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I Think If We Have A Policy Of Zero Violence, It Won't Be Met, But The Policy Of Getting The Iraqis In The Fight And Marginalizing Those Who Are Trying To Stir Up Trouble Will Be Effective.

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I Think If We Have A Policy Of Zero Violence, It Won't Be Met, But The Policy Of Getting The Iraqis In The Fight And Marginalizing Those Who Are Trying To Stir Up Trouble Will Be Effective.

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[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.

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We Can't Allow The World's Worst Leaders To Blackmail, Threaten, Hold Freedom-loving Nations Hostage With The World's Worst Weapons.

The Only Way We Can Win Is If We Leave Before The Job Is...done.

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

Scripture Says: "blessed Are Those Who Mourn For They Shall Be Comforted." I Call On Every American Family And The Family Of America To Observe A National Day Of Prayer And Remembrance, Honoring The Memory Of The Thousands Of Victims Of These Brutal Attacks And Comforting Those Who Lost Loved Ones. We Will Persevere Through This National Tragedy And Personal Loss. In Time, We Will Find Healing And Recovery; And, In The Face Of All This Evil, We Remain Strong And United, "one Nation Under God."

I'm Asking Congress To Pass My Zero Down Payment Initiative. We Should Remove The 3 Percent Down Payment Rule For First Time Home Buyers With Fha-insured Mortgages.

There's Only One Person Who Hugs The Mothers And The Widows, The Wives And The Kids Upon The Death Of Their Loved One. Others Hug But Having Committed The Troops, I've Got An Additional Responsibility To Hug And That's Me And I Know What It's Like.

America Has Never Been United By Blood Or Birth Or Soil. We Are Bound By Ideals That Move Us Beyond Our Backgrounds, Lift Us Above Our Interests And Teach Us What It Means To Be Citizens.

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.

If You Say, "are You Going To Change Your Strategic Objective?", It Means You're Leaving Before The Mission Is Complete, And We're Not Going To Leave Before The Mission In Iraq Is Complete.

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