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You Have To Be Optimistic About Golf. I Mean It's Physically Demanding, Particularly If You're On One Leg. But It's Psychologically Demanding Regardless Of Your Physical Infirmities. I Mean, It's A Tough Sport. You've Got To Be Disciplined And Optimistic. And If You Have A Bad Hole, You've Got To Be Optimistic That You'll Do Well On The Next Hole.

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George W. Bush

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You Have To Be Optimistic About Golf. I Mean It's Physically Demanding, Particularly If You're On One Leg. But It's Psychologically Demanding Regardless Of Your Physical Infirmities. I Mean, It's A Tough Sport. You've Got To Be Disciplined And Optimistic. And If You Have A Bad Hole, You've Got To Be Optimistic That You'll Do Well On The Next Hole.

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

Well, I Think The Most Realistic Ways To Keep Them [saddam Hussien & Slobadon Milisevic] Isolated In The World Of Public Opinion And To Work With Our Alliance Is To Keep Them Isolated. I'm Just As Frustrated As Many Americans Are That Saddam Hussein Still Lives. I Think We Ought To Keep The Pressure On Him. I Will Tell You This: If We Catch Him Developing Weapons Of Mass Destruction In Any Way, Shape Or Form, I'll Deal With That In A Way That He Won't Like.

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No One Wants To Be A Polarizer, But On The Other Hand, If You Think You're Doing Right And You Believe The Decisions You Make Will Lead To A Better Tomorrow, Then They're Worthy Of Defense.

I Confirmed To The Prime Minister That We Appreciate Our Friendship.

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Whether We Bring Our Enemies To Justice Or Bring Justice To Our Enemies, Justice Will Be Done.

I Encourage Employers To Permit Their Workers Time Off During The Lunch Hour To Attend The Noontime Services To Pray For Our Land.

I Want Our Enemies To Understand That Don't Think That Their Violent Acts Are Going To Cause This President To Leave Before The Job Is Done. And I Want Our Troops To Understand We Respect Them And That The Sacrifices They Make Are Noble And Necessary For Peace.

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

And Uh, So, I'm Running For A Reason. I'm Answering This Question Here And The Answer Is, You Cannot Lead America To A Positive Tomorrow With Revenge On One's Mind. Revenge Is So Incredibly Negative. And So To Answer Your Question, I'm Going To Win Because People Sense My Heart, Know My Sense Of Optimism And Know Where I Want To Lead The Country. And I Tease People By Saying, "a Leader, You Can't Say, Follow Me The World Is Going To Be Worse." I'm An Optimistic Person. I'm An Inherently Content Person.

If You're Sick And Tired Of The Politics Of Cynicism And Polls And Principles, Come And Join This Campaign.

I Worry About Protectionists, Which Is Another Way Of Saying Less Competition, Less Trade Around The World. And I View Those As Twins Of Negativity.

You've Just Got To Do What You Think Is Right, And Just Make The Decisions Based Upon Noble Causes. And A Noble Cause Is Peace And Security And Freedom.

Security And Freedom

Unfairly But Truthfully, Our Party Has Been Tagged As Being Against Things. Anti-immigrant, For Example. And Were Not A Party Of Anti-immigrants. Quite The Opposite. Were A Party That Welcomes People.

I Think There Is Some Methodology In My Travels.

From The Beginning, I Said That Israel, One, Has A Right To Defend Herself, But Israel Ought To Be Cautious About How She Defends Herself. Israel's A Democratically Elected Government. They Make Decisions On Their Own Sovereignty. It's Their Decision-making That Is What Leads To The Tactics They Chose.

I Read The Newspaper.

I Believe The Best Way To Help Our Small Businesses Is Not Only Through Small-business Loans, Which We Have Increased Since I've Been The President Of The United States, But To Unbundle Government Contracts So People Have A Chance To Be Able To Bid And Receive A Contract To Help Get Their Business Going.

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.

I Think War Is A Dangerous Place.

The Desire For Freedom Resides In Every Human Heart. And That Desire Cannot Be Contained Forever By Prison Walls, Or Martial Laws, Or Secret Police. Over Time, And Across The Earth, Freedom Will Find A Way.

Russia's Most Precious Resource Is The Brain Power Of This Country. And You've Got A Lot Of It. It's Going To Take A Lot Of Brains In Russia To Create A Drain.

The Administration Ill Bring Is A Group Of Men And Women Who Are Focused On Whats Best For America, Honest Men And Women, Decent Men And Women, Women Who Will See Service To Our Country As A Great Privilege And Who Will Not Stain The House.

Just Remember It's The Birds That's Supposed To Suffer, Not The Hunter.

I've Changed My Style Somewhat, As You Know. I'm Less - I Pontificate Less, Although It May Be Hard To Tell It From This Show. And I'm More Interacting With People.

I Mean, These Good Folks Are Revolutionizing How Businesses Conduct Their Business. And, Like Them, I Am Very Optimistic About Our Position In The World And About Its Influence On The United States. We're Concerned About The Short-term Economic News, But Long-term I'm Optimistic. And So, I Hope Investors, You Know - Secondly, I Hope Investors Hold Investments For Periods Of Time - That I've Always Found The Best Investments Are Those That You Salt Away Based On Economics.

Some Have Argued That Confronting The Threat From Iraq Could Detract From The War Against Terror. To The Contrary, Confronting The Threat Posed By Iraq Is Crucial To Winning The War On Terror.

Anyway, I'm So Thankful, And So Gracious - I'm Gracious That My Brother Jeb Is Concerned About The Hemisphere As Well.

Think About That. Two Hundred And Eighty-five New Or Expanded Programs, $2 Trillion More In New Spending, And Not One New Bureaucrat To File Out The Forms Or Answer The Phones?

Nothing Can Be Further Than The Truth.

[should] Iraq Acquire Fissile Material, It Would Be Able To Build A Nuclear Weapon Within A Year.

There Is No Telling How Many Wars It Will Take To Secure Freedom In The Homeland.

We Want More People Owning Things In This Country. Let Me Put It To You Bluntly: In A Changing World, We Want More People To Have Control Over Your Own Life.

The Agenda Of The Roadblock Is The Philosophy Of The Stop Sign.

In This Global War Against Extremists Who Use Murder As A Weapon, Iraq Is Now The Central Front.

Through My Faith-based And Community Initiative, My Administration Continues To Encourage The Essential Work Of Faith-based And Community Organizations. Governments Can And Should Support Effective Social Services, Including Those Provided By Religious People And Organizations. When Government Gives That Support, It Is Important That Faith-based Institutions Not Be Forced To Change Their Religious Character.

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

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

Faith Gives The Assurance That Our Lives And Our History Have A Moral Design.

The Face Of Terror Is Not The True Faith Of Islam. That's Not What Islam Is All About. Islam Is Peace. These Terrorists Don't Represent Peace. They Represent Evil And War.

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

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

There's This Kind Of Almost - Kind Of A Weird Kind Of Elitism That Says Well Maybe - Maybe Certain People In Certain Parts Of The World Shouldn't Be Free; Maybe It's Best Just To Let Them Sit In These Tyrannical Societies. And Our Foreign Policy Rejects That Concept. And We Don't Accept It. And So We're Working.

I Can't Wait To Join You In The Joy Of Welcoming Neighbors Back Into Neighborhoods, And Small Businesses Up And Running, And Cutting Those Ribbons That Somebody Is Creating New Jobs.

I Have Something Else To Ask You, To Ask Every American. I Ask You To Pray For This Great Nation.

Definition Of Victory Which Is Really An Important Thing For The American People To Understand Is That We Have An Ally In The War On Terror, That Democracy Is Able To Sustain Itself And Defend Itself, And The Iraqi People Feel That The Security Forces That We've Trained Up Are Capable Of Defending Themselves Against The Violent.

I Don't Feel Like I've Got All That Much Too Important To Say On The Kind Of Big National Issues.

We Will Build Our Defenses Beyond Challenge, Lest Weakness Invite Challenge. We Will Confront Weapons Of Mass Destruction, So That A New Century Is Spared New Horrors.

Mass Destruction

Let Me Start Off By Saying That In 2000 I Said, 'vote For Me. I'm An Agent Of Change.' In 2004, I Said, 'i'm Not Interested In Change - I Want To Continue As President.' Every Candidate Has Got To Say 'change.' That's What The American People Expect.

I Believe God Did Create The World. And I Think We're Finding Out More And More And More As To How It Actually Happened.

We've Climbed The Mighty Mountain. I See The Valley Below, And It's A Valley Of Peace.

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Congratulations

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.

I Think That If You Don't Think We're In A War That You Can't Win The War.

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

When You're Writing About Something That Happened, It Helps You Transition To The Present. Ironically Enough, By Focusing On Your Presidency, It Helps You Realize That You're No Longer The President. By Reliving Moments, It Helps You Stay Focused On The Moment.

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Iran Is Obviously Part Of The Problem. They Sponsor Hezbollah. They Encourage A Radical Brand Of Islam.

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The Iraqi Regime . . . Possesses And Produces Chemical And Biological Weapons. It Is Seeking Nuclear Weapons. We Know That The Regime Has Produced Thousands Of Tons Of Chemical Agents, Including Mustard Gas, Sarin Nerve Gas, Vx Nerve Gas.

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Those Who Feel Like They Can Intimidate Our Fellow Citizens To Take Out Their Anger Don't Represent The Best Of America, They Represent The Worst Of Humankind, And They Should Be Ashamed Of That Kind Of Behavior.

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.

The Future Success Of Our Nation Depends On Our Ability To Understand The Difference Between Right And Wrong And To Have The Strength Of Character To Make The Right Choices.

[saddam] Built Up A Massive War Machine While Neglecting The Basic Needs Of His Own People.

It Is A Tough Choice. In War, People Die. But When We Refuse To Confront The Enemy, We Will Face The Enemy In New York And Washington, As We Did On 9-11. As For Responsiblity, Of Course We Stand By Our Decision To Go To War On Iraq. President Kennedy Said That Friend And Foe Alike Should Know Where America Stands.

The Principle I Believe In Is The Principle Of Protecting Our Nation. I Believe That The United States Has The Right To Attack Any Country It Views As A Threat At A Time And Place Of Its Choosing.

I Want Him [saddam Hussein]. I Want - I Want Justice. There Is An Old Poster Seen Out West. As I Recall, It Said, Wanted Dead Or Alive.

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.

One Has A Stronger Hand When There's More People Playing Your Same Cards.

I Think Once You Recognize The Unconditional Love Of An Almighty, It Tends To Put Joy In Your Heart. Which In My Case, It Did.

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I Don't Want To Be In The Press.

The Bond Between Mothers And Their Children Is One Defined By Love. As A Mother's Prayers For Her Children Are Unending, So Are The Wisdom, Grace, And Strength They Provide To Their Children.

Those Of Us Who Spent Time In The Agricultural Sector And In The Heartland, We Understand How Unfair The Death Penalty Is.

We Got A Leader In Iran Who Has Announced That He Wants To Destroy Israel. So I've Told People That If You're Interested In Avoiding World War Iii, It Seems Like You Ought To Be Interested In Preventing Them From Have The Knowledge Necessary To Make A Nuclear Weapon.

Outwit, Outlast, Outplay. It's The Tagline For The Television Show Survivor And It's Damn Near What Presidenting Is Like, Too.

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 Saw A Threat In Saddam Hussein. Members Of The United States Congress From Both Political Parties Saw That Same Threat. The United Nation's Saw The Threat. I Made The Right Decision In Getting Saddam Hussein Out Of Power.

The Union Of A Man And A Woman Is The Most Enduring Human Institution, Honored And Encouraged In All Cultures And By Every Religious Faith." ... "marriage Cannot Be Severed From Its Cultural, Religious And Natural Roots Without Weakening The Good Influence Of Society.

My Fellow Citizens, The Dangers To Our Country And The World Will Be Overcome. We Will Pass Through This Time Of Peril And Carry On The Work Of Peace. We Will Defend Our Freedom. We Will Bring Freedom To Others And We Will Prevail.

After The Chaos And Carnage Of September 11th, It Is Not Enough To Serve Our Enemies With Legal Papers.

Part Of The Faith Walk Is To Understand Your Weaknesses And Is To Constantly Try To Embetter Yourself And Get Closer To The Lord.

There's Adam Clymer, Major League Asshole From The New York 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.

This Is Still A Dangerous World. It's A World Of Madmen And Uncertainty And Potential Mental Losses.

Dangerous World

I'm Joyful In My Religious Belief.

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.

The Fingers And Toes And Beating Hearts That We Can See On An Unborn Child's Ultrasound Come With Something That We Cannot See: A Soul

We Are Getting More And More Imports From Abroad.

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.

If Iraq Fails To Fully Comply, The United States And Other Nations Will Disarm Saddam Hussein.

It Used To Be, People Were Afraid To Talk About Social Security. Now, I Think People Should Be Afraid Not To Talk About Social Security And Start Coming Up With Some Solutions.

All Who Live In Tyranny And Hopelessness Can Know: The United States Will Not Ignore Your Oppression, Or Excuse Your Oppressors. When You Stand For Your Liberty, We Will Stand With You.

I Am Committed To The First Amendment Principles Of Religious Freedom, Tolerance, And Diversity. Whether Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, Or Muslim, Americans Should Be Able To Participate In Their Constitutional Free Exercise Of Religion. I Do Not Think Witchcraft Is A Religion, And I Do Not Think It Is In Any Way Appropriate For The U.s. Military To Promote It.

A Tax Cut Is Really One Of The Anecdotes To Coming Out Of An Economic Illness.

The Message Is For Everybody Who Wears The Uniform: Get Ready. The United States Will Do What It Takes To Win This War... And This Is An Administration That Is Going To Dedicate Ourselves To Winning That War.

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.

Americans Have Always Held Firm, Because We Have Always Believed In Certain Truths. We Know That If Evil Is Not Confronted, It Gains In Strength And Audacity And Returns To Strike Us Again. We Know That When The Work Is Hard, The Proper Response Is Not Retreat, It Is Courage. And We Know That A Great Ideal Of Human Freedom Entrusted To Us In A Special Way And That The Ideal Of Liberty Is Worth Defending.

Politics Comes And Goes, But Your Principles Don't. And Everybody Wants To Be Loved -- Not Everybody. ... You Never Heard Anybody Say, 'i Want To Be Despised, I'm Running For Office.'

I Think That The Vice President Is A Person Reflecting A Half-glass-full Mentality.

All I Can Tell You Is That I Know The Enemy, Allies, And Troops Hear What I Say.

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

I Think You Can Judge From Somebody's Actions A Kind Of A Stability And Sense Of Purpose Perhaps Created By Strong Religious Roots. I Mean, There's A Certain Patience, A Certain Discipline, I Think, That Religion Helps You Achieve.

I... You Know, I... Look, After 9/11, I Vowed To Protect This Country.

Imagine A World In Which You Had Saddam Hussein, Who Had The Capacity To Make A Weapon Of Mass Destruction, Who Was Paying Suiciders To Kill Innocent Life. Imagine What The World Would Be Like With Him In Power. The Idea Is To Try To Help Change The Middle East. Part Of The Reason We Went Into Iraq Was We Thought He Had Weapons Of Mass Destruction. It Turns Out He Didn't, But He Had The Capacity To Make Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

America Is Successful Because Of The Hard Work And Creativity And Enterprise Of Our People.

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.

Painful Experiences

And I Am An Optimistic Person. I Guess If You Want To Try To Find Something To Be Pessimistic About, You Can Find It, No Matter How Hard You Look, You Know?

We Spent A Lot Of Time Talking About Africa, As We Should. Africa Is A Nation That Suffers From Incredible Disease.

Running For Governor Of Texas Against A Very Popular Governor [incumbent Ann Richards] Was Deemed To Be Risky. Everybody Thought I Would Lose. As I Put In My Book, My Mother Said, "you're Going To Lose!"

On 9-11, We Discovered That We Cannot Escape From The World. To Me Personally, This Was A Life-changing Experience, And I Realized, As Did All Americans, In A Way That Is Impossible To Describe, That We Were Not Protected By The Two Oceans. It Was Necessary To Eliminate Threats Before They Showed Up On Our Doorstep. I Agree That We Should Not Be Getting Caught Up In Far Away Wars. But I Believe Iraq Was Central To Our War On Terrorism.

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.

For A Century And A Half Now, America And Japan Have Formed One Of The Great And Enduring Alliances Of Modern Times.

Freeing People From Oppression And Despair Is Eternally Right.

Terrorists Like Bin Laden Are Serious About Mass Murder - And All Of Us Must Take Their Declared Intentions Seriously. They Seek To Impose A Heartless System Of Totalitarian Control Throughout The Middle East, And Arm Themselves With Weapons Of Mass Murder. . . . Their Aim Is To Seize Power In Iraq, And Use It As A Safe Haven To Launch Attacks Against America And The World.

We've Got To Have All Those Tools. The Patriot Act Tearing Down Those Walls Between Intel And Law Enforcement Are A Necessary Part Of Protecting The Country. But, In The Long Term, The Only Way To Defeat This Terrorist Bunch Is Through The Spread Of Liberty And Freedom. And That's A Big Challenge. I Understand It's A Challenge. It Requires Commitment And Patience And Persistence.

My Relationship With God Through Christ Has Given Me Meaning And Direction. My Faith Has Made A Big Difference In My Personal Life, And My Public Life As Well. I Make Personal Decisions Every Day. Some Are Easy, And Some Aren't So Easy. I Have Worries Just Like You Do. And I Pray. I Pray For Guidance. I Pray For Patience. I Firmly Believe In The Power Of Intercessory Prayer; And I Know That I Could Not Do My Job Without It.

Today At Pearl Harbor, Veterans Are Gathering To Pay Tribute To The Young Men They Remember Who Never Escaped The Sunken Ships. And Over The Years, Some Pearl Harbor Veterans Have Made A Last Request. They Ask That Their Ashes Be Brought Down And Placed Inside The Uss Arizona. After The Long Lives Given Them, They Wanted To Rest Besides The Best Men They Ever Knew. Such Loyalty And Love Remain The Greatest Strength Of The United States Navy.

America Has Never Been United By Blood Or Birth Or Soil. We Are Bound By Ideals That Move Us Beyond Our Backgrounds, Lift Us Above Our Interests And Teach Us What It Means To Be Citizens.

I'm Telling America We Need To Not Discriminate Against Faith-based Programs. We Need To Welcome Them So Our Society Is More Wholesome, More Welcoming, And More Hopeful For Every Single Citizen.

My Post-presidency Is Evolving.

There Are A Lot Of Tactical Decisions That, If I Could Have Done Them Over, I Would Have.

I Can Hear You, The Rest Of The World Can Hear You And The People Who Knocked These Buildings Down Will Hear All Of Us Soon.

There's Also Consumer Debt, The Credit Card Debt That Burdens Many Of The Working Families In America. Yes, We Talk About National Debt, And We're Paying A Lot Down. But You're Fixing To Hear Me Tell You Part Of The Remedy For People Who Have Got A Lot Of Credit Card Debt Is To Make Sure People Get Some Of Their Own Money Back.

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

I Served. And Now It's Time For The New Man To Serve. I Have Zero Desire To Be In The Limelight.

I'm Asking Congress To Pass My Zero Down Payment Initiative. We Should Remove The 3 Percent Down Payment Rule For First Time Home Buyers With Fha-insured Mortgages.

People Sometimes Have To Correct My English. I Knew I Had A Problem When Arnold Schwarzenegger Started Doing It.

The Question Is Who Ought To Make That Decision, The Congress Or The Commanders? And As You Know, My Position Is Clear. I'm A Commander Guy.

Sometimes It Can Seem That History Is Turning In A Wide Arc, Toward An Unknown Shore. Yet The Destination Of History Is Determined By Human Action, And Every Great Movement Of History Comes To A Point Of Choosing.

Culture Of Life Is Really Important For A Country To Have If It's Going To Be A Hospitable Society.

Ours Is A War Not Against A Religion, Not Against The Muslim Faith. But Ours Is A War Against Individuals Who Absolutely Hate What America Stands For, And Hate The Freedom Of The Czech Republic. And Therefore, We Must Work Together To Defend Ourselves. And By Remaining Strong And United And Tough, We'll Prevail.

Renewing The Promise Of America Begins With Upholding The Dignity Of Human Life.

In The Past When Money Was Given From Government To Government, There Was No Accountability, Especially The World Bank Loans. Nobody Was Held Accountable For The Misuse Of World Bank Loans. That Is Why It Is Important To Channel Some Of The Money Through Civil Society Groups.

"statesman" Gives The Impression That Every Time A Major Issue Comes Up, I'll Be Popping Off. And That's Not What's Going To Happen.

I Have Zero Desire, Just So You Know, To Be In The Limelight. I Don't Think It's Good For The Country To Have A Former President Criticize His Successor. You're Not Going To See Me Giving My Opinions In The Public Arena, Until I Start Selling My Book. I'm Going To Emerge Then Submerge.

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

I Will Have A Foreign-handed Foreign Policy.

As Gerhard Schröder Said In The Oval Office, A Democratic Iraq Is Important Not Only To Germany, But To Europe, And He's Right.

This Will Not Be A Campaign Of Half Measures, And We Will Accept No Outcome Except Victory.

I Ended Up Being The 43rd President Of The United States. It Was An Awesome Experience, And I'm Glad I Did It.

ariel Sharon Is A Man Of Courage And A Man Of Peace.

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?

For Too Long, Many Nations, Including My Own, Tolerated, Even Excused, Oppression In The Middle East In The Name Of Stability. Oppression Became Common, But Stability Never Arrived. We Must Take A Different Approach. We Must Help The Reformers Of The Middle East As They Work For Freedom, And Strive To Build A Community Of Peaceful, Democratic Nations.

I'm Going To Spend A Lot Of Time Trying To Explain As Best I Can Why It's Important For Us To Succeed In Iraq. I'm Going To Do What I Think Is Right, And If, You Know, If People Don't Like Me For It, That's Just The Way It Is.

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

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

[islam] Inspires Countless Individuals To Lead Lives Of Honesty, Integrity, And Morality.

I Told You I'm Not Going To Criticize My Successor. I'll Just Tell You That There Are People At Gitmo That Will Kill American People At A Drop Of A Hat And I Don't Believe That Persuasion Isn't Going To Work. Therapy Isn't Going To Cause Terrorists To Change Their Mind.

We Will Make Sure Our Troops Have All That Is Necessary To Complete Their Missions. That's Why I Went To The Congress Last September And Proposed Fundamental - Supplemental Funding, Which Is Money For Armor And Body Parts And Ammunition And Fuel...

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

If I'm The President, We're Going To Have Emergency-room Care, We're Going To Have Gag Orders.

I Will Always Believe Our Nation's Best Days Lie Ahead.

It Would Be Helpful If We Opened Up Anwr. I Think It's A Mistake Not To. And I Would Urge You All To Travel Up There And Take A Look At It, And You Can Make The Determination As To How Beautiful That Country Is.

Running For President Was A Good Decision.

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

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

Our Two Nations Both Faced Great Challenges When They Were Founded, And Our Two Nations Have Both Relied On The Same Principles To Help Us Succeed. We've Built Strong Democracies To Protect The Freedoms Given To Us By An Almighty God. We've Welcomed Immigrants, Who Have Helped Us Thrive. We've Built Prosperous Economies By Rewarding Innovation And Risk-taking And Trade. And We've Built An Enduring Alliance To Confront Terrorists And Tyrants.

You Are Either With Us Or You Are Against Us In The Fight Against Terror.

I Knew It Might Put Him In An Awkward Position That We Had A Discussion Before Finality Has Finally Happened In This Presidential Race.

No One Was More Shocked Or Angry Than I Was When We Didn't Find The Weapons. I Had A Sickening Feeling Every Time I Thought About It. I Still Do.

I Simply Said That I Would Do Everything To Help Taiwan To Defend Itself.

Americans To Bow Our Heads In Humility Before Our Heavenly Father, A God Who Calls Us Not To Judge Our Neighbors, But To Love Them, To Ask His Guidance Upon Our Nation And Its Leaders In Every Level Of Government.

Every American Should Have Absolute Control Over His Or Her Personal Information

Islam Is A Vibrant Faith. Millions Of Our Fellow Citizens Are Muslim. We Respect The Faith. We Honor Its Traditions. Our Enemy Does Not. Our Enemy Doesn't Follow The Great Traditions Of Islam. They've Hijacked A Great Religion.

I Do Remain Confident In Linda. She'll Make A Fine Labor Secretary. From What I've Read In The Press Accounts, She's Perfectly Qualified.

You Have To Be Optimistic About Golf. I Mean It's Physically Demanding, Particularly If You're On One Leg. But It's Psychologically Demanding Regardless Of Your Physical Infirmities. I Mean, It's A Tough Sport. You've Got To Be Disciplined And Optimistic. And If You Have A Bad Hole, You've Got To Be Optimistic That You'll Do Well On The Next Hole.

The Press In America Has Never Been Stronger And Never Been Freer And Never Been More Vibrant, Sometimes To My Chagrin, And A Lot Of Times To My Delight.

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.

Terrorism Against Our Nation Will Not Stand.

Those Who Enter The Country Illegally Violate The Law.

Border Relations Between Canada And Mexico Have Never Been Better.

I Frankly Felt Like The Reception We Received On The Way In From The Airport Was Very Warm And Hospitable. And I Want To Thank The Canadian People Who Came Out To Wave -- With All Five Fingers -- For Their Hospitality.

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

I Don't Worry About Long-term History. I Won't Be Around To Read It.

Democracies Don't War; Democracies Are Peaceful Countries.

Neither In French Nor In English Nor In Mexican.

I Believe That People Want To Be Free. And That We Face An Enemy That Murders Innocent People To Try To Shake Our Psychology To Get Us To Leave.

America Stands For Liberty, For The Pursuit Of Happiness And For The Unalienable Right For Life. This Right To Life Cannot Be Granted Or Denied By Government Because It Does Not Come From Government, It Comes From The Creator Of Life.

Pursuit Of Happiness

In The Corporate World, Sometimes Things Aren`t Exactly Black And White When It Comes To Accounting Procedures.

Black And White

We Are Bound By Ideals That Teach Us What It Means To Be Citizens. Every Child Must Be Taught These Ideals. Every Citizen Must Uphold Them.... I Ask You To Be Citizens. Citizens, Not Spectators. Citizens, Not Subjects. Responsible Citizens Building Communities Of Service And A Nation Of Character.

Now The Taliban Will Pay A Price.

The Suicide Bombings Have Increased. There's Too Many Of Them.

It's Time To Restore Honor And Dignity To The White House.

I'll Be Long Gone Before Some Smart Person Ever Figures Out What Happened Inside This Oval Office.

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

Catholic Schools Carry Out A Great Mission, To Serve God By Building Knowledge And Character... By Teaching The Word Of God, You Prepare Your Students To Follow A Path Of Virtue.

If You Don't Feel Something Strongly You're Not Going To Achieve.

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.

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

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.

I Don't Think It's Good For America To Have A Former President Undermine A Current President.

We Have A Serious Problem: America Is Addicted To Oil... The Best Way To Break This Addiction Is Through Technology.

My Faith Plays A Big Part In My Life. And When I Was Answering That Question What I Was Really Saying To The Person Was That I Pray A Lot. And I Do. And My Faith Is A Very, It's Very Personal. I Pray For Strength. I Pray For Wisdom. I Pray For Our Troops In Harm's Way. I Pray For My Family. I Pray For My Little Girls.

The Pentagon Is Constantly Adjusting Tactics Because They Have The Flexibility From The White House To Do So. The Strategy Is To Help The Iraqi People Achieve Their Objectives And Their Dreams, Which Is A Democratic Society. That's The Strategy. The Tactics It's Important That We Stay There And Get It Done; Or We Leave. We're Not Leaving So Long As I'm The President. That Would Be A Huge Mistake.

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