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No President Ever Puts American Lives At Risk Without A Terrible Sense Of Responsibility. And No American Ever Hears Or Reads Of A Soldier’s Death Without Saying A Silent Prayer For The Dead Hero Or Thinking Of The Grief Of The Family And Friends. Every Young Man Or Woman Who Dies Represents A Life With Its Own Dreams And Plans, Extinguished So Suddenly. But All Said And Done, It Is Our Responsibility To See That (1) We Never Put Our Troops In Situations Where They Are Subject To Unnecessary Risk, And (2) We Give Them All Our Support At All Times.

-George W. Bush

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No President Ever Puts American Lives At Risk Without A Terrible Sense Of Responsibility. And No American Ever Hears Or Reads Of A Soldier’s Death Without Saying A Silent Prayer For The Dead Hero Or Thinking Of The Grief Of The Family And Friends. Every Young Man Or Woman Who Dies Represents A Life With Its Own Dreams And Plans, Extinguished So Suddenly. But All Said And Done, It Is Our Responsibility To See That (1) We Never Put Our Troops In Situations Where They Are Subject To Unnecessary Risk, And (2) We Give Them All Our Support At All Times.

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The People Who Did This Act On America, And Who May Be Planning Further Acts, Are Evil People. They Don't Represent An Ideology, They Don't Represent A Legitimate Political Group Of People. They're Flat Evil. That's All They Can Think About, Is Evil. And As A Nation Of Good Folks, We're Going To Hunt Them Down, And We're Going To Find Them, And We Will Bring Them To Justice.

Being A Father And Trying To Love My Daughters With Unconditional Love - Those Were All Good Decisions.

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I Had Watched Dad Climb Into The Biggest Arena And Succeed. I Wanted To Find Out If I Had What It Took To Join Him.

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.

America Is Addicted To Oil...we Must Also Change How We Power Our Automobiles. We Will Increase Our Research In Better Batteries For Hybrid And Electric Cars And In Pollution-free Cars That Run On Hydrogen. We Will Also Fund Additional Research In Cutting-edge Methods Of Producing Ethanol, Not Just From Corn But From Wood Chips And Stalks Or Switch Grass.

I'd Like To See Stability And A Unified Iraq. A Young Democracy Will Provide The Stability We Look For. I Will Tell You That If We Just Isolate Ourselves From The Middle East And Hope For The Best, We Will Not Address The Conditions That Had Led Young Suiciders To Get On Airplanes To Come And Attack Amerika In The First Place.

It's Amazing I Won. I Was Running Against Peace, Prosperity, And Incumbency.

I Really Think It's Important For Presidents To Exit The Stage Gracefully.

The Resolution Approved Today Presents The Iraqi Regime With A Test - A Final Test.

I Think We Ought To Raise The Age At Which Juveniles Can Have A Gun.

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

First Of All, In Principle, I'm Against Physician-assisted Suicide, And Secondly, I Believe It Is The Prerogative Of The Federal Government To Control Drug Rules. And The Idea Of Using A Controlled Substance To End Somebody's Life Is Something I Don't Agree With. I Can See The Idea Of Using Controlled Substances To Ease Somebody's Pain. That Makes Sense.

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