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On This National Day Of Prayer And Remembrance, We Ask Almighty God To Watch Over Our Nation, And Grant Us Patience And Resolve In All That Is To Come. We Pray That He Will Comfort And Console Those Who Now Walk In Sorrow. We Thank Him For Each Life We Now Must Mourn, And The Promise Of A Life To Come.

-George W. Bush

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George W. Bush

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On This National Day Of Prayer And Remembrance, We Ask Almighty God To Watch Over Our Nation, And Grant Us Patience And Resolve In All That Is To Come. We Pray That He Will Comfort And Console Those Who Now Walk In Sorrow. We Thank Him For Each Life We Now Must Mourn, And The Promise Of A Life To Come.

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He Has Certainly Earned A Reputation As A Fantastic Mayor, Because The Results Speak For Themselves. I Mean, New York's A Safer Place For Him To Be.

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The Bob Jones Policy On Interracial Dating, I Mean I Spoke Out On Interracial Dating. I Spoke Against That. I Spoke Out Against Interracial Dating. I Support The Policy Of Interracial Dating.

How Great The Lie Right To The Top: We Don't Torture People In America And People Who Say We Do Simply Know Nothing About Our Country.

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People Have Access To Health Care In America. After All, You Just Go To An Emergency Room.

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The Iraqi Regime . . . Possesses And Produces Chemical And Biological Weapons. It Is Seeking Nuclear Weapons. We Know That The Regime Has Produced Thousands Of Tons Of Chemical Agents, Including Mustard Gas, Sarin Nerve Gas, Vx Nerve Gas.

Mass Destruction

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No Insignificant Person Was Ever Born.

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Unconditional Love

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The Only Way We Can Win Is If We Leave Before The Job Is...done.

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I Make Decisions Based On What I Think Is Best For The Country.

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The United States And Rich Countries Cannot Change Africa From Within. It Has To Impose Reform On Africa; It Has To Come From Within.

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There Was No Evidence That Saddam Hussein Was Involved With The Attack Of 9/11, I've Never Said That And Never Made That Case Prior To Going Into Iraq.

I'm Also Combining My Love Of Outdoors With My Desire To Help Others.

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Those Who Heralded The Decision Not To Give Law Enforcement The Tools Necessary To Protect The American People Just Simply Don't See The World The Way We Do.

We Will Be Changing The Regime Of Iraq For The Good Of The Iraqi People.

The German Asparagus Are Fabulous.

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I Think By Not Participating In The Current Political Debate, Hopefully I'm Sending A Signal That Will Help Set A Tone.

People Sometimes Have To Correct My English. I Knew I Had A Problem When Arnold Schwarzenegger Started Doing It.

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Our Nation Must Come Together To Unite.

It Was A Privilege To Be President And It Is A Privilege To Be A Former President And I Believe That I Have Got A Chance To Be A Part Of Something That Is Influential - But Not For My Sake, But For The Sake Of People Dying In Africa Or People Worried About A Free Society In Their Countries Or People Who Wonder Whether There Will Be A Free Market.

But I Have No Desire For Fame And Power Anymore. I Crawled Out Of The Swamp And I'm Not Crawling Back In.

These Stories About My Intellectual Capacity Really Get Under My Skin. You Know, For A While I Even Thought My Staff Believed It. There On My Schedule First Thing Every Morning It Said, 'intelligence Briefing.'

Initiative And Referendum Make Government More Responsive To Its Citizens, Neutralize The Power Of The Special Interests And Stimulate Public Involvement In State Issues.

The Threat From Iran Is, Of Course, Their Stated Objective To Destroy Our Strong Ally Israel. That's A Threat, A Serious Threat. It's A Threat To World Peace; It's A Threat, In Essence, To A Strong Alliance. I Made It Clear, I'll Make It Clear Again, That We Will Use Military Might To Protect Our Ally, Israel.

The U.s. Liberated Iraq From A Tyrant. I Think The Iraqi People Owe The American People A Huge Debt Of Gratitude, And I Believe Most Iraqis Express That. I Mean, The People Understand That We've Endured Great Sacrifice To Help Them. That's The Problem Here In America. They Wonder Whether Or Not There Is A Gratitude Level That's Significant Enough In Iraq.

Too Many Good Docs Are Getting Out Of The Business. Too Many Ob/gyns Aren't Able To Practice Their Love With Women All Across The Country.

There's Just Something About This Job As President Every President Faces, You Know, That You Think One Thing Going In And Then The Pressures Of The Job Or The Realities Of The World, You Know, Are Different Than You Thought.

in A Time Of War, The President Must Have The Power He Needs To Make The Tough Decisions, Including, If Need Be, The Decision To Grant Himself Even More Power.

I Inherited Half My Father's Friends And All His Enemies

It's Exciting For Me To See [laura Bush] Busy And Out There Enjoying What She's Doing. But We Always Make Time To Be With Each Other As Well.

I Don't Want Some Mom Whose Son May Have Recently Died To See The Commander In Chief Playing Golf.

I'm Driven With A Mission From God. God Would Tell Me, 'george, Go And Fight Those Terrorists In Afghanistan.' And I Did, And Then God Would Tell Me, 'george Go And End The Tyranny In Iraq,' And I Did.

I Want To Remind You Right Quick What This Country Has Been Through, And The Challenges This Economy Had Faced Over The Last Three Years. First, We Went Through A Recession. That Means We Were Going Backwards.

This Is Preservation Month. I Appreciate Preservation. It's What You Do When You Run For President. You Gotta Preserve.

By Promoting Liberty Abroad, We Will Build A Safer World. By Encouraging Liberty At Home, We Will Build A More Hopeful America.

Some Of You In This Room Support Higher Taxes. I Welcome Your Enthusiasm And Am Glad To Report That The Irs Takes Both Money Orders And Checks.

There's A Lot Of Things That There's Misconceptions. Evidently It's A Misconceptions That Americans Believe That Muslims Are Terrorists.

I Would Say The Best Moment Of All Was When I Caught A 7.5-lb. Perch In My Lake. (answering A Reporter Who Asked Him To Name The Best Moment Of His Presidency.)

There Are Jobs Americans Arent Doing. ... If Youve Got A Chicken Factory, A Chicken-plucking Factory, Or Whatever You Call Them, You Know What Im Talking About.

I Don't Remember Debates. I Don't Think We Spent A Lot Of Time Debating It. Maybe We Did, But I Don't Remember.

I'm Hopeful. I Know There Is A Lot Of Ambition In Washington, Obviously. But I Hope The Ambitious Realize That They Are More Likely To Succeed With Success As Opposed To Failure.

This Crusade, This War On Terrorism Is Going To Take A While.

In Terms Of Trying To Re-create An Image, I Think That's A Waste Of Time. I Have No Interest In Doing That. The Decisions I Made Are Done.

The Great Contest For The Presidency Is About The Future, Who Can Lead, Who Can Get Things Done.

Intelligence Gathered By This And Other Governments Leaves No Doubt That The Iraq Regime Continues To Possess And Conceal Some Of The Most Lethal Weapons Ever Devised.

Mass Destruction

Saddam Hussein Is A Homicidal Dictator Who Is Addicted To Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

Mass Destruction

What People Can Dream, People Can Do.

Some Have Argued That Confronting The Threat From Iraq Could Detract From The War Against Terror. To The Contrary, Confronting The Threat Posed By Iraq Is Crucial To Winning The War On Terror.

Adoption Was Such A Positive Alternative To Abortion, A Way To Save One Life And Brighten Two More: Those Of The Adoptive Parents.

All Human Life Is Precious.

Life Is Precious

I Am Mindful That We're All Sinners.

Political Humor

The Question Is: Shouldn't Hezbollah Disarm? And Ultimately They Should. And It's Necessary For The Lebanese Government To Succeed.

Forms Of Government Matter, In My Opinion. It Matters How -- The Nature Of The Government In Which People Live.

I Think Most People, When They Take A Look At The Candidates And The Positions Of The Candidates, Realize That Protecting This Country And Keeping This Economy Going Are The Two Most Important Issues. And You Can't Protect The Country If You Retreat From Overseas, And You Can't Keep The Economy Growing If You Raise Taxes. And That's Exactly What The Democrats In The House Would Like To Do.

One Of The Things I Learned As President Is That Your Life Is Just Not Going To Unfold The Way You Want It To. There Will Be Surprises, Challenges, And Therefore The Question Is How You Deal With The Unexpected.

We Know That Dictators Are Quick To Choose Aggression, While Free Nations Strive To Resolve Differences In Peace. We Know That Oppressive Governments Support Terror, While Free Governments Fight The Terrorists In Their Midst. We Know That Free Peoples Embrace Progress And Life, Instead Of Becoming The Recruits For Murderous Ideologies.

The Terrorists Do Not Understand America. The American People Do Not Falter Under Threat, And We Will Not Allow Our Future To Be Determined By Car Bombers And Assassins.

I'm Honored To Shake The Hand Of A Brave Iraqi Citizen Who Had His Hand Cut Off By Saddam Hussein.

My Administration Has A Job To Do And We're Going To Do It. We Will Rid The World Of The Evil-doers.

I Think That Not Criticizing My Successor Is A Statement Unto Itself, In Terms Of Trying To Create An Environment Where People Are Able To Have A Meaningful Discussion Or Debate Without Trash Talk.

Russia's Most Precious Resource Is The Brain Power Of This Country. And You've Got A Lot Of It. It's Going To Take A Lot Of Brains In Russia To Create A Drain.

History Will Look Back, And I'm Fully Prepared To Accept Any Mistakes That History Judges To My Administration, Because The President Makes The Decisions, The President Has To Take The Responsibility.

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

International Law? I Better Call My Lawyer; He Didn't Bring That Up To Me.

The Important Question Is, How Many Hands Have I Shaked?

I'm Going To Spend A Lot Of Time On Social Security. I Enjoy It. I Enjoy Taking On The Issue. I Guess, It's The Mother In Me.

What We Republicans Should Stand For Is Growth In The Economy. We Ought To Make The Pie Higher.

I Understand I'm Running Against A Person Who Is So Anxious To Become President, He Will Do Whatever It Takes.

I Said, Going Into Iraq, "we've Got To Take Threats Seriously Before They Full Materialize." I Saw A Threat. I Fully Believe It Was The Right Decision To Remove Saddam Hussein, And I Fully Believe The World Is Better Off Without Him.

We Go Forward With Complete Confidence In The Eventual Triumph Of Freedom. Not Because History Runs On The Wheels Of Inevitability; It Is Human Choices That Move Events. Not Because We Consider Ourselves A Chosen Nation; God Moves And Chooses As He Wills.

Unfairly But Truthfully, Our Party Has Been Tagged As Being Against Things. Anti-immigrant, For Example. And Were Not A Party Of Anti-immigrants. Quite The Opposite. Were A Party That Welcomes People.

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

Tommy (thompson) Is A Good Listener, And He's A Pretty Good Actor, Too.

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

We Reject The Killing Of Innocents To Achieve A Radical And Violent Agenda. The Terrorists And Their State Sponsors, Iran And Syria, Have A Much Darker Vision. They're Working To Thwart The Efforts That Of The Lebanese People To Break Free From Foreign Domination And Build Their Own Democratic Future. The Terrorists And Their Sponsors Are Not Going To Succeed. The Lebanese People Have Made It Clear They Want To Live In Freedom. And Now It's Up To Their Friends And Allies To Help Them Do So.

The Pentagon Is Constantly Adjusting Tactics Because They Have The Flexibility From The White House To Do So. The Strategy Is To Help The Iraqi People Achieve Their Objectives And Their Dreams, Which Is A Democratic Society. That's The Strategy. The Tactics It's Important That We Stay There And Get It Done; Or We Leave. We're Not Leaving So Long As I'm The President. That Would Be A Huge Mistake.

I Don't Think It's Good For America To Have A Former President Undermine A Current President.

Deeply Impressed With The Blessing Which We Enjoy, And Of Which We Have Much Manifold Proofs, My Mind Is Irresistibly Drawn To That Almighty Being, The Great Source Source From Whence They Proceed And Whom Our Most Grateful Acknowledgements Are Due.

Government Does Not Create Wealth. The Major Role For The Government Is To Create An Environment Where People Take Risks To Expand The Job Rate In The United States.

I'm Just Beginning To Get A Sense For Ways I Can Use Golf - Or Perhaps Mountain Biking At Some Point In Time - To Stay Focused On Causes That Are Dear To My Heart.

Secondly, There Are Such Things As Roving Wiretaps. Now, By The Way, Any Time You Hear The United States Government Talking About Wiretap, It Requires - A Wiretap Requires A Court Order. [...] Nothing Has Changed, By The Way. When We're Talking About Chasing Down Terrorists, We're Talking About Getting A Court Order Before We Do So. [...]

Not Far From Here Where We Gather Today Is A Symbol Of Freedom Familiar To All Americans -- The Liberty Bell. When The Declaration Of Independence Was First Read In Public, The Liberty Bell Was Sounded In Celebration, And A Witness Said: "it Rang As If It Meant Something."

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