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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.

-George W. Bush

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We Have Learned That

George W. Bush

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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.

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Mass Destruction

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Nation Building

We Have A Duty To Our Country To Participate In The Political Process. See, If You Believe In Freedom, You Have A Duty To Exercise Your Right To Vote To Begin With. I'm [here] To Encourage People To Do Their Duty, To Go To The Polls. I Want All People, No Matter What Their Political Party Is Or Whether They Even Like A Political Party, To Exercise Their Obligation To Vote.

We've Come To Know Truths That We Will Never Question: Evil Is Real, And It Must Be Opposed.

Look, History Is Interesting. I Read Three Books On George Washington Last Year. And My Opinion Is That If They're Still Analyzing The First President, The 43rd President Ought To Be Doing What He Thinks Is Right. And Eventually, Historians Will Come And Realize Whether... The Decisions I Made Made Sense.

I Can Press When There Needs To Be Pressed; I Can Hold Hands When There Needs To Be - Hold Hands.

It Appears To Be A Re-run Of A Bad Movie. [iraqi President Saddam Hussein] Is Delaying. He's Deceiving. He's Asking For Time. He's Playing Hide-and-seek With Inspectors. One Thing Is For Certain - He's Not Disarming.

I Remember Meeting A Mother Of A Child Who Was Abducted By The North Koreans Right Here In The Oval Office.

I'm Absolutely Confident That The Actions We Took In Iraq Are Influencing Reformers And Freedom Lovers In The Greater Middle East. And I Believe That You're Going To See The Rise Of Democracy In Many Countries In The Broader Middle East, Which Will Lay The Foundation For Peace.

We Are Learning More As We Interrogate Or Have Discussions With Iraqi Scientists And People Within The Iraqi Structure, That Perhaps He Destroyed Some, Perhaps He Dispersed Some... And So We Will Find Them.

Mass Destruction

All I Can Tell You Is When The Governor Calls, I Answer His Phone.

I Vowed To Our Countrymen That I Would Do Everything I Could To Protect The American People... That's Why I Said To Afghanistan: If You Harbor A Terrorist, You're Just As Guilty As The Terrorist.

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

Executive Branch

I Couldn't Imagine Somebody Like Osama Bin Laden Understanding The Joy Of Chanukah.

Life In America Shows That Liberty, Paired With Law, Is Not To Be Feared.

In My Judgment, The Only Way To Deal With Terrorists Is To Stay On The Offensive, Is To Find Them And Bring Them To Justice Before They Hurt Us Again.

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

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

First Of All, You Never Retire. At Least I Don't Retire.

For States That Support Terror, It Is Not Enough That The Consequences Be Costly-they Must Be Devastating

What You Do Is As Important As Anything Government Does. I Ask You To Seek A Common Good Beyond Your Comfort; To Defend Needed Reforms Against Easy Attacks; To Serve Your Nation, Beginning With Your Neighbor. 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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