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When It Comes To The Common Rights And Needs Of Men And Women, There Is No Clash Of Civilizations. The Requirements Of Freedom Apply Fully To Africa And Latin America And The Entire Islamic World. The Peoples Of The Islamic Nations Want And Deserve The Same Freedoms And Opportunities As People In Every Nation. And Their Governments Should Listen To Their Hopes.

-George W. Bush

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When It Comes To The Common Rights And Needs Of Men And Women, There Is No Clash Of Civilizations. The Requirements Of Freedom Apply Fully To Africa And Latin America And The Entire Islamic World. The Peoples Of The Islamic Nations Want And Deserve The Same Freedoms And Opportunities As People In Every Nation. And Their Governments Should Listen To Their Hopes.

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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.

Foreign Fighters Are Travelling Into Iraq To Make It A Front Line In The War On Terror. And I Would Rather Defeat Them There Than Face Them In Our Own Country.

All Of Us In America Want There To Be Fairness When It Comes To Justice.

We've Got A Lot Of Relations With Countries In Our Neighborhood.

I've Got God's Shoulder To Cry On. And I Cry A Lot. I Do A Lot Of Crying In This Job. I'll Bet I've Shed More Tears Than You Can Count, As President.

I Don't Think You Can Run For President Or Be President Unless You're A Busy Person.

If I Answer Questions Every Time You Ask One, Expectations Would Be High. And As You Know, I Like To Keep Expectations Low.

Some Of The Comments That Have Been Uttered About Islam Do Not Reflect The Sentiments Of My Government Or The Sentiments Of Most Americans. Islam, As Practiced By The Vast Majority Of People, Is A Peaceful Religion, A Religion That Respects Others. Ours Is A Country Based Upon Tolerance And We Welcome People Of All Faiths In America.

I Just Remember, All I'm Doing Is Remembering When I Was A Kid I Remember That They Used To Put Out There In The Old West, A Wanted Poster. It Said: "wanted, Dead Or Alive." All I Want And America Wants Him Brought To Justice. That's What We Want.

What I Am Against Is Quotas. I Am Against Hard Quotas, Quotas They Basically Delineate Based Upon Whatever. However They Delineate, Quotas, I Think Vulcanize Society. So I Don't Know How That Fits Into What Everybody Else Is Saying, Their Relative Positions, But That's My Position.

Saddam Hussein Was A Unique Threat. And The World Is Better Off Without Him In Power.

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.

And One Of The Challenges, Of Course, Is To Convince People That Muslims Would Like To Be Free, That There's Other People Other Than People In Britain And America That Would Like To Be Free In The World.

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I'm Telling You There's An Enemy That Would Like To Attack America, Americans, Again. There Just Is. That's The Reality Of The World. And I Wish Him All The Very Best.

I Believe The World Would Have Been A Lot Worse Off If Saddam [hussein] Were In Power Today.

We Will Stay The Course Until The Job Is Done, Steve. And The Temptation Is To Try To Get The President Or Somebody To Put A Timetable On The Definition Of Getting The Job Done. We're Just Going To Stay The Course.

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