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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.

-George W. Bush

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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.

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I Served. And Now It's Time For The New Man To Serve. I Have Zero Desire To Be In The Limelight.

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I Kind Of Like To Look At The Ranch On Google, Reminds Me Of Where I Want To Be Sometimes.

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First, Let Me Make It Very Clear, Poor People Aren't Necessarily Killers. Just Because You Happen To Be Not Rich Doesn't Mean You're Willing To Kill.

I Think It Is A Worthy Goal In America To Have Every Child Protected By Law And Welcomed In Life. I Also Think We Ought To Continue To Have Good Adoption Law As An Alternative To Abortion.

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We`ll Fight Terrorists In Iraq, We'll Fight Them Across The World, And We Will Stay In The Fight Until The Fight Is Won.

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We Don't Want Washington Democrats Running The House Of Representatives.

I Mean, There Needs To Be A Wholesale Effort Against Racial Profiling, Which Is Illiterate Children.

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Each Of Us Will Figure Out Our Own Way.

See, One Of The Interesting Things In The Oval Office - I Love To Bring People Into The Oval Office - Right Around The Corner From Here - And Say, This Is Where I Office, But I Want You To Know The Office Is Always Bigger Than The Person.

People Expect Those In Authority To Take On Big Problems And To Solve Them. We Had An Opportunity To Reform Social Security In A Way That Would Have Protected People's Benefits And Created A Solvent System. Younger Workers Would Be Confident That The Money They Were Putting Into The System Would Be Available To Them When They Retired. It Was A Missed Opportunity. I Regret That.

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They Have Miscalculated Me As A Leader.

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Mass Destruction

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The Fight Against Terrorism Is Not Limited To America. Europe, Russia, Indonesia, Australia, The Phillipines, All Have Had Their Share Of It, And All The Leaders Have Been Very Cooperative In Our Efforts. But It Is For America To Lead, And We Will.

There's Also Consumer Debt, The Credit Card Debt That Burdens Many Of The Working Families In America. Yes, We Talk About National Debt, And We're Paying A Lot Down. But You're Fixing To Hear Me Tell You Part Of The Remedy For People Who Have Got A Lot Of Credit Card Debt Is To Make Sure People Get Some Of Their Own Money Back.

You Can't Have A Democracy With An Armed Political Party Willing To Bomb Its Neighbor Without The Consent Of Its Government Or, You Know, Just Deciding, "well, Let's Create Enough Chaos And Discord By Lobbing Rockets. And So The Reality Is In Order For Lebanon To Succeed And We Want Lebanon's Democracy To Succeed The Process Is Going To The Lebanese Government's Eventually Going To Have To Deal With Hezbollah.

We Can't Impose Freedom, But We Can Eliminate Roadblocks To Freedom, And To Allow Free Societies To Develop.

I Do Not Like Abortions. I Will Do Everything In My Power To Restrict Abortion.

On This National Day Of Prayer And Remembrance, We Ask Almighty God To Watch Over Our Nation, And Grant Us Patience And Resolve In All That Is To Come. We Pray That He Will Comfort And Console Those Who Now Walk In Sorrow. We Thank Him For Each Life We Now Must Mourn, And The Promise Of A Life To Come.

I Have A Different Vision Of Leadership. A Leadership Is Someone Who Brings People Together.

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

If We're An Arrogant Nation, They'll Resent Us.

If You Find A Neighbor In Need, You're Responsible For Serving That Neighbor In Need, You're Responsible For Loving A Neighbor Just Like You'd Like To Love Yourself.

We Are Not At War With The Afghani People, And We Are Not At War With Islam, Which Most Americans Respect As A Religion Of Peace.

Politics Comes And Goes, But Your Principles Don't. And Everybody Wants To Be Loved -- Not Everybody. ... You Never Heard Anybody Say, 'i Want To Be Despised, I'm Running For Office.'

It Really Gets Me When The Critics Say I Haven't Done Enough For The Economy. I Mean, Look What I've Done For The Book Publishing Industry. You've Heard Some Of The Titles. 'big Lies,' 'the Lies Of George W. Bush,' 'the Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them.' I'd Like To Tell You I've Read Each Of These Books, But That'd Be A Lie.

Our Law Enforcement Must Have Every Tool Necessary To Find And Disrupt Terrorists At Home And Abroad. That's The Task Of The 21st Century.

To Those Of You Who Received Honours, Awards And Distinctions, I Say, Well Done. And To The C Students, I Say, You Too Can Be President Of The United States.

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