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The Desire For Freedom Resides In Every Human Heart. And That Desire Cannot Be Contained Forever By Prison Walls, Or Martial Laws, Or Secret Police. Over Time, And Across The Earth, Freedom Will Find A Way.

-George W. Bush

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The Desire For Freedom

George W. Bush

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The Desire For Freedom Resides In Every Human Heart. And That Desire Cannot Be Contained Forever By Prison Walls, Or Martial Laws, Or Secret Police. Over Time, And Across The Earth, Freedom Will Find A Way.

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Mass Destruction

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Keep Good Relations With The Grecians.

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Personal Responsibility

Quotas Are Bad For America. It's Not The Way America Is All About.

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 Solution To Iraq - An Iraq That Can Govern Itself, Sustain Itself And Defend Itself - Is More Than A Military Mission. Precisely The Reason Why I Sent More Troops Into Baghdad.

There's A Lot That I Want To Accomplish.

The Best Way To Defeat An Ideology Is With A Better Ideology. And I Believe Democracy Is A Better Ideology.

Our Nation Must Defend The Sanctity Of Marriage.

Sanctity Of Marriage

I Want The Iraqis To Understand That We Are With Them And That They Have To Make Tough Decisions, And We'll Help Them Make Those Tough Decisions For This Country, For This Democracy To Survive. And They've Made Some Tough Decisions.

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Is At The Leading Edge Of A Series Of Moral Hazards.

I Have Zero Desire To Be In The Limelight.

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.

Using Tax Payers' Money To Provide Liquidity To Wall Street So That The Country Wouldn't Head Into A Depression Was The Right Decision, In My Judgment.

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.

Wine Is Like Beer Except Different.

I Want To Tell You How Proud I Am To Be The President Of A Nation That - In Which There's A Lot Of Philippine-americans. They Love America And They Love Their Heritage. And I Reminded The President That I Am Reminded Of The Great Talent Of The - Of Our Philippine-americans When I Eat Dinner At The White House.

That's Important When You Are Running An Organization So That The People Who Work With You Know What You Believe In And Know Those Beliefs Won't Change.

Iraq And Afghanistan Are Now Democracies And They Are Allies In The Cause Of Freedom And Peace.

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