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Ultimately, Success Is Going To Be Up To The Reformers, Just Like In Iraq. It's Going To Require Iraqis, The Will Of Iraqis To Succeed. I Understand That. And That's Why Our Strategy Is To Give Them The Tools Necessary To Defend Themselves And Help Them Defend Themselves; In This Case Right Now Mainly In Baghdad, But As Well Around The Country.

-George W. Bush

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Ultimately, Success Is Going To Be Up To The Reformers, Just Like In Iraq. It's Going To Require Iraqis, The Will Of Iraqis To Succeed. I Understand That. And That's Why Our Strategy Is To Give Them The Tools Necessary To Defend Themselves And Help Them Defend Themselves; In This Case Right Now Mainly In Baghdad, But As Well Around The Country.

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So Community Colleges Are Accessible, They're Available, They're Affordable, And Their Curriculums Don't Get Stuck. In Other Words, If There's A Need For A Certain Kind Of Worker, I Presume Your Curriculums Evolved Over Time.

Should Any Iraqi Officer Or Soldier Receive An Order From Saddam Hussein.... Don't Follow That Order. Because If You Choose To Do So, When Iraq Is Liberated, You Will Be Treated, Tried And Persecuted As A War Criminal.

Do I Think Faith Will Be An Important Part Of Being A Good President? Yes, I Do.

Nobody's Ever Suggested That The Attacks Of September The 11th Were Ordered By Iraq. I Have Suggested, However, That Resentment And The Lack Of Hope Create The Breeding Grounds For Terrorists Who Are Willing To Use Suiciders To Kill, To Achieve An Objective. I Have Made That Case.

As Hope Kindles Hope, Millions More Will Find It. By Our Efforts, We Have Lit A Fire As Well - A Fire In The Minds Of Men. It Warms Those Who Feel Its Power, It Burns Those Who Fight Its Progress, And One Day This Untamed Fire Of Freedom Will Reach The Darkest Corners Of Our World.

They Want The Federal Government Controlling The Social Security, Like It's Some Kind Of Federal Program.

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

Well, It's An Unimaginable Honor To Be The President During The Fourth Of July Of This Country. It Means What These Words Say, For Starters. The Great Inalienable Rights Of Our Country. We're Blessed With Such Values In America. And I - It's - I'm A Proud Man To Be The Nation Based Upon Such Wonderful Values.

He's My Man, He Was Great

I Mean, There Needs To Be A Wholesale Effort Against Racial Profiling, Which Is Illiterate Children.

The Only Way To Protect Our People, The Only Way To Secure The Peace, The Only Way To Control Our Destiny Is By Our Leadership -- So The United States Of America Will Continue To Lead

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. [...]

One Thing You Had To Learn [after The Presidency] Was That You No Longer Had The Sense Of Responsibility That Became Ingrained In Your System.

Sense Of Responsibility

I'm Uncomfortable Trying To Rush Change Of Perception, Except To The Extent That I'm Going To Write A Book.

I View My Time In Politics As A Chapter, Not My Life.

This Nation Is Daring And Decent And Ready For Change.

Ready For Change

The Administration Took Care Of A Source Of Instability In Iraq. Envision A World In Which Saddam Hussein Was Rushing For A Nuclear Weapon To Compete Against Iran. My Decision To Remove Saddam Hussein Was The Correct Decision In My Judgment. We Didn't Find The Weapons We Thought We Would Find Or The Weapons Everybody Thought He Had. But He Was A Significant Source Of Instability.

We Had A Shared Experience. That Makes A Good Marriage Better. In Many Ways Our Marriage Is Great Because She Has Made It Great.

I Recognize I Am Essentially A Failed Human Being In The Sense That I Can't Possibly Live Up To The Expectations Of An Almighty.

I Think We're Making Progress. We Understand Where The Power Of This Country Lay. It Lies In The Hearts And Souls Of Americans. It Must Lay In Our Pocketbooks. It Lies In The Willingness For People To Work Hard.

You'll Hear People Say It's Racist To Test. Folks, It's Racist Not To Test. Because Guess Who Gets Shuffled Through The System Oftentimes? Children Whose Parents Don't Speak English As A First Language, Inner-city Kids. It's So Much Easier To Quit On Somebody Than To Remediate.

I Ended Up Being The 43rd President Of The United States. It Was An Awesome Experience, And I'm Glad I Did It.

I View The Relationship With Canada As A Vital Relationship For The United States. The Relationship, Of Course, Is Defined Government-to-government. It's Also Defined People-to-people, And There's A Lot Of People In My Country Who Respect Canada And Have Great Relations With Canadians, And We Intend To Keep It That Way.

The United States And Our Allies Are Determined: We Refuse To Live In The Shadow Of This Ultimate Danger.

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.

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

We Run A Danger Of Trying To Say The Casualties Are Less Than Other Wars Or More Than Expected. It's Just Everybody Matters, Every Person Matters, And What Really Matters Is Having The Strategy And The Will To Make Sure Any Death Is Not - Is Honored By Achieving An Objective.

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