George W. Bush Quotes

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.
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America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.
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America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
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America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
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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.
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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.
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America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
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Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
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Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
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Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilised world and will be confronted.
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Bring them on.
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Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.
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Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
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Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
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Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.
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For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.
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For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.
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Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
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Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
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Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury.
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Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
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Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.
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I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
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I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.
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I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.
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I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
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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.
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I don't see how you can lead this country to succeed in Iraq if you say wrong war, wrong time, wrong place. What message does that send our troops? What message does that send to our allies? What message does that send the Iraqis?
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I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
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I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
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I think war is a dangerous place.
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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.
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I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.
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I understand I'm running against a person who is so anxious to become president, he will do whatever it takes.
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I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes.
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I'll tell you what PAYGO means, when you're a senator from Massachusetts, when you're a colleague of Ted Kennedy, pay go means: You pay, and he goes ahead and spends.
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I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
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If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.
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If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
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Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
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It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
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John Kerry says we didn't have any allies in this war. What's he say to Tony Blair? What's he say to Alexander Kwasniewski of Poland? You can't expect to build an alliance when you denigrate the contributions of those who are serving.
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
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Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
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On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
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One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.
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