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We Concluded That Tomorrow Is A Moment Of Truth For The World. Many Nations Have Voiced A Commitment To Peace And Security, And Now They Must Demonstrate That Commitment To Peace And Security In The Only Effective Way: By Supporting The Immediate And Unconditional Disarmament Of Saddam Hussein.

-George W. Bush

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We Concluded That Tomorrow

George W. Bush

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We Concluded That Tomorrow Is A Moment Of Truth For The World. Many Nations Have Voiced A Commitment To Peace And Security, And Now They Must Demonstrate That Commitment To Peace And Security In The Only Effective Way: By Supporting The Immediate And Unconditional Disarmament Of Saddam Hussein.

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

Great Tragedy Has Come To Us, And We Are Meeting It With The Best That Is In Our Country, With Courage And Concern For Others Because This Is America. This Is Who We Are.

Concern For Others

I Will Always Stand Firm To Protect The Sanctity Of Marriage. I Believe It Is Important To Work With People To Find Common Ground On Difficult Issues.

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

We Can't Allow The World's Worst Leaders To Blackmail, Threaten, Hold Freedom-loving Nations Hostage With The World's Worst Weapons.

I'm Excited For My Little Girls. When They Left The Nest, I Was Excited Because They Were Winging Their Way Into Life.

There Will Be No Going Back To The Era Before September The 11th, 2001 - To False Comfort In A Dangerous World.

Dangerous World

There's A Lot Of People In The World Who Don't Believe That People Whose Skin Color May Not Be The Same As Ours Can Be Free And Self-govern. I Reject That. I Reject That Strongly. I Believe That People Who Practice The Muslim Faith Can Self-govern. I Believe That People Whose Skins Aren't Necessarily - Are A Different Color Than White Can Self-govern.

They Misunderestimated Me.

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.

The Course Of This Conflict Is Not Known, Yet Its Outcome Is Certain. Freedom And Fear, Justice And Cruelty, Have Always Been At War, And We Know That God Is Not Neutral Between Them.

The Point Is, This Is A Way To Help Inoculate Me About What Has Come And Is Coming.

We're Going To Get [bin Laden]. Dead Or Alive, It Doesn't Matter To Me.

...the Role Of The Military Is To Fight And Win War And, Therefore, Prevent War From Happening In The First Place.

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

Verbosity Leads To Unclear, Inarticulate Things.

No Matter How Advanced Our Economy Might Be, No Matter How Sophisticated Our Equipment Becomes, For The Foreseeable Future We Will Still Depend On Fossil Fuels.

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

I Dont Want To Win? If That Were The Case Why The Heck Am I On The Bus 16 Hours A Day, Shaking Thousands Of Hands, Giving Hundreds Of Speeches, Getting Pillared In The Press And Cartoons And Still Staying On Message To Win?

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.'

I Understand Politics And I Know There's Gonna Be A Lot Of Verbage.

I Suspect People Are Going To Vote For Max Burns Because They Know Him As Local Boy Who's Got - Share Their Values.

I Believe In Open Government. I've Always Believed In Open Government. I Don't E-mail, However. And There's A Reason: I Don't Want You Reading My Personal Stuff.

In Order For The U.n. To Be Effective, There Must Be Consequences If People Thumb Their Nose At The United Nations Security Council. And We Will Work With People On The Security Council To Achieve That Objective.

There Has Been Some Conditionalities In The Sense That This Debt Relief Is Supposed To Release Resources To Be Devoted To Education, Healthcare And Infrastructure, For Example. In The Past African Government Made Such Promises But They Never Carried Them Out.

I Believe It Is In The National Interest That Government Stand Side-by-side With People Of Faith Who Work To Change Lives For The Better. I Understand In The Past, Some In Government Have Said Government Cannot Stand Side-by-side With People Of Faith. Let Me Put It More Bluntly, Government Can't Spend Money On Religious Programs Simply Because There's A Rabbi On The Board, Cross On The Wall, Or A Crescent On The Door. I Viewed This As Not Only Bad Social Policy - Because Policy By-passed The Great Works Of Compassion And Healing That Take Place - I Viewed It As Discrimination.

All Of Us Here Today Understand This: We Do Not Fight Islam, We Fight Against Evil.

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

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

We're Creating An Ownership Society In This Country, Where More Americans Than Ever Will Be Able To Open Up Their Door Where They Live And Say, Welcome To My House, Welcome To My Piece Of Property.

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

Thousands Of Lives Were Suddenly Ended By Evil, Despicable Acts Of Terror. The Pictures Of Airplanes Flying Into Buildings, Fires Burning, Huge Structures Collapsing, Have Filled Us With Disbelief, Terrible Sadness And A Quiet, Unyielding Anger.

It's Exciting For Me To See [laura Bush] Busy And Out There Enjoying What She's Doing. But We Always Make Time To Be With Each Other As Well.

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

It's Important To Take Risks.

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Look, This Is A Man, He's Got Great Numbers. He Talks About Numbers. I'm Beginning To Think Not Only Did He Invent The Internet, But He Invented The Calculator. It's Fuzzy Math. It's A Scaring - Trying To Scare People In The Voting Booth. Under My Tax Plan, That He Continues To Criticize, I Set A Third - The Federal Government Should Take No More Than A Third Of Anybody's Check.

We've Been Able To Watch On Our Television Screens Sophisticated Weaponry Find A Building; And We've Seen Dramatic Reports From The Front Where Pulitzer Prize-to-be Winning Reporters Stood Up And Declared, The United States Is Attacked, And All That.

If The East Timorians Decide To Revolt, Im Sure Ill Have A Statement.

I Am Mindful That We're All Sinners.

Political Humor

This Is A Decent And Honorable Country - And Resilient, Too. We've Been Through A Lot Together. We've Met Challenges And Faced Dangers, And We Know That More Lie Ahead. Yet We Can Go Forward With Confidence - Because The State Of Our Union Is Strong, Our Cause In The World Is Right, And Tonight That Cause Goes On. God Bless.

And Some Needs And Hurts Are So Deep They Will Only Respond To A Mentor's Touch Or A Pastor's Prayer. Church And Charity, Synagogue And Mosque, Lend Our Communities Their Humanity, And They Will Have An Honored Place In Our Plans And Laws.

Except When You're Marching To War, It's Not A Very Optimistic Thought, Is It? In Other Words, It's The Opposite Of Optimistic When You're Thinking You're Going To War.

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

It Helps Me Sleep At Night.

I Think It Is A Worthy Goal In America To Have Every Child Protected By Law And Welcomed In Life. I Also Think We Ought To Continue To Have Good Adoption Law As An Alternative To Abortion.

But We Cannot Allow Weapons Of Mass Destruction To Fall Into The Hands Of Terrorists. I Will Not Allow That To Happen.

Mass Destruction

I Have Written A Book. This Will Come As Quite A Shock To Some. They Didn't Think I Could Read, Much Less Write.

Civility Is Not A Tactic Or A Sentiment. It Is The Determined Choice Of Trust Over Cynicism, Of Community Over Chaos.

We May Discover Resources On The Moon Or Mars That Will Boggle The Imagination, That Will Test Our Limits To Dream. And The Fascination Generated By Further Exploration Will Inspire Our Young People To Study Math, And Science, And Engineering And Create A New Generation Of Innovators And Pioneers.

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

I Would Say The Best Moment Of All Was When I Caught A 7.5-lb. Perch In My Lake. (answering A Reporter Who Asked Him To Name The Best Moment Of His Presidency.)

I Really Don't Want To In The Press, Genuinely Don't Want To Be In The Press.

Look, The Key For Me Is To Keep Expectations Low.

We Can't Impose Freedom, But We Can Eliminate Roadblocks To Freedom, And To Allow Free Societies To Develop.

My Attitude Is That When We Put A Youngster In Harm's Way, Somebody Who Wears Our Nation's Uniform In Harm's Way, He Or She Deserves The Absolute Best.

I Think -- Tide Turning -- See, As I Remember -- I Was Raised In The Desert, But Tides Kind Of -- It's Easy To See A Tide Turn -- Did I Say Those Words?

It Is One Of The Great Goals Of My Administration To Invigorate The Spirit Of Involvement And Citizenship. We Will Encourage Faith-based And Community Programs Without Changing Their Mission.

governments Accountable To The Voters Focus On Building Roads And Schoolsnot Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

Mass Destruction

When John Murtha, For Example, Said The Marines Are Killing Innocent Civilians In Cold Blood.

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