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I Want To Remind You All That In Order To Fight And Win The War, It Requires An Expenditure Of Money That Is Commiserate With Keeping A Promise To Our Troops To Make Sure That They're Well Paid, Well Trained, Well Equipped.

-George W. Bush

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I Want To Remind

George W. Bush

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I Want To Remind You All That In Order To Fight And Win The War, It Requires An Expenditure Of Money That Is Commiserate With Keeping A Promise To Our Troops To Make Sure That They're Well Paid, Well Trained, Well Equipped.

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We Don't Talk About Sources And Methods. Don't Talk About Ongoing Intelligence Operations. I Know There's Speculation. But It's Important For The American People To Understand That I Will Use My Powers To Protect Us, And I Will Do So Under The Law, And That's Important For Our Citizens To Understand.

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As Far As The Legal Hassling And Wrangling And Posturing In Florida, I Would Suggest You Talk To Our Team In Florida Led By Jim Baker.

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It Is Time To Set Aside The Old Partisan Bickering And Finger-pointing And Name-calling That Comes From Freeing Parents To Make Different Choices For Their Children.

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I Believe We're Making Really Good Progress In Iraq.

The Best Way To Defeat An Ideology Is With A Better Ideology. And I Believe Democracy Is A Better Ideology.

Great Tragedy Has Come To Us, And We Are Meeting It With The Best That Is In Our Country, With Courage And Concern For Others Because This Is America. This Is Who We Are.

Concern For Others

We Cannot Let Terrorists Hold This Nation Hostile Or Hold Our Allies Hostile.

[people] Don't Judge You On What Would Have Happened In The Absence Of A Decision.

My Advice To Seniors - And I Consider Myself One - Is To First And Foremost Take Care Of Your Body. Secondly, Find Something Where You Could Say, "i'm Helping Somebody Else." And It May Be Just Helping Raise A Grandkid. Or Teaching A Child To Read - One Child To Read.

American Nation Will Not Wait To Be Attacked Again. We Will Defend Our Freedom And We Will Take The Fight To The Enemy.

I Grieve For Every Death.'it Breaks My Heart To Think About A Family Weeping Over The Loss Of A Loved One. I Understand The Anguish That Some Feel About The Death That Takes Place.

For Too Long Our Culture Has Said, "if It Feels Good, Do It." Now America Is Embracing A New Ethic And A New Creed: "let's Roll".

Fool Me Once, Shame On - Shame On You. Fool Me - You Can't Get Fooled Again.

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Unconditional Love

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No Matter How Advanced Our Economy Might Be, No Matter How Sophisticated Our Equipment Becomes, For The Foreseeable Future We Will Still Depend On Fossil Fuels.

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It Would Send An Unbelievably Terrible Signal To Reformers Across The Region. It Would Say We've Abandoned Our Desire To Change The Conditions That Create Terror. It Would Give The Terrorists A Safe Haven From Which To Launch Attacks. It Would Embolden Iran. It Would Embolden Extremists. That's Why We're Not Leaving Iraq.

I Can't Wait To Join You In The Joy Of Welcoming Neighbors Back Into Neighborhoods, And Small Businesses Up And Running, And Cutting Those Ribbons That Somebody Is Creating New Jobs.

So Long As I'm The President, My Measure Of Success Is Victory -- And Success.

The Administration Ill Bring Is A Group Of Men And Women Who Are Focused On Whats Best For America, Honest Men And Women, Decent Men And Women, Women Who Will See Service To Our Country As A Great Privilege And Who Will Not Stain The House.

Senator Kerry Has Been In Washington Long Enough To Take Both Sides On Just About Every Issue.

If There Is A Leak Out Of My Administration, I Want To Know Who It Is. If The Person Has Violated Law, The Person Will Be Taken Care Of.

I Can Hear You, The Rest Of The World Can Hear You And The People Who Knocked These Buildings Down Will Hear All Of Us Soon.

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.

Baptists Have Long Upheld The Ideal Of A Free Church In A Free State. And From The Beginning, They Believed That Forcing A Person To Worship Against His Will Violated The Principles Of Both Christianity And Civility.

States Like These [iran, Iraq, North Korae], And Their Terrorist Allies, Constitute An Axis Of Evil, Arming To Threaten The Peace Of The World. By Seeking Weapons Of Mass Destruction, These Regimes Pose A Grave And Growing Danger. They Could Provide These Arms To Terrorists, Giving Them The Means To Match Their Hatred. They Could Attack Our Allies Or Attempt To Blackmail The United States. In Any Of These Cases, The Price Of Indifference Would Be Catastrophic.

Mass Destruction

Saddam Hussein Was A Unique Threat. And The World Is Better Off Without Him In Power.

My Job Is To Make Sure That, As President, People Understand That In This Country You Can Worship Any Way You Choose. And I'll Take That A Step Further. You Can Be A Patriot If You Don't Believe In The Almighty. You Can Honor Your Country And Be As Patriotic As Your Neighbor.

This Is A Decent And Honorable Country - And Resilient, Too. We've Been Through A Lot Together. We've Met Challenges And Faced Dangers, And We Know That More Lie Ahead. Yet We Can Go Forward With Confidence - Because The State Of Our Union Is Strong, Our Cause In The World Is Right, And Tonight That Cause Goes On. God Bless.

It Appears To Be A Re-run Of A Bad Movie. [iraqi President Saddam Hussein] Is Delaying. He's Deceiving. He's Asking For Time. He's Playing Hide-and-seek With Inspectors. One Thing Is For Certain - He's Not Disarming.

By Heritage And By Choice, The United States Of America Will Make That Stand.

Will You Be A Spectator Or A Citizen? To Make A Difference In This World, You Must Be Involved.

Making A Difference

You're Free. And Freedom Is Beautiful. And, You Know, It'll Take Time To Restore Chaos And Order - Order Out Of Chaos. But We Will.

Home Is Important. Its Important To Have A Home.

Americans Spend 6 Billion Hours A Year Filling Out Their Tax Reforms.

Any Government That Supports, Protects Or Harbours Terrorists Is Complicit In The Murder Of The Innocent And Equally Guilty Of Terrorist Crimes.

I Knew It Might Put Him In An Awkward Position That We Had A Discussion Before Finality Has Finally Happened In This Presidential Race.

We Are A Caring Nation, And Our Values Should Also Guide Us On How We Harness The Gifts Of Science. New Medical Breakthroughs Bring The Hope Of Cures For Terrible Diseases And Treatments That Can Improve The Lives Of Millions. Our Challenge Is To Make Sure That Science Serves The Cause Of Humanity Instead Of The Other Way Around.

Redefining The Role Of The United States From Enablers To Keep The Peace To Enablers To Keep The Peace From Peacekeepers Is Going To Be An Assignment.

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

I Think That If You Don't Think We're In A War That You Can't Win The War.

Americans Are A Free People, Who Know That Freedom Is The Right Of Every Person And The Future Of Every Nation. The Liberty We Prize Is Not America's Gift To The World; It Is God's Gift To Humanity.

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

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