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I Understand Why People Are Discouraged About Iraq. I Can Understand That. We Live In A, You Know, World In Which People Hope Things Happen Quickly. And This Is A Situation Where Things Don't Happen Quickly Because There's, You Know, A Very Tough Group Of People Using Tactics - Mainly The Killing Of Innocent People - To Achieve Their Objective, And They're Skillful About How They Do This. And They Also Know The Impact Of What It Means On The Consciousness Of Those Of Us Who Live In The Free World. They Know That.

-George W. Bush

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I Understand Why People

George W. Bush

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I Understand Why People Are Discouraged About Iraq. I Can Understand That. We Live In A, You Know, World In Which People Hope Things Happen Quickly. And This Is A Situation Where Things Don't Happen Quickly Because There's, You Know, A Very Tough Group Of People Using Tactics - Mainly The Killing Of Innocent People - To Achieve Their Objective, And They're Skillful About How They Do This. And They Also Know The Impact Of What It Means On The Consciousness Of Those Of Us Who Live In The Free World. They Know That.

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Osama Bin Laden

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Executive Branch

My Message Is, Is That Although Some Of You Didn't Agree With The Actions We Took, Now Let's Work Together To Rebuild Iraq, Rebuild Afghanistan, Fight Aids And Hunger, Deal With Slavery, Like Sex Slavery, And Deal With Proliferation. Let's Work Together On Big Issues.

I Don't Read Books, But I Have Friends Who Do.

I Believe The Role Of Government Is To Stand Side By Side With Our Citizens To Help Them Realize Their Dreams, Not Tell Citizens How To Live Their Lives.

Freedom Itself Was Attacked This Morning By A Faceless Coward, And Freedom Will Be Defended.

The Senator Has Got To Understand If He's Going To Have - He Can't Have It Both Ways. He Can't Take The High Horse And Then Claim The Low Road.

We Do Not Prescribe Any Prayer; We Welcome All Prayer.

I Believe The World Would Have Been A Lot Worse Off If Saddam [hussein] Were In Power Today.

I Do Know That It’s Important For Us To Support The Iraqi People, Who Have Shown Incredible Courage In Their Desire To Live In A Free Society. And If We Ever Give Up The Desire To Help People Who Live In Freedom, We Will Have Lost Our Soul As A Nation, As Far As I’m Concerned.

America Must Not Ignore The Threat Gathering Against Us. Facing Clear Evidence Of Peril, We Cannot Wait For The Final Proof, The Smoking Gun That Could Come In The Form Of A Mushroom Cloud.

Since September 11th, Federal Terrorism Investigations Have Resulted In Charges Against More Than 400 Suspects, And More Than Half Those Charged Have Been Convicted. Federal, State, And Local Law Enforcement Have Used The Patriot Act To Break Up Terror Cells In New York And Oregon And Virginia And In Florida. We've Prosecuted Terrorist Operatives And Supporters. These Efforts Have Not Always Made The Headlines But They've Made Communities Safer. The Patriot Act Has Accomplished Exactly What It Was Designed To Do.

What You Do Is As Important As Anything Government Does. I Ask You To Seek A Common Good Beyond Your Comfort; To Defend Needed Reforms Against Easy Attacks; To Serve Your Nation, Beginning With Your Neighbor. I Ask You To Be Citizens: Citizens, Not Spectators; Citizens, Not Subjects; Responsible Citizens, Building Communities Of Service And A Nation Of Character.

Can't Living With The Bill Means It Won't Become Law.

What Texans Can Dream, Texans Can Do.

Sometimes In This World You Make Unpopular Decisions Because You Think They're Right.

For Every Fatal Shooting, There Are About 3 Non-fatal Shootings. Folks, This Is Unacceptable In America.

I Mean, These Good Folks Are Revolutionizing How Businesses Conduct Their Business. And, Like Them, I Am Very Optimistic About Our Position In The World And About Its Influence On The United States. We're Concerned About The Short-term Economic News, But Long-term I'm Optimistic. And So, I Hope Investors, You Know - Secondly, I Hope Investors Hold Investments For Periods Of Time - That I've Always Found The Best Investments Are Those That You Salt Away Based On Economics.

I'm For A Stronger Death Penalty.

In The Future History Will Be Made Only By Us.

I Regret That We Weren't Able To Reform Social Security. The Fact That We Weren't Able To When We Had Majorities In The House And The Senate I Think Reflected Poorly On Our Political Party.

So Long As I'm The President, We Will. I Clearly See The Challenge. I See The Challenge Of What These Threats Pose To Our Homeland, And I See The Challenge Of What These Threats Pose To The World.

I Fully Understand It's Important To Maintain The Separation Of Church And State. We Don't Want The State To Become The Church, Nor Do We Want The Church To Become The State.

I Read The Newspaper.

If You Are Young Child And You've Lost Mother And Dad To Aids And Rich Nations Sit On The Sidelines Not Caring, You Will Become A Frustrated Person And A Hopeless Person.

You Know, I Guess I'm Like Any Other Political Figure: Everybody Wants To Be Loved.

We've Got A Lot Of Relations With Countries In Our Neighborhood.

In Africa, You Only Have An Independent Media In Only Eight African Countries, So There Is Very Little Transparency. The Best Gift That Rich Countries Can Give Africa Is Radio Free Africa And Radio Free Africa Will Do For Africa What Radio Free Europe Did For Europe.

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