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Sixty Years Of Western Nations Excusing And Accommodating The Lack Of Freedom In The Middle East Did Nothing To Make Us Safe Because In The Long Run Stability Cannot Be Purchased At The Expense Of Liberty. ... The Global Wave Of Democracy Has Barely Reached The Arab States. For Too Long, Many People In That Region Have Been Victims And Subjects. They Deserve To Be Active Citizens.

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George W. Bush

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Sixty Years Of Western Nations Excusing And Accommodating The Lack Of Freedom In The Middle East Did Nothing To Make Us Safe Because In The Long Run Stability Cannot Be Purchased At The Expense Of Liberty. ... The Global Wave Of Democracy Has Barely Reached The Arab States. For Too Long, Many People In That Region Have Been Victims And Subjects. They Deserve To Be Active Citizens.

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So On Behalf Of A Well-oiled Unit Of People Who Came Together To Serve Something Greater Than Themselves, Congratulations.

Congratulations

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If You're Sick And Tired Of The Politics Of Cynicism And Polls And Principles, Come And Join This Campaign.

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No Insignificant Person Was Ever Born.

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Self-government Relies, In The End, On The Governing Of The Self.

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I Reads Every Chance I Can Gets.

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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.

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Personal Responsibility

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I Really Appreciate Leaders From Around The Globe Who Have Come To Share In Prayer With Us Today. It Reminds Me That The Almighty God Is A God To Everybody, Every Person.

There Are Prayers That Help Us Last Through The Day, Or Endure The Night. There Are Prayers Of Friends And Strangers, That Give Us Strength For The Journey. And There Are Prayers That Yield Our Will To A Will Greater Than Our Own.

America Has Entered A Great Struggle That Tests Our Strength, And Even More Our Resolve. Our Nation Is Patient And Steadfast. We Continue To Pursue The Terrorists In Cities And Camps And Caves Across The Earth. We Are Joined By A Great Coalition Of Nations To Rid The World Of Terror. And We Will Not Allow Any Terrorist Or Tyrant To Threaten Civilization With Weapons Of Mass Murder. Now And In The Future, Americans Will Live As Free People, Not In Fear, And Never At The Mercy Of Any Foreign Plot Or Power.

Hundreds Of Thousands Of American Servicemen And Women Are Deployed Across The World In The War On Terror. By Bringing Hope To The Oppressed, And Delivering Justice To The Violent, They Are Making America More Secure.

These People Are Trying To Shake The Will Of The Iraqi Citizens, And They Want Us To Leave...i Think The World Would Be Better Off If We Did Leave.

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.

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.

When Our Children And Grandchildren Look Back On This Period, One Question Will Overwhelm All The Rest: Did We Do Everything In Our Power To Fight And To Win The War On Terror? That's The Fundamental Question This Generation Faces.

Our Nation Is Somewhat Sad, But We're Angry. There's A Certain Level Of Blood Lust, But We Won't Let It Drive Our Reaction. We're Steady, Clear-eyed And Patient, But Pretty Soon We'll Have To Start Displaying Scalps.

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.

It's Exciting; I Don't Know Whether I'm Going To Win Or Not. I Think I Am. I Do Know I'm Ready For The Job. And, If Not, That's Just The Way It Goes.

You've Got To Be Pretty Hopeless To Become A Suicide Bomber.

Suicide Bombers

Ronald Reagan Was A Great Role Model For Respublicans Party, And I Think For Most People. But He Was A Fellow That The American Public Just Intuitively Loved So Much, That He Could Always Get Credit.

The Best Way To Fight Evil Is To Do Some Good. Let Me Qualify That—the Best Way To Fight Evil At Home Is To Do Some Good. The Best Way To Fight Them Abroad Is To Unleash The Military.

When You Turn Your Heart And Your Life Over To Christ, When You Accept Christ As The Savior, It Changes Your Heart.

I Don't Make Any Apologies For What I Do On The Campaign Trail.

I've Been Trying To Tame Our Press Corps Ever Since I Got Into Politics, And I've Failed Miserably. They Get To Express Their Opinions Sometimes In The Form Of News.

Governor Bush Will Not Stand For The Subsidation Of Failure.

Political Humor

America Is The Largest Investor In The Technologies Necessary To Be Able To Say To People, 'you Can Grow Your Economy So People's Standard Of Living Can Improve, And At The Same Time Be Good Stewards Of The Environment'.

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Prayer Has Comforted Us In Sorrow And Will Help Strengthen Us For The Journey Ahead.

Everything Happens For A Reason

And One Thing We Want During This War On Terror Is For People To Feel Like Their Life's Moving On, That They're Able To Make A Living And Send Their Kids To College And Put More Money On The Table.

One Of My Proudest Moments Is I Didn't Sell My Soul For The Sake Of Popularity.

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The Budget Caps Were Busted, Mightily So. And We Are Reviewing With People Like Judd Gregg From New Hampshire And Others Some Budgetary Reform Measures That Will Reinstate - You Know, Possibly Reinstate Budgetary Discipline. But The Caps No Longer - The Caps, I Guess They're There. But They Didn't Mean Much.

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 All-volunteer Army Works. It Works Particularly When We Pay Our Troops Well.

The Terrorist Attacks On September The 11th Were A Turning Point For Our Nation. We Saw The Goals Of A Determined Enemy To Expand The Scale Of Their Murder And Force America To Retreat From The World. And Our Nation Accepted A Mission. We Will Defeat This Enemy. The United States Of America Is Determined To Guard Our Homeland Against Future Attacks. As The September 11th Commission Concluded, Our Country Is Safer Than We Were Three Years Ago, But We Are Not Yet Safe

[should] Iraq Acquire Fissile Material, It Would Be Able To Build A Nuclear Weapon Within A Year.

But I'm Mindful In A Free Society That People Can Worship If They Want To Or Not. You're Equally An American If You Choose To Worship An Almighty And If You Choose Not To. If You're A Christian, Jew Or Muslim You're Equally An American. That's The Great Thing About America Is The Right To Worship The Way You See Fit. Prayer And Religion Sustain Me. I Receive Calmness In The Storms Of The Presidency. I Love The Fact That People Pray For Me And My Family All Around The Country. Somebody Asked Me One Time, How Do You Know? I Said I Just Feel It.

To Date, We've Arrested Or Otherwise Dealt With Many Key Commanders Of Al Qaeda... All Told, More Than 3,000 Suspected Terrorists Have Been Arrested In Many Countries. Many Others Have Met A Different Fate. Let's Put It This Way - They Are No Longer A Problem To The United States And Our Friends And Allies.

Some Who Call Themselves Realists Question Whether The Spread Of Democracy In The Middle East Should Be Any Concern Of Ours. But The Realists In This Case Have Lost Contact With A Fundamental Reality: America Has Always Been Less Secure When Freedom Is In Retreat; America Is Always More Secure When Freedom Is On The March.

What I'm Telling You Is There's Too Many Junk Lawsuits Suing Too Many Doctors.

Our Intelligence Officials Estimate That Saddam Hussein Had The Materials To Produce As Much As 500 Tons Of Sarin, Mustard And Vx Nerve Agent.

Mass Destruction

Not Every Action Requires Military Action. As A Matter Of Fact, Military Action Is The Very Last Resort For Us.

Do You Realize We've Got 250 Million Years Of Coal? But Coal Has Got Environmental Hazards To It, But There's-i'm Convinced, And I Know That We-technology Can Be Developed So We Can Have Zero-emissions Coal-fired Electricity Plants.

I Can Only Give My Life In A Way That Makes Me Comfortable.

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

A Lot Of Times In Politics You Have People Look You In The Eye And Tell You What's Not On Their Mind.

We Will Not Waver, We Will Not Tire, We Will Not Falter, And We Will Not Fail. Peace And Freedom Will Prevail.

What Matters Is That In This Iraq Campaign That We Clarify The Different Points Of View. And There Are A Lot Of People In The Democratic Party Who Believe That The Best Course Of Action Is To Leave Iraq Before The Job Is Done. Period. And They're Wrong. And The American People Have Got To Understand The Consequence Of Leaving Iraq Before The Job Is Done. We're Not Going To Leave Iraq Before The Job Is Done And We'll Complete The Mission In Iraq.

The Enemies Of Liberty And Our Country Should Make No Mistake: America Remains Engaged In The World By History And By Choice, Shaping A Balance Of Power That Favors Freedom. We Will Defend Our Allies And Our Interests. We Will Show Purpose Without Arrogance. We Will Meet Aggression And Bad Faith With Resolve And Strength. And To All Nations, We Will Speak For The Values That Gave Our Nation Birth... An Angel Still Rides In The Whirlwind And Directs This Storm.

They Misunderestimated Me.

George H. W. Bush Is Gracious. And I'm Not Saying Any Of The Former Presidents Aren't Gracious, I'm Just Saying, This Man Is Gracious.

George H W Bush

The Survival Of Liberty In Our Land Increasingly Depends On The Success Of Liberty In Other Lands.

States Should Have The Right To Enact Laws... Particularly To End The Inhumane Practice Of Ending A Life That Otherwise Could Live.

The Senator Has Got To Understand If He's Going To Have - He Can't Have It Both Ways. He Can't Take The High Horse And Then Claim The Low Road.

All Human Life Is Precious.

Life Is Precious

America Is The Land Of The Second Chance - And When The Gates Of The Prison Open, The Path Ahead Should Lead To A Better Life.

The Point Now Is How Do We Work Together To Achieve Important Goals. And One Such Goal Is A Democracy In Germany.

Working Together

I Don't Know, Maybe I Made It Up. Anyway, It's An Arbo-tree-ist, Somebody Who Knows About Trees.

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