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I Want To Thank You For Coming To The White House To Give Me An Opportunity To Urge You To Work With These Five Senators And Three Congressmen, To Work Hard To Get This Trade Promotion Authority Moving. The Power That Be, Well Most Of The Power That Be, Sits Right Here.

-George W. Bush

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I Want To Thank You For Coming To The White House To Give Me An Opportunity To Urge You To Work With These Five Senators And Three Congressmen, To Work Hard To Get This Trade Promotion Authority Moving. The Power That Be, Well Most Of The Power That Be, Sits Right Here.

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I Know That The Human Being And The Fish Can Coexist Peacefully.

Every Nation In Every Region Now Has A Decision To Make. Either You Are With Us, Or You Are With The Terrorists.

Look, This Is A Man, He's Got Great Numbers. He Talks About Numbers. I'm Beginning To Think Not Only Did He Invent The Internet, But He Invented The Calculator. It's Fuzzy Math. It's A Scaring - Trying To Scare People In The Voting Booth. Under My Tax Plan, That He Continues To Criticize, I Set A Third - The Federal Government Should Take No More Than A Third Of Anybody's Check.

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

I Believe We Owe It To Our Children And Grandchildren To Stay Engaged And To Help Spread Liberty And To Help Reformers.

Just Remember It's The Birds That's Supposed To Suffer, Not The Hunter.

There's This Kind Of Almost - Kind Of A Weird Kind Of Elitism That Says Well Maybe - Maybe Certain People In Certain Parts Of The World Shouldn't Be Free; Maybe It's Best Just To Let Them Sit In These Tyrannical Societies. And Our Foreign Policy Rejects That Concept. And We Don't Accept It. And So We're Working.

It Is White. - When Asked What The White House Was Like By A Student In East London

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