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You Know, One Day You're Being Briefed On World Affairs And Asked To Make Decisions, And The Next, You're In Crawford, Texas ... And The Biggest Decision Is When Do You Go Mountain Bike Riding.

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George W. Bush

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You Know, One Day You're Being Briefed On World Affairs And Asked To Make Decisions, And The Next, You're In Crawford, Texas ... And The Biggest Decision Is When Do You Go Mountain Bike Riding.

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American Foreign Policy Must Be More Than The Management Of Crisis. It Must Have A Great And Guiding Goal: To Turn This Time Of American Influence Into Generations Of Democratic Peace.

We Don't Want Washington Democrats Running The House Of Representatives.

There Has Been Some Conditionalities In The Sense That This Debt Relief Is Supposed To Release Resources To Be Devoted To Education, Healthcare And Infrastructure, For Example. In The Past African Government Made Such Promises But They Never Carried Them Out.

Some Of You In This Room Support Higher Taxes. I Welcome Your Enthusiasm And Am Glad To Report That The Irs Takes Both Money Orders And Checks.

The Enemy Understands A Free Iraq Will Be A Major Defeat In Their Ideology Of Hatred. That's Why They're Fighting So Vociferously.

People Have Access To Health Care In America. After All, You Just Go To An Emergency Room.

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The Question Is: How Do We Succeed In Iraq? And You Don't Succeed By Leaving Before The Mission Is Complete, Like Some In This Political Process Are Suggesting.

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If You Find A Neighbor In Need, You're Responsible For Serving That Neighbor In Need, You're Responsible For Loving A Neighbor Just Like You'd Like To Love Yourself.

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

God Is Not On The Side Of Any Nation, Yet We Know He Is On The Side Of Justice... Our Finest Moments Have Come When We Faithfully Served The Cause Of Justice For Our Own Citizens, And For The People Of Other Lands.

Our Enemies Believed America Was Weak And Materialistic, That We Would Splinter In Fear And Selfishness. They Were As Wrong As They Are Evil.

Theres A Lot Of Blowhards In The Political Process, You Know, A Lot Of Hot-air Artists, People Who Have Got Something Fancy To Say.

A Good Run Adds A Little Bounce To My Step. I Get A Certain Amount Of Self-esteem From It.

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I Talked About The Human Suffering In Iraq. And I Also Saw The Need To Advance A Freedom Agenda. Imagine A World In Which Saddam Hussein Was There, Stirring Up Even More Trouble In A Part Of The World That Had So Much Resentment And So Much Hatred That People Came And Killed 3,000 Of Our Citizens. I've Heard This Theory About Everything Was Just Fine Until We Arrived And The Stir-up-the-hornet's- Nest Theory. It Just Doesn't Hold Water, As Far As I'm Concerned. The Terrorists Attacked Us And Killed 3,000 Of Our Citizens Before We Started The Freedom Agenda In The Middle East.

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I Call My Philosophy And Approach Compassionate Conservatism. It Is Compassionate To Actively Help Our Fellow Citizens In Need. It Is Conservative To Insist On Responsibility And Results. And With This Hopeful Approach, We Will Make A Real Difference In People's Lives.

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The Momentum Of Freedom In Our World Is Unmistakable - And It Is Not Carried Forward By Our Power Alone. We Can Trust In That Greater Power Who Guides The Unfolding Of The Years. And In All That Is To Come, We Can Know That His Purposes Are Just And True.

Ages Of Experience Have Taught Us That The Commitment Of A Husband And A Wife To Love And To Serve One Another Promotes The Welfare Of Children And The Stability Of Society. Marriage Cannot Be Cut Off From Its Cultural, Religious, And Natural Roots Without Weakening This Good Influence On Society. Government, By Recognizing And Protecting Marriage, Serves The Interests Of All.

No Insignificant Person Was Ever Born.

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I Would Guess, I Would Surmise That Some Of The More Spectacular Bombings Are Done By Al Qaeda Suiciders.

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Our Founding Fathers Understood That Our Country Would Survive And Flourish If Our Nation Was Committed To Good Character And An Unyielding Dedication To Liberty And Justice For All.

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Somebody Accused Us Of Hiring Him And Putting Him There. He Was A Classic.

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America Must Not Ignore The Threat Gathering Against Us. Facing Clear Evidence Of Peril, We Cannot Wait For The Final Proof, The Smoking Gun That Could Come In The Form Of A Mushroom Cloud.

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.

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

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.

America's Making A Long-term Commitment To Help The People Of Lebanon Because We Believe Every Person Deserves To Live In A Free, Open Society That Respects The Rights Of All.

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The United States Is A Christian Nation Founded Upon Christian Principles And Beliefs.

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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

I Think War Is A Dangerous Place.

What We Republicans Should Stand For Is Growth In The Economy. We Ought To Make The Pie Higher.

Now The Taliban Will Pay A Price.

Im A Strong Proponent Of The Restoration Of The Wetlands, For A Lot Of Reasons. Theres A Practical Reason, Though, When It Comes To Hurricanes: The Stronger The Wetlands, The More Likely The Damage Of The Hurricane.

The Important Question Is, How Many Hands Have I Shaked?

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Reading Is The Basics For All Learning.

And, Again, I Don't Know Where He [osama Bin Laden] Is. I — I'll Repeat What I Said. I Truly Am Not That Concerned About Him.

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In Every Instance When My Administration Sees A Responsibility To Help People, We Will Look First To Faith-based Institutions, To Charities And To Community Groups That Have Shown Their Ability To Save And Change Lives.

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.

People Make Suggestions On What To Say All The Time... Trust Me.

We Ought To Make The Pie Higher.

We Must Show New Energy In Fighting Back An Old Evil. Nearly Two Centuries After The Abolition Of The Transatlantic Slave Trade, And More Than A Century After Slavery Was Officially Ended In Its Last Strongholds, The Trade In Human Beings For Any Purpose Must Not Be Allowed To Thrive In Our Time.

With A New National Commitment, Our Scientists And Engineers Will Overcome Obstacles To Taking These [hydrogen Fuel Cell] Cars From Laboratory To Showroom, So That The First Car Driven By A Child Born Today Could Be Powered By Hydrogen, And Pollution-free.

The Decisions We Make In Washington Have A Direct Impact On The People In Our Country, Obviously.

Decisions We Make

About 14 Percent Of Our Nation's Civilian Workforce Is Foreign-born.

I Think It's Important To Bring Somebody From Outside The System, The Judicial System, Somebody That Hasn't Been On The Bench And, Therefore, There's Not A Lot Of Opinions For People To Look At.

As Hope Kindles Hope, Millions More Will Find It. By Our Efforts, We Have Lit A Fire As Well - A Fire In The Minds Of Men. It Warms Those Who Feel Its Power, It Burns Those Who Fight Its Progress, And One Day This Untamed Fire Of Freedom Will Reach The Darkest Corners Of Our World.

The Nature Of The Presidency Is That Sometimes You Don't Choose Which Challenges Come To Your Desk. You Do Decide How To Respond.

We Concluded That Tomorrow Is A Moment Of Truth For The World. Many Nations Have Voiced A Commitment To Peace And Security, And Now They Must Demonstrate That Commitment To Peace And Security In The Only Effective Way: By Supporting The Immediate And Unconditional Disarmament Of Saddam Hussein.

I Don't See How We Can Allow Public Dollars To Fund Programs Where Spite And Hate Is The Core Of The Message.

This Is A World That Is Much More Uncertain Than The Past. In The Past We Were Certain, We Were Certain It Was Us Versus The Russians In The Past. We Were Certain, And Therefore We Had Huge Nuclear Arsenals Aimed At Each Other To Keep The Peace. That's What We Were Certain Of... You See, Even Though It's An Uncertain World, We're Certain Of Some Things. We're Certain That Even Though The "evil Empire" May Have Passed, Evil Still Remains.

This Young Century Will Be Liberty's Century.

Do You Have Blacks, Too?

Life Really Is A Series Of Contrasts.

We've Had No Evidence That Saddam Hussein Was Involved With The September 11th.

Other Republican Candidates May Retort To Personal Attacks And Negative Ads.

The Oval Office Is A Place Where There's Been, Obviously, A Lot Of Amazing Experiences Over A Seven-and-a-half Year Period. My Presidency Is One Where I've Had To Make Some Very Tough Decisions. I Guess Some Presidencies Are Kind Of - Were Real Smooth, There Were No Real Big Issues. Well, That's Not The Way Mine Is.

Information Is Moving - You Know, Nightly News Is One Way, Of Course, But It's Also Moving Through The Blogosphere And Through The Internets.

We Want Our Teachers To Be Trained So They Can Meet The Obligations, Their Obligations As Teachers. We Want Them To Know How To Teach The Science Of Reading. In Order To Make Sure There's Not This Kind Of Federal-federal Cufflink.

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.

For Most Of The World, There's No Greater Symbol Of America Than The Statue Of Liberty. It Has Been An Inspiration To Generations Of Immigrants. One Of These Immigrants Was A Poet-writer Named Ameen Rihani. Gazing At Her Lamp Held High, He Wondered Whether Her Sister Might Be Erected In The Lands Of His Arab Forefathers. Here Is How He Put It: "when Will You Turn Your Face Toward The East, Oh Liberty?"

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.

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

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

I Don't Particularly Like It When People Put Words In My Mouth, Either, By The Way, Unless I Say It.

Presidents, Whether Things Are Good Or Bad, Get The Blame. I Understand That.

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.

Science Is Important, But So Is Ethics, So Is Balancing Life. To Destroy Life To Save Life - It's One Of The Real Ethical Dilemmas That We Face.

I May Be The Only Person, The Only Presidential Candidate Who Never Carried The State In Which He Was Born.

Presidential Candidate

The Peaceful Transfer Of Authority Is Rare In History, Yet Common In Our Country. With A Simple Oath, We Affirm Old Traditions And Make New Beginnings.

Iran Aggressively Pursues These Weapons And Exports Terror, While An Unelected Few Repress The Iranian People's Hope For Freedom. The Iraqi Regime Has Plotted To Develop Anthrax, And Nerve Gas, And Nuclear Weapons For Over A Decade. This Is A Regime That Has Already Used Poison Gas To Murder Thousands Of Its Own Citizens - Leaving The Bodies Of Mothers Huddled Over Their Dead Children.

The Great Thing About America Is Everybody Should Vote.

If You've Got Somebody In Harm's Way, You Want The President Being -- Making Advice, Not -- Be Given Advice By The Military, And Not Making Decisions Based Upon The Latest Gallup Poll Or Focus Group.

I've Thought A Lot About What It Means To Be The President. I Also Understand An Administration Is Not One Person But An Administration Is Dedicated Citizens Who Are Called By The President To Serve The Country, To Serve A Cause Greater Than Self. And So I've Thought About An Administration Of People Who Represent All America, But People Who Understand My Compassionate And Conservative Philosophy.

This Is Preservation Month. I Appreciate Preservation. It's What You Do When You Run For President. You Gotta Preserve.

Look At Other Countries That Have Tried To Have Federally Controlled Health Care. They Have Poor-quality Health Care. Our Health-care System Is The Envy Of The World Because We Believe In Making Sure That The Decisions Are Made By Doctors And Patients, Not By Officials In The Nation's Capital.

It's Going To Require Numerous Ira Agents.

I Think He Needs To Stand Up And Say If He Thought The President Were Wrong On Policy And Issues, He Ought To Say Where.

What I Really Think Is Going To Happen Over Time Is Technology Is Going To Change The Way We Live For The Good For The Environment.

Concentration Of Greenhouse Gases, Especially Co2, Have Increased Substantially Since The Beginning Of The Industrial Revolution. And The National Academy Of Sciences Indicates That The Increase Is Due In Large Part To Human Activity.

I Am Comfortable Knowing That I Put My Heart And Soul Into The Presidency.

Listen, I Know Of Nobody -- I Don't Know Of Anybody In My Administration Who Leaked Classified Information. If Somebody Did Leak Classified Information, I'd Like To Know It, And We'll Take The Appropriate Action. And This Investigation Is A Good Thing.

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Fridtjof Nansen

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