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We Salute Our Veterans Of Pearl Harbor And World War Ii, Whose Sacrifices Saved Democracy During A Dark Hour. In Their Memory, A New Generation Of Our Armed Forces Goes Forward Against New Enemies In A New Era. Once Again, We Pledge To Defend Freedom, Secure Our Homeland, And Advance Peace Around The World. Americans Have Been Tested Before, And Our Nation Will Triumph Again.

-George W. Bush

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We Salute Our Veterans

George W. Bush

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We Salute Our Veterans Of Pearl Harbor And World War Ii, Whose Sacrifices Saved Democracy During A Dark Hour. In Their Memory, A New Generation Of Our Armed Forces Goes Forward Against New Enemies In A New Era. Once Again, We Pledge To Defend Freedom, Secure Our Homeland, And Advance Peace Around The World. Americans Have Been Tested Before, And Our Nation Will Triumph Again.

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

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And After September The 11th, The United States Congress Also Granted Me Additional Authority To Use Military Force Against Al Qaeda. . . .

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A Lot Of People In The Usa Probably Don't Understand How Important They Are To The Mortgage Markets. And It's Really Important For People To Have Confidence In The Mortgage Markets And That There Be Stability In The Mortgage Markets.

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

Sometimes I'm Frustrated. Rarely Surprised. Sometimes I'm Happy, You Know. But War Is Not A Time Of Joy.

You've Got To Be Pretty Hopeless To Become A Suicide Bomber.

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[strong Marriage] Starts With Being Married To A Remarkable Person. And I Am. I Jokingly Say That I Stood Up In Front Of A Crowd Once And Said, "laura's The Greatest First Lady Ever," And Then Realized My Mother Was In The Audience.

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I Had To Abandon Free Market Principles In Order To Save The Free Market System.

In Spite Of Conflicting Signals - And In Spite Of A Popular Culture That Sometimes Puts Down Their Innocence - Most Of Our Kids Are Good Kids. Large Numbers Do Volunteer Work. Nearly All Believe In God, And Most Practice Their Faith. Teen Pregnancy And Violence Are Actually Going Down. Across America, Under A Program Called True Love Waits, Nearly A Million Teens Have Pledged Themselves To Abstain From Sex Until Marriage.

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

We're Spending Money On Clean Coal Technology. Do You Realize We've Got 250 Million Years Of Coal?

I Believe We Owe It To Our Children And Grandchildren To Stay Engaged And To Help Spread Liberty And To Help Reformers.

Reinvention Means You're Kind Of Re-creating Somebody. Well, I'm The Same Person, In Terms Of Values. My Priorities - My Faith, My Family, My Friends, The Values Of Personal Responsibility And Universality Of Freedom, And "to Whom Much Is Given, Much Is Required" - Haven't Changed [since Presidency].

Using Tax Payers' Money To Provide Liquidity To Wall Street So That The Country Wouldn't Head Into A Depression Was The Right Decision, In My Judgment.

This Notion That The United States Is Getting Ready To Attack Iran Is Simply Ridiculous. And Having Said That, All Options Are On The Table

It's Been A Hard Lesson For Me , But Contrary Quite Frankly To What Is A Common Practice In Politics, I Can Tell From My Own Experience, It Is Better To Stay Away From Personalities.

It Is Important That Social, Political, And Religious Freedoms Grow In China. A Society Which Recognizes Religious Freedom Is A Society Which Will Recognize Political Freedom As Well.

My Meetings With [ahmed Chalabi] Were Very Brief. I Mean, I Think I Met With Him At The State Of The Union And Just Kind Of Working Through The Rope Line, And He Might Have Come With A Group Of Leaders. But I Haven't Had Any Extensive Conversations With Him.

I Talked To My Little Brother, Jeb - I Haven't Told This To Many People. But He's The Governor Of - I Shouldn't Call Him My Little Brother - My Brother, Jeb, The Great Governor Of Texas.

Bill Clinton And I Are Friends; We See Each Other On The Speaking Circuit. He Likes To Be Visible. I Don't. And I Draw No Judgment Either Way.

What Texans Can Dream, Texans Can Do.

People Who Plan Their Life When They're 18 Years Old And Say, "this Is My Life Plan," Would Generally Be Surprised And Maybe Disappointed.

My Mother Always Said, 'when You're Eating Pretzels, Chew Before You Swallow'. Always Listen To Your Mother.

In Times Of War And In Hours Of Crisis, Senator Kerry Has Turned His Back On 'pay Any Price' And 'bear Any Burden', And He's Replaced Those Commitments With 'wait And See' And 'cut And Run'.

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.

I Want To Remind You Right Quick What This Country Has Been Through, And The Challenges This Economy Had Faced Over The Last Three Years. First, We Went Through A Recession. That Means We Were Going Backwards.

The Rich Hire Lawyers And Accountants For A Reason - To Pass The Tax Bill On To You.

I Feel A Sense Of Obligation To Our Troops And Their Families Because Of The Decisions That I Made. So I'm Involved With Veterans.

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

My Advice To Seniors - And I Consider Myself One - Is To First And Foremost Take Care Of Your Body. Secondly, Find Something Where You Could Say, "i'm Helping Somebody Else." And It May Be Just Helping Raise A Grandkid. Or Teaching A Child To Read - One Child To Read.

...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.

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.

Never Paint Your Wife Or Your Mother.

You Know, I'm The President During This Period Of Time, But I Think When The History Of This Period Is Written, People Will Realize A Lot Of The Decisions That Were Made On Wall Street Took Place Over A Decade Or So, Before I Arrived In President, During I Arrived In President.

How Do You Measure Whether Or Not A Strategy Of Economic Growth That Is Articulated By A Very Smart, Capable Economist Actually Yields Growth? You Can't. But You Can Influence.

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.

I Believe Law-abiding Citizens Ought To Be Able To Own A Gun. I Believe In Background Checks At Gun Shows Or Anywhere To Make Sure That Guns Don't Get In The Hands Of People That Shouldn't Have Them.

If You're A Single Mother With Two Children, Which Is The Toughest Job In America As Far As I'm Concerned, And You're Working Hard To Put Food On Your Family.

Let's Make Sure That There Is Certainty During Uncertain Times In Our Economy.

Uncertain Times

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.

If You Take All The Food Aid, America Is By Far The Most Generous Country. If You Take The Direct Aid, We're Very Generous. But When You Add On Our Private Contributions - See, Our Tax System Encourages Private Citizens To Donate To Organisations That, For Example, Help The Folks In Africa. And When You Take The Combined Effort Of Us Taxpayers' Money Plus Us Citizens' Donations, We're Very Generous. And We'll Do More.

What's The Sense Of Sending $2 Million Missiles To Hit A $10 Tent That's Empty?

The Great Thing About America Is Everybody Should Vote.

They Have Miscalculated Me As A Leader.

Anyway, After We Go Out And Work Our Hearts Out, After You Go Out And Help Us Turn Out The Vote, After We've Convinced The Good Americans To Vote, And While They're At It, Pull That Old George W Lever, If I'm The One, When I Put My Hand On The Bible, When I Put My Hand On The Bible, That Day When They Swear Us In, When I Put My Hand On The Bible, I Will Swear To Not - To Uphold The Laws Of The Land.

I Don't Make Any Apologies For What I Do On The Campaign Trail.

If We're An Arrogant Nation, They'll Resent Us; If We're A Humble Nation, But Strong, They'll Welcome Us. And Our Nation Stands Alone Right Now In The World In Terms Of Power, And That's Why We've Got To Be Humble, And Yet Project Strength In A Way That Promotes Freedom.

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

Where We Find Young Democracies, We Need To Help Them. Where We Find The Enemy, We Need To Fight Them. And That's Exactly The Bush Policy.

You Cannot Solve A Problem Unless You Diagnose The Problem.

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

To Date, We've Arrested Or Otherwise Dealt With Many Key Commanders Of Al Qaeda... All Told, More Than 3,000 Suspected Terrorists Have Been Arrested In Many Countries. Many Others Have Met A Different Fate. Let's Put It This Way - They Are No Longer A Problem To The United States And Our Friends And Allies.

Compassionate Conservative Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations.

Liberty Can Change Habits.

There's A Fundamental Difference Between Many Of The Democrats And My Party. And That Is: They Want To Leave Before The Job Is Completed In Iraq. Again, I Repeat: These Are Decent People. They're Just As American As I Am. I Just Happen To Strongly Disagree With Them. And It's Very Important For The American People To Understand The Consequences Of Leaving Iraq Before The Job Is Done. This Is A Global War On Terror.

Big Texas (nolan Ryan) Is Here. The Reason I Like To Keep Nolan Around Is He Is A Reminder That When We Got Done With The Sammy Sosa Trade, There Was Still Some Talent On The Rangers.

Mr. Vice President, In All Due Respect, It Is-i'm Not Sure 80 Percent Of The People Get The Death Tax. I Know This: 100 Percent Will Get It If I'm The President.

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