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We Are Bound By Ideals That Teach Us What It Means To Be Citizens. Every Child Must Be Taught These Ideals. Every Citizen Must Uphold Them.... I Ask You To Be Citizens. Citizens, Not Spectators. Citizens, Not Subjects. Responsible Citizens Building Communities Of Service And A Nation Of Character.

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We Are Bound By Ideals That Teach Us What It Means To Be Citizens. Every Child Must Be Taught These Ideals. Every Citizen Must Uphold Them.... I Ask You To Be Citizens. Citizens, Not Spectators. Citizens, Not Subjects. Responsible Citizens Building Communities Of Service And A Nation Of Character.

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If I Were A Candidate For Running, I'd Say, "look At What The Economy Has Done." It's Strong. We've Created A Lot Of Jobs. I'd Be Telling People That The Democrats Will Raise Your Taxes. I'd Be Reminding People That Tax Cuts Have Worked In Terms Of Stimulating The Economy. I'd Be Reminding People There's A Philosophical Difference Between Those Who Want To Raise Taxes And Have The Government Spend The Money, And Those Of Us Who Say, "you Get To Spend The Money The Way You Want To See Fit. It's Your Money."

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Islam Is A Vibrant Faith. Millions Of Our Fellow Citizens Are Muslim. We Respect The Faith. We Honor Its Traditions. Our Enemy Does Not. Our Enemy Doesn't Follow The Great Traditions Of Islam. They've Hijacked A Great Religion.

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Adoption Was Such A Positive Alternative To Abortion, A Way To Save One Life And Brighten Two More: Those Of The Adoptive Parents.

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History Will Prove Me Right. This Is An Exercise In Folly.

The Resolution Approved Today Presents The Iraqi Regime With A Test - A Final Test.

Terrorism Against Our Nation Will Not Stand.

We Know The Surface Temperature Of The Earth Is Warming. It Has Risen By .6 Degrees Celsius Over The Past 100 Years. There Was A Warming Trend From The 1890s To The 1940s, Cooling From The 1940s To The 1970s, And Then Sharply Rising Temperatures From The 1970s To Today.

Any Sign That Says We're Going To Leave Iraq Before The Job Is Done Simply Emboldens Terrorists And Creates A Certain Amount Of Doubt For People, So They Won't Take The Risk Necessary To Help A Civil Society Evolve In The Country.

I Believe That Freedom Is A Gift From An Almighty To Every Man, Woman, And Child; That Is A Principle That Was Important To Me During My Presidency And I Think It's An Important Principle.

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What People Can't Possibly Imagine Is What It's Like To Have Two Presidents Who Have A Relationship As Father And Son.

It Would Send An Unbelievably Terrible Signal To Reformers Across The Region. It Would Say We've Abandoned Our Desire To Change The Conditions That Create Terror. It Would Give The Terrorists A Safe Haven From Which To Launch Attacks. It Would Embolden Iran. It Would Embolden Extremists. That's Why We're Not Leaving Iraq.

America Must Not Ignore The Threat Gathering Against Us. Facing Clear Evidence Of Peril, We Cannot Wait For The Final Proof, The Smoking Gun That Could Come In The Form Of A Mushroom Cloud.

I Feel Like God Wants Me To Run For President. I Can't Explain It, But I Sense My Country Is Going To Need Me. Something Is Going To Happen. I Know It Won't Be Easy On Me Or My Family, But God Wants Me To Do It.

I Wish I Wasn't The War President. Who In The Heck Wants To Be A War President? I Don't.

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We All Know The Big Elephant In The Room. The Big Elephant In The Room Is African Governments. Africa Has Been Totally Mismanaged And Misruled, But Nobody Wants To Talk About That Because Of Political Correctness.

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It's Good To See So Many Friends Here In The Rose Garden. This Is Our First Event In This Beautiful Spot, And It's Appropriate We Talk About Policy That Will Affect People's Lives In A Positive Way In Such A Beautiful, Beautiful Part Of Our National - Really, Our National Park System, My Guess Is You Would Want To Call It.

The Lesson Of September The 11th Is: Take Threats Before They Fully Materialize.

I Would Never Use God To Promote Foreign Policy Decisions. I Recognize That In The Eyes Of An Almighty, I Am A Lowly Sinner, And I Ask For Strength And Wisdom And I Pray For Calmness When The Seas Are Storming, And I Pray For Others.

From The Beginning, I Said That Israel, One, Has A Right To Defend Herself, But Israel Ought To Be Cautious About How She Defends Herself. Israel's A Democratically Elected Government. They Make Decisions On Their Own Sovereignty. It's Their Decision-making That Is What Leads To The Tactics They Chose.

We Must Appreciate The Dignity Of Life In All Its Seasons, Even The Path Of The Elderly In The Twilight Of Their Years, To Work Toward The Day When Every Child, Born And Unborn, Is Welcomed To Life And Protected By Law.

We Honor The Heritage Of All Who Come Here, No Matter Where They Come From, Because We Trust In Our Country's Genius For Making Us All Americans - One Nation Under God.

We Don't Believe In Planners And Deciders Making The Decisions On Behalf Of Americans.

I Think Everybody Knows That Africa Is In A Very Deep Crisis. There Is Economic Misery And Social Deprivation And That Africa Needs Help But The Question Then Is How. And Also We Have To Make Sure That We Don't Repeat Old Mistakes; This Help Is Only Short Term. It Doesn't Address Africa's Long-term Fundamental Needs And How To Put Africa On The Right Track To Development. What Africa Needs To Do Is To Grow, To Grow Out Of Debt.

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And What's Interesting, And I Don't Think A Lot Of Americans Understand This Fact, Is That, One, Most New Jobs Are Created By Small Businesses; Two, Most Small Businesses Pay Tax At The Individual Income Tax, Or Many Small Businesses Pay Tax There.

Grief And Tragedy And Hatred Are Only For A Time. Goodness, Remembrance And Love Have No End, And The Lord Of Life Holds All Who Die And All Who Mourn.

If Someone Came To Me And Said, "your Strategy In Your Post-presidency Is Brilliant," As If I Had Figured Out A Way To Make Me Look Better, To Me, That Analysis Is Amusing.

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I Am Honored To Have Served. I'm Glad I Ran. It Is A Huge Honor To Be Able To Be A Two-term President. It Was Really A Great Experience. I'm Fortunate To Have Been Able To Serve. And I Think That's Enough.

For Decades, Free Nations Tolerated Oppression In The Middle East For The Sake Of Stability. In Practice, This Approach Brought Little Stability And Much Oppression, So I Have Changed This Policy.

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The Legislature's Job Is To Write Law. It's The Executive Branch's Job To Interpret Law.

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I Think It Was In The Rose Garden Where I Issued This Brilliant Statement: If I Had A Magic Wand -- But The President Doesn't Have A Magic Wand. You Just Can't Say, 'low Gas.'

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People Forget... That We Structured It So That The Government, Or The People, Would Be Repaid With A Really Good Rate Of Return. And As It Turns Out, That Aspect Of Tarp, That's What Happened.

1992 Was The Worst Year Of My Life, To Watch My Dad Lose. It Was A Painful Experience. Yet When I Became President, It Was So Much Easier To Be President.

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For Too Long, Many Nations, Including My Own, Tolerated, Even Excused, Oppression In The Middle East In The Name Of Stability. Oppression Became Common, But Stability Never Arrived. We Must Take A Different Approach. We Must Help The Reformers Of The Middle East As They Work For Freedom, And Strive To Build A Community Of Peaceful, Democratic Nations.

I'm Asking Congress To Pass My Zero Down Payment Initiative. We Should Remove The 3 Percent Down Payment Rule For First Time Home Buyers With Fha-insured Mortgages.

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I've Reminded The Prime Minister-the American People, Mr. Prime Minister, Over The Past Months That It Was Not Always A Given That The United States And America Would Have A Close Relationship.

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Well, My Message Is, Is That If You Harbor A Terrorist, You're A Terrorist. If You Feed A Terrorist, You're A Terrorist. If You Develop Weapons Of Mass Destruction That You Want To Terrorize The World, You'll Be Held Accountable. . . . If Anybody Harbors A Terrorist, They're A Terrorist. If They Fund A Terrorist, They're A Terrorist. If They House Terrorists, They're Terrorists. I Mean, I Can't Make It Any More Clearly To Other Nations Around The World. If They Develop Weapons Of Mass Destruction That Will Be Used To Terrorize Nations, They Will Be Held Accountable.

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Faith Gives The Assurance That Our Lives And Our History Have A Moral Design.

In The Future History Will Be Made Only By Us.

The United States Prefers That Iraq Meet Its Obligations Voluntarily, Yet We Are Prepared For The Alternative.

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The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights... Stands As A Landmark Achievement In The History Of Human Liberty.

The Great Thing About America Is, You Don't Have To Listen Unless You Want To.

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...the God I Know Is One That Promotes Peace And Freedom. But I Get Great Sustenance From My Personal Relationship. That Doesn't Make Me Think I'm A Better Person Than You Are, By The Way. Because One Of The Great Admonitions In The Good Book Is, Don't Try To Take A Speck Out Of Your Eye If I've Got A Log In My Own.

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I Trust God Speaks Through Me. Without That, I Couldn't Do My Job.

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The Great Tradition Of America Is One Where People Can Worship The Way They Want To Worship. And If They Choose Not To Worship, They're Just As Patriotic As Your Neighbor. That Is An Essential Part Of Why We Are A Great Nation. If You're A Jew Or A Christian Or A Muslim, You're Equally American.

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History Is Moving, And It Will Tend Toward Hope, Or Tend Toward Tragedy.

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My Job Is To Think Beyond The Immediate.

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Each Day Millions Of Our Citizens Approach Our Maker On Bended Knee, Seeking His Grace And Giving Thanks For The Many Blessings He Bestows Upon Us.

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America Needs A Military Where Our Breast And Brightest Are Proud To Serve.

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The Best Hope For Peace In Our World Is The Expansion Of Freedom In All The World.

I Firmly Believe The Death Tax Is Good For People From All Walks Of Life All Throughout Our Society.

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I've Been In The Bible Every Day Since I've Been The President.

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We Hope That Diplomacy Works Before You Ever Use Force. The Hardest Decision A President Makes Is Ever To Use Force.

Trying To Stop Suiciders -- Which We're Doing A Pretty Good Job Of On Occasion -- Is Difficult To Do. And What The Iraqis Are Going To Have To Eventually Do Is Convince Those Who Are Conducting Suiciders Who Are Not Inspired By Al Qaeda, For Example, To Realize There's A Peaceful Tomorrow.

The Deliberate And Deadly Attacks Which Were Carried Out Yesterday Against Our Country Were More Than Acts Of Terror. They Were Acts Of War.

I Think We Need Not Only To Eliminate The Tollbooth To The Middle Class, I Think We Should Knock Down The Tollbooth.

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If You Raise Taxes During A Recession, You Head To Depression.

There's Just Something About This Job As President Every President Faces, You Know, That You Think One Thing Going In And Then The Pressures Of The Job Or The Realities Of The World, You Know, Are Different Than You Thought.

Of All States That Understands Local Control Of Schools, Iowa Is Such A State.

The More You Defend In The Face Of A Critical Audience, The More You Polarize.

Thats Why We Are Inconveniencing Air Traffickers, To Make Sure Nobody Is Carrying Weapons On Airplanes.

As Governor Of Texas, I Have Set High Standards For Our Public Schools, And I Have Met Those Standards.

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I'm Hopeful. I Know There Is A Lot Of Ambition In Washington, Obviously. But I Hope The Ambitious Realize That They Are More Likely To Succeed With Success As Opposed To Failure.

It Used To Be, People Were Afraid To Talk About Social Security. Now, I Think People Should Be Afraid Not To Talk About Social Security And Start Coming Up With Some Solutions.

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.

I Will Never Relent In Defending America - Whatever It Takes.

Whatever It Takes

Defending America

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First, We Would Not Accept A Treaty That Would Not Have Been Ratified, Nor A Treaty That I Thought Made Sense For The Country.

The Most Important Need Is To Have A Steady Hand At The Wheel, One Which Does Not Deviate From Its Purpose Depending On Which Way The Wind Blows. The Task Of Keeping America Safe And Secure In An Uncertain World Falls Heavily On The President.

Well, I Think If You Say You're Going To Do Something And Don't Do It, That's Trustworthiness.

Freedom, By Its Nature, Must Be Chosen, And Defended By Citizens, And Sustained By The Rule Of Law And The Protection Of Minorities. And When The Soul Of A Nation Finally Speaks, The Institutions That Arise May Reflect Customs And Traditions Very Different From Our Own. America Will Not Impose Our Own Style Of Government On The Unwilling. Our Goal Instead Is To Help Others Find Their Own Voice, Attain Their Own Freedom, And Make Their Own Way.

"reinvention" Is A Word That Doesn't Fit Into My Vocabulary.

Issues Are Won Based Upon Whether Or Not You Can Keep This Economy Strong; Elections Are Won Based Upon Economic Issues And National Security Issues.

I Believe That We Will Succeed In Iraq, Because, One, The Iraqis Want To Live In A Free Society. And, Two, That The Iraqis Want To Take The Fight To The Enemy. And People Want Me To Put A Timetable On Things; That's A Huge Mistake. Putting A Timetable On This - On Our Stay There In Iraq Simply Emboldens The Enemy And Discourages Our Friends.

Israel Is Our Ally And In That We've Made A Very Strong Commitment To Support Israel, We Will Support Israel If Her Security Is Threatened.

The Terrorists Believe That Free Societies Are Essentially Corrupt And Decadent And, With A Few Hard Blows, They Can Force Us To Retreat. They Are Mistaken.

The Will Of The United States Can Be Shaken By Suiciders And Suiciders Who Are Willing To Drive Up To A Red Cross Center, A Center Of International Help And Aid And Comfort, And Just Kill. [...] The Strategy Remains The Same. The Tactics To Respond To More Suiciders Driving Cars Will Alter On The Ground.

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.

I Gave Them A Fair Warning

The Question Is Who Ought To Make That Decision, The Congress Or The Commanders? And As You Know, My Position Is Clear. I'm A Commander Guy.

I Was Not Pleased That Hamas Has Refused To Announce Its Desire To Destroy Israel.

All I Can Tell You Is That I Know The Enemy, Allies, And Troops Hear What I Say.

Democracy Will Be Transformative. It Will Help Other Societies Realize The Benefits Of Freedom. Nothing's As Big As That, In Terms Of Peace.

Through Much Of The Last Century, America's Faith In Freedom And Democracy Was A Rock In A Raging Sea. Now It Is A Seed Upon The Wind, Taking Root In Many Nations.

Golf Teaches You Honesty. It Teaches You Discipline. It Gives You A Strong Appreciation Of Nature. And Personal Responsibility, Something That Lacks In Our Society At Times. I Mean, It's Only Your Fault, You Can't Blame Anyone Else When You Shank It. Or Pick The Wrong Club.

How Can You Possibly Have An International Agreement That's Effective Unless Countries Like China And India Are Not Full Participants?

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

God Told Me To Strike At Al Qaeda And I Struck Them, And Then He Instructed Me To Strike At Saddam [hussein], Which I Did, And Now I Am Determined To Solve The Problem In The Middle East. If You Help Me I Will Act, And If Not, The Elections Will Come And I Will Have To Focus On Them.

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.

Throughout Our History, The Words Of The Declaration Have Inspired Immigrants From Around The World To Set Sail To Our Shores. These Immigrants Have Helped Transform 13 Small Colonies Into A Great And Growing Nation Of More Than 300 People.

I Fully Understand It's Important To Maintain The Separation Of Church And State. We Don't Want The State To Become The Church, Nor Do We Want The Church To Become The State.

I Talked About The Human Suffering In Iraq. And I Also Saw The Need To Advance A Freedom Agenda. Imagine A World In Which Saddam Hussein Was There, Stirring Up Even More Trouble In A Part Of The World That Had So Much Resentment And So Much Hatred That People Came And Killed 3,000 Of Our Citizens. I've Heard This Theory About Everything Was Just Fine Until We Arrived And The Stir-up-the-hornet's- Nest Theory. It Just Doesn't Hold Water, As Far As I'm Concerned. The Terrorists Attacked Us And Killed 3,000 Of Our Citizens Before We Started The Freedom Agenda In The Middle East.

My Geordie Is Probably Just About As Bad As My English.

I've Been To War. I've Raised Twins. If I Had A Choice, I'd Rather Go To War.

After 9/11, We Had To Look At The World Differently. After 9/11, We Had To Recognize That When We Saw A Threat, We Must Take It Seriously Before It Comes To Hurt Us. In The Old Days We'd See A Threat, And We Could Deal With It If We Felt Like It Or Not. But 9/11 Changed It All.

Those Who Enter The Country Illegally Violate The Law.

Intelligence Gathered By This And Other Governments Leaves No Doubt That The Iraq Regime Continues To Possess And Conceal Some Of The Most Lethal Weapons Ever Devised.

Mass Destruction

As A President, My Job Is Not To Promote A Religion, My Job Is To Call People To Serve Our Country.

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

I Mean, There Was A Serious International Effort To Say To Saddam Hussein: 'you're A Threat'. And The 9/11 Attacks Accentuated That Threat, As Far As I'm Concerned.

I Believe In The Universality Of Freedom And Therefore Want To Be Involved In The Freedom Movement.

I Made Friends During My Presidency.

Terrorist Attacks Can Shake The Foundations Of Our Biggest Buildings, But They Cannot Touch The Foundation Of America. These Acts Shatter Steel, But They Cannot Dent The Steel Of American Resolve.

There's No Question That The Minute I Got Elected, The Storm Clouds On The Horizon Were Getting Nearly Directly Overhead.

I Like To Tell People When The Final History Is Written On Iraq, It Will Look Like Just A Comma Because There Is - My Point Is, There's A Strong Will For Democracy.

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