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The Lure Of Heady Profits Of The Late 1990's Spawned Abuses And Excesses. With Strict Enforcement And Higher Ethical Standards, We Must Usher In A New Era Of Integrity In Corporate America.

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The Lure Of Heady

George W. Bush

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The Lure Of Heady Profits Of The Late 1990's Spawned Abuses And Excesses. With Strict Enforcement And Higher Ethical Standards, We Must Usher In A New Era Of Integrity In Corporate America.

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I've Coined New Words, Like, Misunderstanding And "hispanically".

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The Great Thing About America Is Everybody Should Vote.

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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'm Sure Something Will Pop Into My Head Here In The Midst Of This Press Conference, With All The Pressure Of Trying To Come Up With An Answer, But It Hadn't Yet.

If We Don't Stop Extending Our Troops All Around The World In Nation-building Missions, We're Going To Have A Serious Problem Coming Down The Road.

I Think Anybody Who Doesn't Think I'm Smart Enough To Handle The Job Is Underestimating.

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We're Fighting People That Hates Our Values, They Can't Stand What America Stands For.

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Globalization Has Altered The Dynamics In The White House, As Well As Between The White House And The Treasury.

We'll Let Our Friends Be The Peacekeepers And The Great Country Called America Will Be The Pacemakers.

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

This Thanksgiving, Americans Are Especially Thankful For Our Freedom, And We Are Especially Thankful To You, Those Who Keep Us Free.

So I Analyzed That And Decided I Didn't Want To Be The President During A Depression Greater Than The Great Depression, Or The Beginning Of A Depression Greater Than The Great Depression.

Great Depression

I'm Not So Sure The Role Of The United States Is Going Around The World Saying This Is The Way Its Gotta Be.

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You've Just Got To Do What You Think Is Right, And Just Make The Decisions Based Upon Noble Causes. And A Noble Cause Is Peace And Security And Freedom.

Security And Freedom

North Korea Is A Regime Arming With Missiles And Weapons Of Mass Destruction, While Starving Its Citizens.

Mass Destruction

We Will Export Death And Violence To The Four Corners Of The Earth In Defense Of Our Great Nation.

My Point Is That She's [laura Bush] Busy And I'm Busy, Which Makes Our Marriage Not Only Interesting But Exciting.

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I Have A Duty To Protect The Executive Branch From Legislative Encroachment.

Executive Branch

The Fight Against Terrorism Is Not Limited To America. Europe, Russia, Indonesia, Australia, The Phillipines, All Have Had Their Share Of It, And All The Leaders Have Been Very Cooperative In Our Efforts. But It Is For America To Lead, And We Will.

If You Haven't Doubted, You Probably Haven't Thought Very Hard About What You Believe.

No President Has Ever Done More For Human Rights Than I Have.

Israel Is A Solid Ally Of The United States. We Will Rise To Israel's Defense, If Need Be. So This Kind Of Menacing Talk [by The President Of Iran] Is Disturbing. It's Not Only Disturbing To The United States, It's Disturbing For Other Countries In The World, As Well. Asked Whether He Meant The U.s. Would Rise To Israel's Defense Militarily, Bush Said: "you Bet, We'll Defend Israel."

My Hope Was That By Saying Clearly To Saddam Hussein, "we're Going To Enforce Un Resolutions," That He Would Make The Decision To Leave Peaceably And At Least Allow For Inspectors To Come Into His Country, And If He Chose Not To, There Would Be A Military Option. I Want People To Understand That The Military Was My Last Option. I Had A Strategy And Hopefully Solving The Problem Peacefully - And It Wasn't Just Me, It Was A Coalition Of Nations That Were Involved.

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.

We Cannot Step Aside And Say That We Have Achieved Our Goal By Inventing A New Drug Or A New Way By Which To Treat Presently Incurable Diseases, A New Way To Help Those Who Suffer From Malnutrition, Or The Creation Of Ideal Balanced Diets On A Worldwide Scale. We Cannot Rest Till The Way Has Been Found, With Our Help, To Bring Our Finest Achievement To Everyone.

History Has An Author Who Fills Time And Eternity With His Purpose.

We Have Learned That Terrorist Attacks Are Not Caused By The Use Of Strength; They Are Invited By The Perception Of Weakness. And The Surest Way To Avoid Attacks On Our Own People Is To Engage The Enemy Where He Lives And Plans. We Are Fighting That Enemy In Iraq And Afghanistan Today So That We Do Not Meet Him Again On Our Own Streets, In Our Own Cities.

I Walked Away From Kyoto Because It Would Damage America's Economy, You Bet. It Would Have Destroyed Our Economy. It Was A Lousy Deal For The American Economy. I Felt There Was A Better Way.

This Will Not Be A Campaign Of Half Measures, And We Will Accept No Outcome Except Victory.

I Would Have To Ask The Questioner. I Haven't Had A Chance To Ask The Questioners The Question They've Been Questioning. On The Other Hand, I Firmly Believe She'll Be A Fine Secretary Of Labor. And I've Got Confidence In Linda Chavez. She Is A - She'll Bring An Interesting Perspective To The Labor Department.

We Don't Need Mass Armies Anymore. We Replace It With More Effective Equipment.

Bin Laden Says His Own Role Is To Tell Muslims, Quote, 'what Is Good For Them And What Is Not.'

Some Folks Look At Me And See A Certain Swagger, Which In Texas Is Called 'walking.'

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In The Corporate World, Sometimes Things Aren`t Exactly Black And White When It Comes To Accounting Procedures.

Black And White

Keep Good Relations With The Grecians.

You Might Want To Comment On That, Honorable.

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I'm A Content Person And I'm Content Knowing That I Gave It My All When I Was President.

I Knew It Might Put Him In An Awkward Position That We Had A Discussion Before Finality Has Finally Happened In This Presidential Race.

When Your Economy Is Kind Of Ooching Along, It's Important To Let People Have More Of Their Own Money.

Just Remember It's The Birds That's Supposed To Suffer, Not The Hunter.

As Gerhard Schröder Said In The Oval Office, A Democratic Iraq Is Important Not Only To Germany, But To Europe, And He's Right.

Evil Knows No Holiday.

Our Founding Fathers Understood That Our Country Would Survive And Flourish If Our Nation Was Committed To Good Character And An Unyielding Dedication To Liberty And Justice For All.

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

As Young Americans, You Have An Important Responsibility, Which Is To Become Good Citizens.

Right Now, Iraq Is Expanding And Improving Facilities That Were Used For The Production Of Biological Weapons.

Mass Destruction

Wait A Minute. What Did You Just Say? You're Predicting $4-a-gallon Gas? ... That's Interesting. I Hadn't Heard That.

Everywhere That Freedom Stirs, Let Tyrants Fear.

For Too Long Our Culture Has Said, "if It Feels Good, Do It." Now America Is Embracing A New Ethic And A New Creed: "let's Roll".

I Sent American Troops To Iraq To Make Its People Free, Not To Make Them American. Iraqis Will Write Their Own History And Find Their Own Way.

This Is A Very Difficult Assignment For The United States, To Hang In There And Help This Young Democracy Survive.

The American People Have Got A Touchstone: Which Party Voted For The Tools Necessary To Protect America And Which Party Didn't? And That's What I'm Trying To Get People To Focus On.

You Can Imagine These Radicals Getting A Hold Of A Country Where They're Able To Pull Oil Off The Market To Run The Price Of Oil Up To Extract Concession.

There Are Some Similarities, Of Course (between Iraq And Vietnam). Death Is Terrible.

Some Call This Civil War; Others Call It Emergency -- I Call It Pure Evil.

It's Important To Reach Out To Moderate Arab Nations, Like Jordan And Egypt, Saudi Arabia And Kuwait.

These Aren't Joyous Times When We Have War In Iraq. These Are Challenging Times, And They're Difficult Times, And They're Straining The Psyche Of Our Country. I Understand That.

About 14 Percent Of Our Nation's Civilian Workforce Is Foreign-born.

Are The Peoples Of The Middle East Somehow Beyond The Reach Of Liberty? Are Millions Of Men And Women And Children Condemned By History Or Culture To Live In Despotism? Are They Alone Never To Know Freedom And Never Even To Have A Choice In The Matter?

The Decisions I Made Are Done. And History Will Judge Whether Or Not They Were Correct. There's No Such Thing As Accurate Short-term History.

Thousands Of Trained Killers Are Plotting To Attack Us, And This Terrible Knowledge Requires Us To Act Differently.

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