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The Challenge In Iraq Is To Provide A Security Plan Such That A Political Process Can Go Forward. I'm Sure You All Are Tired Of Hearing Me Say 12 Million Iraqi Voted. But It's An Indication About The Desire For People To Live In A Free Society. That's What That Means. The Only Way To Defeat Al Qaida Ideology In The Long Term Is To Defeat It Through Another Ideology, A Competing Ideology, One That - Where Government Responds To The Will Of The People.

-George W. Bush

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The Challenge In Iraq

George W. Bush

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The Challenge In Iraq Is To Provide A Security Plan Such That A Political Process Can Go Forward. I'm Sure You All Are Tired Of Hearing Me Say 12 Million Iraqi Voted. But It's An Indication About The Desire For People To Live In A Free Society. That's What That Means. The Only Way To Defeat Al Qaida Ideology In The Long Term Is To Defeat It Through Another Ideology, A Competing Ideology, One That - Where Government Responds To The Will Of The People.

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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.

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I Think That There Are Certain Principles Which Should Guide Decision-making For A President. One Such Principle Was That We're All God's Children, And Every Life Is Precious. To Me, That's A Moral Statement.

I Do Not Like Abortions. I Will Do Everything In My Power To Restrict Abortion.

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.

We'll Find Them. It'll Be A Matter Of Time To Do So.

One Of The Hardest Parts Of My Job Is To Connect Iraq To The War On Terror.

I Know What I Believe. I Will Continue To Articulate What I Believe And What I Believe - I Believe What I Believe Is Right.

I Realize I Will Never Regain My Anonymity But I Can Certainly Give It A Try. And It's A Lot Of Fun To Give It A Try.

See, In My Line Of Work You Got To Keep Repeating Things Over And Over And Over Again For The Truth To Sink In, To Kind Of Catapult The Propaganda.

Border Relations Between Canada And Mexico Have Never Been Better.

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

There Is A Huge Trust. I See It All The Time When People Come Up To Me And Say, 'i Don't Want You To Let Me Down Again.' - Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000

Please Don't Kill Me!

The Future Success Of Our Nation Depends On Our Children's Ability To Understand The Difference Between Right And Wrong And To Have The Strength Of Character To Make The Right Choices. To Help Them Reach Their Full Potential And Live With Integrity And Pride, We Must Teach Our Children To Be Kind, Responsible, Honest, And Self-disciplined. These Important Values Are First Learned In The Family, But All Of Our Citizens Have An Obligation To Support Parents In The Character Education Of Our Children

Ann And I Will Carry Out This Equivocal Message To The World: Markets Must Be Open.

Here In Usa We Respect Someone's Rights, And As We Profess Tolerance, We Shouldn't Change - Or Have To Change - Our Basic Views On The Sanctity Of Marriage. I Believe In The Sanctity Of Marriage. I Think It's Very Important That We Protect Marriage As An Institution, Between A Man And A Woman.

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