

The Challenge In Iraq Is To Provide A Security Plan Such That A Political Process Can Go Forward. I'm Sure You All Are Tired Of Hearing Me Say 12 Million Iraqi Voted. But It's An Indication About The Desire For People To Live In A Free Society. That's What That Means. The Only Way To Defeat Al Qaida Ideology In The Long Term Is To Defeat It Through Another Ideology, A Competing Ideology, One That - Where Government Responds To The Will Of The People.

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Mass Destruction

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Other Countries

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Mass Destruction

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Culture Of Life Is Really Important For A Country To Have If It's Going To Be A Hospitable Society.

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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.

I Believe That Marriage Has Served Society Well, And I Believe It Is Important To Affirm That, That Marriage Between A Man And A Woman Is The Ideal. And The Job Of The President Is To Drive Policy Toward The Ideal.

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I've Been In The Bible Every Day Since I've Been The President.

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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.

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

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You Work Three Jobs? Uniquely American, Isn't It? I Mean, That Is Fantastic That You're Doing That." To A Divorced Mother Of Three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

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islam, As Practiced By The Vast Majority Of People, Is A Peaceful Religion.

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I Promise You I Will Listen To What Has Been Said Here, Even Though I Wasn't Here.

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Mass Destruction

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Congratulations

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Catholic Schools Carry Out A Great Mission, To Serve God By Building Knowledge And Character... By Teaching The Word Of God, You Prepare Your Students To Follow A Path Of Virtue.

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I'm Absolutely Confident That Everybody That's Been Put To Death Is Two Things: One, They're Guilty Of The Crime Charged, And, Secondly, They Had Full Access To Our Courts, Both State And Federal.

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Thousands Of Trained Killers Are Plotting To Attack Us, And This Terrible Knowledge Requires Us To Act Differently.

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The Advance Of Freedom Is The Great Story Of Our Time

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We Have Set Out To Promote The Work Of Community And Faith-based Charities. Government Cannot Be Replaced By Charities, But It Can Welcome Them As Partners Instead Of Resenting Them As Rivals.

God Is Not On The Side Of Any Nation, Yet We Know He Is On The Side Of Justice... Our Finest Moments Have Come When We Faithfully Served The Cause Of Justice For Our Own Citizens, And For The People Of Other Lands.

It's Important For The Writers Of The Presidential Daily Brief To Feel Comfortable That The Documents Will Never Be Politicized And/or Unnecessarily Exposed For Public Purview.

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Political Humor

I Think War Is A Dangerous Place.

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Our Enemies Send Other People's Children On Missions Of Suicide And Murder. They Embrace Tyranny And Death As A Cause And A Creed. We Stand For A Different Choice - Made Long Ago, On The Day Of Our Founding. We Affirm It Again Today. We Choose Freedom And The Dignity Of Every Life.

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.

I Said You Were A Man Of Peace. I Want You To Know I Took Immense Crap For That.

I Said, Going Into Iraq, "we've Got To Take Threats Seriously Before They Full Materialize." I Saw A Threat. I Fully Believe It Was The Right Decision To Remove Saddam Hussein, And I Fully Believe The World Is Better Off Without Him.

Because Marriage Is A Sacred Institution And The Foundation Of Society, It Should Not Be Redefined By Activist Judges. For The Good Of Families, Children And Society, I Support A Constitutional Amendment To Protect The Institution Of Marriage.

This Is A War Between Good And Evil. And We Have Made It Clear To The World That We Will Stand Strong On The Side Of Good, And We Expect Other Nations To Join Us. This Is Not A War Between Our World And Their World. It Is A War To Save The World.

People Shouldn't Read Into Venue Locations Someone's Heart.

When Your Economy Is Kind Of Ooching Along, It's Important To Let People Have More Of Their Own Money.

Usa Have Got A Comprehensive Strategy To Not Only Chase Down The Al Qaida, Wherever It Exists - But To Make Sure That Countries That Harbor Terrorists Are Held To Account.

If I Were A Candidate For Running, I'd Say, "look At What The Economy Has Done." It's Strong. We've Created A Lot Of Jobs. I'd Be Telling People That The Democrats Will Raise Your Taxes. I'd Be Reminding People That Tax Cuts Have Worked In Terms Of Stimulating The Economy. I'd Be Reminding People There's A Philosophical Difference Between Those Who Want To Raise Taxes And Have The Government Spend The Money, And Those Of Us Who Say, "you Get To Spend The Money The Way You Want To See Fit. It's Your Money."

There's Not Going To Be Enough People In The System To Take Advantage Of People Like Me.

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.

The Fundamental Question Facing Iraq Government Is Whether Or Not We Will Stand With Reformers Across The Region. It's Really The Task. And We're Going To Stand With This Government.

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.

King Fahd Was A Man Of Wisdom And A Leader Who Commanded Respect Throughout The Entire World. He Was A Friend And Strong Ally Of The United States For Decades.

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?

This Storm Is Dangerous

I Expect You To Work Hard On Our Agenda.

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

Education Funding

Liberty Is The Right And Hope Of All Humanity.

I Think It Was In The Rose Garden Where I Issued This Brilliant Statement: If I Had A Magic Wand -- But The President Doesn't Have A Magic Wand. You Just Can't Say, 'low Gas.'

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.

I Believe In The Universality Of Freedom And Therefore Want To Be Involved In The Freedom Movement.

These Aren't Joyous Times When We Have War In Iraq. These Are Challenging Times, And They're Difficult Times, And They're Straining The Psyche Of Our Country. I Understand That.

Free Societies Are Hopeful Societies. And Free Societies Will Be Allies Against These Hateful Few Who Have No Conscience, Who Kill At The Whim Of A Hat.

As A President, My Job Is Not To Promote A Religion, My Job Is To Call People To Serve Our Country.

Thank You, Your Holiness. Awesome Speech.

Big Texas (nolan Ryan) Is Here. The Reason I Like To Keep Nolan Around Is He Is A Reminder That When We Got Done With The Sammy Sosa Trade, There Was Still Some Talent On The Rangers.

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

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

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.

Too Many Good Docs Are Getting Out Of The Business. Too Many Ob/gyns Aren't Able To Practice Their Love With Women All Across The Country.

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 Will Be No Going Back To The Era Before September The 11th, 2001 - To False Comfort In A Dangerous World.

Dangerous World

We Will Not Waver, We Will Not Tire, We Will Not Falter, And We Will Not Fail. Peace And Freedom Will Prevail.

My Job Is A Decision-making Job, And As A Result, I Make A Lot Of Decisions.

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I Couldn't Imagine Somebody Like Osama Bin Laden Understanding The Joy Of Chanukah.

There Are Jobs Americans Arent Doing. ... If Youve Got A Chicken Factory, A Chicken-plucking Factory, Or Whatever You Call Them, You Know What Im Talking About.

Perceptions Change With Time And You Can't Rush It, In My Judgment.

The Greatest Source Of America's Generosity Is Not Our Government; It's The Good Heart Of The American People.

Mr. Vice President, In All Due Respect, It Is-i'm Not Sure 80 Percent Of The People Get The Death Tax. I Know This: 100 Percent Will Get It If I'm The President.

No Matter What Your Politics Is, We Ought To Be Thanking People For Volunteering.

So On Behalf Of A Well-oiled Unit Of People Who Came Together To Serve Something Greater Than Themselves, Congratulations.

Congratulations

But I Have No Desire For Fame And Power Anymore. I Crawled Out Of The Swamp And I'm Not Crawling Back In.

When You See A Threat, You Just Can't Hope For The Best In This Day And Age, Where Terrorists Are Capable Of Inflicting Damage On The Homeland.

Hoping For The Best

We Know That Dictators Are Quick To Choose Aggression, While Free Nations Strive To Resolve Differences In Peace.

Our Enemies Are A Radical Network Of Terrorists - And Every Government That Supports Them.

I Think All Presidents Should Take The Long View Of History.

I Remember, Right After Hezbollah Launched Its Rocket Attacks On Israel, I Said: This Is A Clarifying Moment; This Is A Chance For The World To See The Threats Of The 21st Century, The Challenge We Face.

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.

I Want To Thank The President And The Ceo Of Constellation Energy, Mayo Shattuck. That's A Pretty Cool First Name, Isn't It, Mayo. Pass The Mayo.

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