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If You Take All The Food Aid, America Is By Far The Most Generous Country. If You Take The Direct Aid, We're Very Generous. But When You Add On Our Private Contributions - See, Our Tax System Encourages Private Citizens To Donate To Organisations That, For Example, Help The Folks In Africa. And When You Take The Combined Effort Of Us Taxpayers' Money Plus Us Citizens' Donations, We're Very Generous. And We'll Do More.

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If You Take All The Food Aid, America Is By Far The Most Generous Country. If You Take The Direct Aid, We're Very Generous. But When You Add On Our Private Contributions - See, Our Tax System Encourages Private Citizens To Donate To Organisations That, For Example, Help The Folks In Africa. And When You Take The Combined Effort Of Us Taxpayers' Money Plus Us Citizens' Donations, We're Very Generous. And We'll Do More.

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I... You Know, I... Look, After 9/11, I Vowed To Protect This Country.

It's Important To Take Risks.

Politics Comes And Goes, But Your Principles Don't. And Everybody Wants To Be Loved -- Not Everybody. ... You Never Heard Anybody Say, 'i Want To Be Despised, I'm Running For Office.'

The Principle I Believe In Is The Principle Of Protecting Our Nation. I Believe That The United States Has The Right To Attack Any Country It Views As A Threat At A Time And Place Of Its Choosing.

America Treasures The Relationship We Have With Our Many Muslim Friends, And We Respect The Vibrant Faith Of Islam Which Inspires Countless Individuals To Lead Lives Of Honesty, Integrity, And Morality. This Year, May Eid Also Be A Time In Which We Recognize The Values Of Progress, Pluralism, And Acceptance That Bind Us Together As A Nation And A Global Community. By Working Together To Advance Mutual Understanding, We Point The Way To A Brighter Future For All.

Drug Therapies Are Replacing A Lot Of Medicine As We Used To Know It.

In Order For The U.n. To Be Effective, There Must Be Consequences If People Thumb Their Nose At The United Nations Security Council. And We Will Work With People On The Security Council To Achieve That Objective.

There's A Lot That I Want To Accomplish.

The Point Is, This Is A Way To Help Inoculate Me About What Has Come And Is Coming.

And Some Needs And Hurts Are So Deep They Will Only Respond To A Mentor's Touch Or A Pastor's Prayer. Church And Charity, Synagogue And Mosque, Lend Our Communities Their Humanity, And They Will Have An Honored Place In Our Plans And Laws.

In My Sentences I Go Where No Man Has Gone Before.

Whether Or Not It Needed To Happen, I'm Still Convinced It Needed To Happen.

I Am A War President.

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

You Know, I'm The President During This Period Of Time, But I Think When The History Of This Period Is Written, People Will Realize A Lot Of The Decisions That Were Made On Wall Street Took Place Over A Decade Or So, Before I Arrived In President, During I Arrived In President.

I Believe A Marriage Is Between A Man And A Woman.

Tonight, I Ask For Your Prayers For All Those Who Grieve, For The Children Whose Worlds Have Been Shattered, For All Whose Sense Of Safety And Security Has Been Threatened. And I Pray They Will Be Comforted By A Power Greater Than Any Of Us, Spoken Through The Ages In Psalm 23: "even Though I Walk Through The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death, I Fear No Evil, For You Are With Me."

Gog And Magog Are At Work In The Middle East... The Biblical Prophecies Are Being Fulfilled... This Confrontation Is Willed By God, Who Wants To Use This Conflict To Erase His People's Enemies Before A New Age Begins.

For Decades, The Public School System Failed Too Many Children, So We Passed The No Child Left Behind Act And Demanded Schools Show Results In Return For Money.

The Only Way To Protect Our People, The Only Way To Secure The Peace, The Only Way To Control Our Destiny Is By Our Leadership -- So The United States Of America Will Continue To Lead

Our Law Enforcement Must Have Every Tool Necessary To Find And Disrupt Terrorists At Home And Abroad. That's The Task Of The 21st Century.

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