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We Reflect On What Has Been Lost And Comfort Those Enduring A Profound Grief. And Somehow We Know That A Brighter Morning Will Come.

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I Do Know That It’s Important For Us To Support The Iraqi People, Who Have Shown Incredible Courage In Their Desire To Live In A Free Society. And If We Ever Give Up The Desire To Help People Who Live In Freedom, We Will Have Lost Our Soul As A Nation, As Far As I’m Concerned.

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Every Action Being Taken Against Terrorists Requires Court Order, Requires Scrutiny.

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

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Having Purpose. I Had Purpose During My Presidency, And I've Got Purpose After My Presidency.

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If You Are Young Child And You've Lost Mother And Dad To Aids And Rich Nations Sit On The Sidelines Not Caring, You Will Become A Frustrated Person And A Hopeless Person.

...by Allowing Businesses To Expense Up To $75,000, It Means Somebody Is More Likely To Buy A Copying Machine, Or In This Case, An Architectural... Fancy Machine.

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Just Like We Did In Japan, In South Korea. Just Like Is Happening In Iraq. Laura [bush] And I Feel Very Strongly That If The United States Were To Leave.

Democrats In Washington Predicted That Tax Cuts Would Not Create Jobs, Would Not Increase Wages, And Would Cause The Federal Deficit To Explode. Well, The Facts Are In. The Tax Cuts Have Led To A Strong Economy. Real Wages Were On The Rise, And Deficit Has Been Cut In Half Three Years Ahead Of Schedule.

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

I Love My Brother, And I Respect His Service, I Haven't Been In Washington ... Ever. I'm Not Part Of Washington.

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

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I Don't Think Our Troops Ought To Be Used For What's Called Nation Building.

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In Time, Perhaps, We Will Mark The Memory Of September 11th In Stone And Metal, Something We Can Show Children, As Yet Unborn, To Help Them Understand What Happened On This Minute And On This Day. But For Those Of Us Who Lived Through These Events, The Only Marker We’ll Ever Need Is The Tick Of A Clock At The 46th Minute Of The Eighth Hour Of The 11th Day.

The Only Thing I Know About Slovakia Is What I Learned First-hand From Your Foreign Minister, Who Came To Texas.

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We're Too Great A Nation To Allow The Evil-doers To Affect Our Soul And Our Spirit.

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The Islam That We Know Is A Faith Devoted To The Worship Of One God, As Revealed Through The Holy Qu'ran. It Teaches The Value And Importance Of Charity, Mercy, And 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.

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By Heritage And By Choice, The United States Of America Will Make That Stand.

We've Seen Their Kind Before. The Terrorists Are The Heirs To Fascism. They Have The Same Wield Of Power, The Same Disdain For The Individual, The Same Mad Global Ambitions. And They Will Be Dealt With In Just The Same Way. Like All Fascists, The Terrorists Can Not Be Appeased. They Must Be Defeated. This Struggle Will Not End In A Truce Or A Treaty. It Will End In Victory For The United States, Our Friends And For The Cause Of Freedom.

One Of My Concerns Is That The Health Care Not Be As Good As It Can Possibly Be.

The Cornerstone Of Our Policy In That Part Of The World Is To Help Democracies. Lebanon's A Democracy. We Want The Siniora Government To Succeed.

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We All Know That Men And Women Can Be Good Without Faith. And We Also Know That Faith Is An Incredibly Important Source Of Goodness In Our Country.

I Want To Remind You All That In Order To Fight And Win The War, It Requires An Expenditure Of Money That Is Commiserate With Keeping A Promise To Our Troops To Make Sure That They're Well Paid, Well Trained, Well Equipped.

I Developed A Reputation As A "hothead" Because I Got In The Face Of A Lot Of Reporters And They Thought I Was Just A Hotheaded Person. What They Didn't Understand Was That I Was Motivated By Love.

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"statesman" Presumes I'm Out There Giving Opinions All The Time About Things, And No, I'm Not Interested In Opining On A Lot Of Subjects.

I'm Honored To Shake The Hand Of A Brave Iraqi Citizen Who Had His Hand Cut Off By Saddam Hussein.

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It's Your Money. You Paid For It.

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Compassionate Conservative Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations.

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In Recent Weeks We Learned That Scientists Have Created Human Embryos In Test Tubes Solely To Experiment On Them. This Is Deeply Troubling, And A Warning Sign That Should Prompt All Of Us To Think Through These Issues Very Carefully.

Free Societies Are Hopeful Societies. And Free Societies Will Be Allies Against These Hateful Few Who Have No Conscience, Who Kill At The Whim Of A Hat.

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These Demands Are Not Open To Negotiation Or Discussion.

I Don't Bring God Into My Life To - To, You Know, Kind Of Be A Political Person.

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I Would Like To Be Remembered As A Guy Who Had A Set Of Priorities, And Was Willing To Live By Those Priorities. In Terms Of Accomplishments, My Biggest Accomplishment Is That I Kept The Country Safe Amidst A Real Danger.

I'm Going To Put People In My Place, So When The History Of This Administration Is Written At Least There's An Authoritarian Voice Saying Exactly What Happened.

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There's A Lot That I Want To Accomplish.

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This Administration Is Doing Everything We Can To End The Stalemate In An Efficient Way. We're Making The Right Decisions To Bring The Solution To An End.

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.

Either Well Succeed, Or We Wont Succeed. And The Definition Of Success As I Described Is Sectarian Violence Down. Success Is Not No Violence.

A Dictatorship Would Be A Heck Of A Lot Easier, There's No Question About It.

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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.

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The Reason We Start A War Is To Fight A War, Win A War, Thereby Causing No More War!

That's Washington. That's The Place Where You Find People Getting Ready To Jump Out Of The Foxholes Before The First Shot Is Fired.

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I Don't Think You're Entitled To Read My Mail Between My Daughters And Me.

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If Our Commanders On The Ground Say We Need More Troops, I Will Send Them. But Our Commanders Tell Me They Have The Number Of Troops They Need To Do Their Job. Sending More Americans Would Undermine Our Strategy Of Encouraging Iraqis To Take The Lead In This Fight. And Sending More Americans Would Suggest That We Intend To Stay Forever, When We Are, In Fact, Working For The Day When Iraq Can Defend Itself And We Can Leave.

You Never Know What Your History Is Going To Be Like Until Long After You're Gone.

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

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.

I Meant It When I Said She Was The Greatest First Lady Ever. Because She Viewed The Presidency And Being First Lady As An Opportunity To Improve People's Lives. It Wasn't A Burden. She Put Her Heart And Soul Into The Experience, Just Like I Did.

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Freedom Itself Was Attacked This Morning By A Faceless Coward, And Freedom Will Be Defended.

Libraries Promote The Sharing Of Knowledge, Connecting People Of All Ages With Valuable Information Resources. These Dynamic And Modern Institutions, And The Librarians Who Staff Them, Add Immeasurably To Our Quality Of Life.

We Will Not Permit The Triumph Of Violence In The Affairs Of Men; Free People Will Set The Course Of History.

Families Is Where Our Nation Finds Hope, Where Wings Take Dream.

I Am A Person Who Recognizes The Fallacy Of Humans.

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I'm Not Surprised If We Begin To Uncover The Weapons Program Of Saddam Hussein - Because He Had A Weapons Program.

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Our Plan Will Not Favor Religious Institutions Over Nonreligious Institutions. As President, I'm Interested In What Is Constitutional And I'm Interested In What Works.

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Let's Get Rid Of All Our Subsidies Together. Let's Join Hands As Wealthy Industrialised Nations And Say To The World, We're Going To Get Rid Of All Our Agricultural Subsidies Together.

I Wish They Weren't Called The 'bush Tax Cuts.' If They're Called Some Other Body's Tax Cuts, They're Probably Less Likely To Be Raised.

We See In Islam A Religion That Traces Its Origins Back To God's Call On Abraham. We Share Your Belief In God's Justice, And Your Insistence On Man's Moral Responsibility. We Thank The Many Muslim Nations Who Stand With Us Against Terror. Nations That Are Often Victims Of Terror, Themselves.

Coalition Forces Have Encountered Serious Violence In Some Areas Of Iraq. Our Military Commanders Report That This Violence Is Being Insticated By Three Groups.

[people] Don't Judge You On What Would Have Happened In The Absence Of A Decision.

We Think It Is In Our Nation's Interest That Afghan Women - Or Any Women Around The World - Not Suffer.

I'd Also Remind People, If I Were Running For Presidency, That A Long-term Problem Facing The Budget Is Social Security And Medicare.

We Will Build New Ships To Carry Man Forward Into The Universe, To Gain A New Foothold On The Moon And To Prepare For New Journeys To The Worlds Beyond Our Own.

America Rejects Bigotry. We Reject Every Act Of Hatred Against People Of Arab Background Or Muslim Faith America Values And Welcomes Peaceful People Of All Faiths - Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu And Many Others. Every Faith Is Practiced And Protected Here, Because We Are One Country. Every Immigrant Can Be Fully And Equally American Because We're One Country. Race And Color Should Not Divide Us, Because America Is One Country.

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Our Law Enforcement Must Have Every Tool Necessary To Find And Disrupt Terrorists At Home And Abroad. That's The Task Of The 21st Century.

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.

Hindsight Alone Is Not Wisdom. And Second-guessing Is Not A Strategy.

If You Don't Succeed, You Run The Risk Of Failure.

The Bill Congress Sent Me Would Take Away One Of The Most Valuable Tools In The War On Terror... So Today I Vetoed It.

I Believe That God Wants Me To Be President.

It's One Thing About Insurance, That's A Washington Term.

We Got Plenty Of Money In Washington. What We Need Is More Priority.

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You Know, Obviously I Wish The Violence Would Go Down, But Not As Much As The Iraqi Citizens Would Wish The Violence Would Go Down. But, Incredibly Enough, They Showed Great Courage, And They Want Our Help.

I Want To Tell You How Proud I Am To Be The President Of A Nation That - In Which There's A Lot Of Philippine-americans. They Love America And They Love Their Heritage. And I Reminded The President That I Am Reminded Of The Great Talent Of The - Of Our Philippine-americans When I Eat Dinner At The White House.

In The Past We Entrusted Money To The Government Sector And The Government Sector Simply Did Not Spend The Money Wisely. And That Is Why We Need Reforms, But The Government Sector Is Not Being Reformed.

I Suspect That Had My Dad Not Been President, He'd Be Asking The Same Questions: How'd Your Meeting Go With So-and-so? . How Did You Feel When You Stood Up In Front Of The People For The State Of The Union Address-state Of The Budget Address, Whatever You Call It.

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

I Think If We Have A Policy Of Zero Violence, It Won't Be Met, But The Policy Of Getting The Iraqis In The Fight And Marginalizing Those Who Are Trying To Stir Up Trouble Will Be Effective.

I Wouldn't Join The International Criminal Court. This Is A Body Based In The Hague Where Unaccountable Judges, Prosecutors, Could Pull Our Troops, Our Diplomats Up For Trial. And I Wouldn't Join. And I Understand That In Certain Capitals Of, Around The World That That Wasn't A Popular Move. But It's The Right Move Not To Join A Foreign Court That Could, Where Our People Could Be Prosecuted.

It's Amazing I Won. I Was Running Against Peace, Prosperity, And Incumbency." —george W. Bush, June 14, 2001, Speaking To Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, Unaware That A Live Television Camera Was Still Rolling.

America Is Addicted To Oil...we Must Also Change How We Power Our Automobiles. We Will Increase Our Research In Better Batteries For Hybrid And Electric Cars And In Pollution-free Cars That Run On Hydrogen. We Will Also Fund Additional Research In Cutting-edge Methods Of Producing Ethanol, Not Just From Corn But From Wood Chips And Stalks Or Switch Grass.

A Lot Of Times In The Rhetoric, People Forget The Facts. And The Facts Are That Thousands Of Small Businesses-hispanically Owned Or Otherwise-pay Taxes At The Highest Marginal Rate.

In Addition To Declaring And Destroying All Of Its Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Iraq Must End Its Support For Terrorism. It Must Cease The Persecution Of Its Civilian Population. It Must Stop All Illicit Trade Outside The Oil-for-food Program. And It Must Release Or Account For All Gulf War Personnel, Including An American Pilot, Whose Fate Is Still Unknown. By Taking These Steps, And Only By Taking These Steps, The Iraqi Regime Has An Opportunity To Avoid Conflict. These Steps Would Also Change The Nature Of The Iraqi Regime Itself. America Hopes The Regime Will Make That Choice.

I Think The Key Anecdote In The Book Is When Colin [powell] And I Were Discussing Iraq. Colin Was Upstairs In The Treaty Room, In The Residence. And He Talks About His Concerns About The Use Of Military In Iraq. And I Said I Felt The Same Concerns, But It Might Be That We Have To Use It. In Which Case, He Said, "i Support You."

There Is But One Just Use Of Power And It Is To Serve People.

Servant Leadership

During My Senior Year I Joined Skull And Bones, A Secret Society, So Secret I Can't Say Anything More.

They Misunderestimated Me.

The Notion Of Democracy Beginning To Emerge Scares The Ideologues, The Totalitarians, Those Who Want To Impose Their Vision. It Just Frightens Them.

I Was Always At About 70/30. About 70 Percent Of The People Of My District Appreciated Me, And About 30 Percent Had Quite Another View Of Me.

So It Is The Policy Of The United States To Seek And Support The Growth Of Democratic Movements And Institutions In Every Nation And Culture, With The Ultimate Goal Of Ending Tyranny In Our World.

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.

The Best Way To Defeat An Ideology Is With A Better Ideology. And I Believe Democracy Is A Better Ideology.

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.

I Am Comfortable That The Principles That I Articulated Were Never Compromised.

Never Compromise

The Solution To Iraq - An Iraq That Can Govern Itself, Sustain Itself And Defend Itself - Is More Than A Military Mission. Precisely The Reason Why I Sent More Troops Into Baghdad.

I Understand Religion Is A Walk, It's A Journey. And I Fully Recognize That I'm A Sinner, Just Like You.

in A Time Of War, The President Must Have The Power He Needs To Make The Tough Decisions, Including, If Need Be, The Decision To Grant Himself Even More Power.

I Made Friends During My Presidency.

I Don't Read Books, But I Have Friends Who Do.

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

In The End, Leaders Are Defined By The Convictions They Hold.

I Am Mindful Not Only Of Preserving Executive Powers For Myself, But For Predecessors As Well.

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I'm Going To Spend A Lot Of Time On Social Security. I Enjoy It. I Enjoy Taking On The Issue. I Guess, It's The Mother In Me.

"americans Do Not Presume To Equate God's Purposes With Any Purpose Of Our Own...."[prayer] Teaches Us To Trust, To Accept That God's Plan Unfolds In His Time, Not Our Own.

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

I Worry About A Culture That Devalues Life And Believe As Your President I Have An Important Obligation To Foster And Encourage Respect For Life In America And Throughout The World.

As You Know, We Don't Have Relationships With Iran. I Mean, That's - Ever Since The Late '70s, We Have No Contacts With Them, And We've Totally Sanctioned Them. In Other Words, There's No Sanctions - You Can't - We're Out Of Sanctions.

Initiative And Referendum Make Government More Responsive To Its Citizens, Neutralize The Power Of The Special Interests And Stimulate Public Involvement In State Issues.

I Repeat To You-my Own View Is, Is That If A State-if People Decide To-what They Do In The Privacy Of Their House, Consenting Adults Should Be Able To Do. This Is America. It's A Free Society, But It Doesn't Mean We Have To Redefine Traditional Marriage.

I Pray Daily, And I Pray In All Kinds Of Places. I Mean, I Pray In Bed, I Pray In The Oval Office. I Pray A Lot. And Just Different As The Spirit Moves Me. And Faith Is An Integral Part Of My Life.

Being A Father And Trying To Love My Daughters With Unconditional Love - Those Were All Good Decisions.

Unconditional Love

We Will Be Changing The Regime Of Iraq For The Good Of The Iraqi People.

Children And Unborn Children Should Be Protected By Law And Welcomed Into Life.

I Would Like To Remembered As President As Somebody Who Did Not Compromise Principles In Order To Try To Be Loved Or Liked.

Will You Be A Spectator Or A Citizen? To Make A Difference In This World, You Must Be Involved.

Making A Difference

One Of The Things That I Will Have Ended My Public Service Time With Is A Group Of Friends, A Lot Of Friends. And I Want To Stay In Touch With Them And There's No Better Way To Communicate With Them Than Through Email.

Lots Of Friends

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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When A Drug Comes In From Canada, I Wanna Make Sure It Cures Ya, Not Kill Ya... I've Got An Obligation To Make Sure Our Government Does Everything We Can To Protect You. And One - My Worry Is That It Looks Like It's From Canada, And It Might Be From A Third World.

This Is My Maiden Voyage. My First Speech Since I Was The President Of The United States And I Couldn't Think Of A Better Place To Give It Than Calgary, Canada.

I Think We Ought To Raise The Age At Which Juveniles Can Have A Gun.

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