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I Suspect That Had My Dad Not Been President, He'd Be Asking The Same Questions: How'd Your Meeting Go With So-and-so? . How Did You Feel When You Stood Up In Front Of The People For The State Of The Union Address-state Of The Budget Address, Whatever You Call It.

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I Suspect That Had My Dad Not Been President, He'd Be Asking The Same Questions: How'd Your Meeting Go With So-and-so? . How Did You Feel When You Stood Up In Front Of The People For The State Of The Union Address-state Of The Budget Address, Whatever You Call It.

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The Advance Of Liberty Is The Path To Both A Safer And Better World.

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Congratulations

Murdering The Innocent To Advance An Ideology Is Wrong Every Time Everywhere

I Believe That We're In An Ideological Struggle; I Believe The Only Way To Marginalize Those Who Murder The Innocent, To Achieve Our Ideological Objectives, Is To Spread Democracy And Freedom.

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Failure Is Not An Option

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I Was Not Elected To Serve One Party.

I'm Going To Be Involved With Freedom; I'm Going To Be Involved In The Marketplace; I'm Going To Be Involved In The Accountability In Schools.

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People Make Suggestions On What To Say All The Time... Trust Me.

Many People Are Coming To This Country For Economic Reasons. They're Coming Here To Work. If You Can Make 50 Cents In The Heart Of Mexico, For Example, Or Make $5 Here In America, $5.15, You're Going To Come Here If You're Worth Your Salt, If You Want To Put Food On The Table For Your Families. And That's What's Happening.

If I Answer Questions Every Time You Ask One, Expectations Would Be High. And As You Know, I Like To Keep Expectations Low.

I Equate Freedom And Peace. And I Believe America, Given Its Position In The World, Must Use Our Power To Promote Freedom.

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.

The Fundamental Question Is, 'will I Be A Successful President When It Comes To Foreign Policy?' I Will Be, But Until I'm The President, It's Going To Be Hard For Me To Verify That I Think I'll Be More Effective.

That Road To V-e Day Was Hard And Long, And Traveled By Weary And Valiant Men. And History Will Always Record Where That Road Began. It Began Here, With The First Footprints On The Beaches Of Normandy.

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

I Really Appreciate Leaders From Around The Globe Who Have Come To Share In Prayer With Us Today. It Reminds Me That The Almighty God Is A God To Everybody, Every Person.

If You Believe That The Job Of The Federal Government Is To Secure This Country, It's Really Important For You To Understand That Success In Iraq Is Part Of Securing The Country.

America Needs A Military Where Our Breast And Brightest Are Proud To Serve.

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

We Got Plenty Of Money In Washington. What We Need Is More Priority.

That's Really The Fundamental Question We Face Here In The Beginning Of This 21st Century Is Whether Or Not We Believe As A Nation And Others Believe It Is Possible To Defeat This Ideology.

Obviously I Pray Every Day There's Less Casualty.

Ultimately, Success Is Going To Be Up To The Reformers, Just Like In Iraq. It's Going To Require Iraqis, The Will Of Iraqis To Succeed. I Understand That. And That's Why Our Strategy Is To Give Them The Tools Necessary To Defend Themselves And Help Them Defend Themselves; In This Case Right Now Mainly In Baghdad, But As Well Around The Country.

I Frankly Felt Like The Reception We Received On The Way In From The Airport Was Very Warm And Hospitable. And I Want To Thank The Canadian People Who Came Out To Wave -- With All Five Fingers -- For Their Hospitality.

America Has Never Been An Empire. We May Be The Only Great Power In History That Had The Chance, And Refused - Preferring Greatness To Power And Justice To Glory.

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

It's Kind Of The Washington, D.c., Chattering Class. They Kind Of Talk Amongst Themselves.

I Am Here To Make An Announcement That This Thursday, Ticket Counters And Airplanes Will Fly Out Of Ronald Reagan Airport.

I View My Time In Politics As A Chapter, Not My Life.

I Wish They Weren't Called The 'bush Tax Cuts.' If They're Called Some Other Body's Tax Cuts, They're Probably Less Likely To Be Raised.

We Honor The Heritage Of All Who Come Here, No Matter Where They Come From, Because We Trust In Our Country's Genius For Making Us All Americans - One Nation Under God.

I Believe That Democracy Will Prevail, So Long As The United States Stays With These Young Democracies To Help Them.

No President Ever Puts American Lives At Risk Without A Terrible Sense Of Responsibility. And No American Ever Hears Or Reads Of A Soldier’s Death Without Saying A Silent Prayer For The Dead Hero Or Thinking Of The Grief Of The Family And Friends. Every Young Man Or Woman Who Dies Represents A Life With Its Own Dreams And Plans, Extinguished So Suddenly. But All Said And Done, It Is Our Responsibility To See That (1) We Never Put Our Troops In Situations Where They Are Subject To Unnecessary Risk, And (2) We Give Them All Our Support At All Times.

I Think Anybody Who Doesn't Think I'm Smart Enough To Handle The Job Is Underestimating.

All I Can Tell You Is That I Know The Enemy, Allies, And Troops Hear What I Say.

Some Who Call Themselves Realists Question Whether The Spread Of Democracy In The Middle East Should Be Any Concern Of Ours. But The Realists In This Case Have Lost Contact With A Fundamental Reality: America Has Always Been Less Secure When Freedom Is In Retreat; America Is Always More Secure When Freedom Is On The March.

The Administration Took Care Of A Source Of Instability In Iraq. Envision A World In Which Saddam Hussein Was Rushing For A Nuclear Weapon To Compete Against Iran. My Decision To Remove Saddam Hussein Was The Correct Decision In My Judgment. We Didn't Find The Weapons We Thought We Would Find Or The Weapons Everybody Thought He Had. But He Was A Significant Source Of Instability.

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.

governments Accountable To The Voters Focus On Building Roads And Schoolsnot Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

Mass Destruction

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

I Don't Know Where [osama Bin Laden] Is. You Know, I Just Don't Spend That Much Time On Him, To Be Honest With You. I'm More Worried About Making Sure That Our Soldiers Are Well Supplied, That The Strategy Is Clear, That The Coalition Is Strong.

The Bob Jones Policy On Interracial Dating, I Mean I Spoke Out On Interracial Dating. I Spoke Against That. I Spoke Out Against Interracial Dating. I Support The Policy Of Interracial Dating.

Anybody Who Is In A Position To Serve This Country Ought To Understand The Consequences Of Words.

Now The Taliban Will Pay A Price.

The United States Of America Will Not Permit The World's Most Dangerous Regimes To Threaten Us With The World's Most Destructive Weapons.

Well, It's An Unimaginable Honor To Be The President During The Fourth Of July Of This Country. It Means What These Words Say, For Starters. The Great Inalienable Rights Of Our Country. We're Blessed With Such Values In America. And I - It's - I'm A Proud Man To Be The Nation Based Upon Such Wonderful Values.

It's Your Money. You Paid For It.

We Will Not Permit The Triumph Of Violence In The Affairs Of Men; Free People Will Set The Course Of History.

Wisdom And Strength, And My Family, Is What I'd Like For You To Pray For.

I'd Like To Be A President [known] As Somebody Who Liberated 50 Million People And Helped Achieve Peace.

For Most Of The World, There's No Greater Symbol Of America Than The Statue Of Liberty. It Has Been An Inspiration To Generations Of Immigrants. One Of These Immigrants Was A Poet-writer Named Ameen Rihani. Gazing At Her Lamp Held High, He Wondered Whether Her Sister Might Be Erected In The Lands Of His Arab Forefathers. Here Is How He Put It: "when Will You Turn Your Face Toward The East, Oh Liberty?"

If Most Of The Breaks Go To Wealthy People It's Because Most Of The People Who Pay Taxes Are Wealthy.

i Dont Have The Foggiest Idea About What I Think About International, Foreign Policy.

We Are A People United By Our Love For Freedom, Even When We Differ In Our Personal Beliefs. In America, We Are Free To Profess Any Faith We Choose, Or No Faith At All.

There Has Been Some Conditionalities In The Sense That This Debt Relief Is Supposed To Release Resources To Be Devoted To Education, Healthcare And Infrastructure, For Example. In The Past African Government Made Such Promises But They Never Carried Them Out.

The United States Of America Stands For: The Ability For People To Worship Freely, The Ability For People To Vote And To Express Their Opinion Freely Is Something We Hold Dear.

Part Of The Faith Walk Is To Understand Your Weaknesses And Is To Constantly Try To Embetter Yourself And Get Closer To The Lord.

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

The Press In America Has Never Been Stronger And Never Been Freer And Never Been More Vibrant, Sometimes To My Chagrin, And A Lot Of Times To My Delight.

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.

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.

The Worst Of Nature Brings Out The Best In Our Fellow Human Beings.

You Cannot Lead America To A Positive Tomorrow With Revenge On One's Mind. Revenge Is So Incredibly Negative.

The Illiteracy Level Of Our Children Are Appalling.

German People Are Essentially Pacifists. Many Still Remember The Experience Of World War Ii. And They May Not Have Seen Saddam Hussein As Evil A Person As A Lot Of Other People Have.

You Know, If You Find A Person That You've Never Seen Before Getting In A Crop-duster That Doesn't Belong To You, Report It.

Grief And Tragedy And Hatred Are Only For A Time. Goodness, Remembrance And Love Have No End, And The Lord Of Life Holds All Who Die And All Who Mourn.

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