George W. Bush quote: "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."

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
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I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
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Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on t...
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When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a cam...
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So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken p...
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You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
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When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it chan...
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You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
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Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with coura...
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I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to...
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One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.
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We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom wil...
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Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral ...
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Failure is not an option -- it comes bundled with Windows.
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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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I'm fast, great and unstoppable! You're a train??
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I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospi...
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The story of America is the story of expanding liberty: an ever-widening circle, constantly growing ...
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Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and th...
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We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place,...
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Over time it's going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivit...
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I take great comfort in having people around who can walk in my office and tell me what's on their m...
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They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
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This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at alot.
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America was targeted for attack because we are the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in t...
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This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you...
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"If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.
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It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies,...
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Will the highways on the Internet become more few?
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Good intentions aren't good enough!
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Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and th...
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It's exciting; I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for t...
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The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough...
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Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consum...
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See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth ...
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It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overs...
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The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.
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This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating
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America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and...
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Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, com...
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Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great...
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I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those...
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The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.
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This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
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So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says &#...
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The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror ...
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To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C student...
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I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.
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Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to cal...
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It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
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There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fo...
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After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal pape...
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It will take time to restore chaos
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Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
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The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail...
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America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead sho...
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America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no ...
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We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.
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I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write...
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I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If Ameri...
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The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their grea...
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Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.
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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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Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and ...
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The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this cen...
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We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differen...
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The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by ...
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The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.
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For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East...
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By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.
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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has becom...
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We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.
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We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by th...
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Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
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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...
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I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.
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Chew before you swallow.
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I think we agree, the past is over.
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As Americans, we want peace -- we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our sec...
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God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [...
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The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath...
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America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond ...
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If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happe...
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History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.
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America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders...
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I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when tha...
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Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of ev...
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The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And ...
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In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smil...
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American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding...
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Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foun...
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There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.
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I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.
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I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.
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Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compass...
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This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. ...
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It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
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I'm so pleased to be able to say hello to Bill Scranton. He's one of the great Pennsylvania politica...
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There is no such thing necessarily in a dictatorial regime of iron-clad absolutely solid evidence. T...
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I'm the master of low expectations.
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The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we...
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Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'
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More Muslims have died at the hands of killers than - I say more Muslims - a lot of Muslims have die...
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The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the econ...
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We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations...
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It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
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States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a ...
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There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.
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Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the pea...
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I don't make any apologies for what I do on the campaign trail.
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I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever.
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Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their ...
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I am a war president.
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I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."<...
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I don't want some mom, whose son may have recently died, to see the commander in chief playing golf.
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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...
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The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
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We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of...
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I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down w...
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good start on a broad and important agenda.
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One of the very best reasons I can think of to vote for me as president is to have Laura Bush as fir...
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Democracies replace resentment with hope, respect the rights of their citizens and their neighbors, ...
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Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
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And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, ...
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Mr. Castro, once, just once, show that you're unafraid of a real election.
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The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
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This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having ...
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rebuilding a wounded city.
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I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for th...
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Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for educat...
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Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment whe...
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who don't see beyond the horizon.
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the hardship and oppression of others.
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You're free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it'll take time to restore chaos and order - o...
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I'll tell you what PAYGO means, when you're a senator from Massachusetts, when you're a colleague of...
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part horror story, part memoir.
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I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious re...
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See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't dev...
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I am the right.
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In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.
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Most imports are from outside of the country
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Gen. Pace has shown himself to be a brilliant thinker and an inspiring leader,
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We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour th...
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We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon a...
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That perfect storm combination of catastrophes exceeded the foresight of the planners and maybe anyb...
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The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate da...
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I think the national anthem ought to be sung in English
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The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power al...
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The longer Iraq's leaders delay in forming a unity government, the greater the risk that the terrori...
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We had a good Cabinet meeting, talked about a lot of issues. Secretary of State and Defense brought ...
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How could the president be so wrong, so misinformed?
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I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe - I believe w...
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See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth ...
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America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people.
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I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured al...
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I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
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I would like to thank Nasal Beard for that warm welcome. [Thanking Hazel Beard, mayor of Shreveport,...
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The recession started upon my arrival. It could have been—some say February, some say March, some ...
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A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
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I love to bring people into the oval office...and say, this is where I office.
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We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.
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I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
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'I was going to start off tonight by telling some self-deprecating jokes, but then I couldn't think ...
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The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with ...
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It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
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Today, the Senate took an important step forward in cutting the deficit. I commend Senate leadership...
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The resolution approved today presents the Iraqi regime with a test - a final test.
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We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor as you like to be liked yourself.
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The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.
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No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background...
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I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.
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States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending...
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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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is a critical step on the path to Iraqi self-reliance.
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[To Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso]:'Do you have blacks, too?'
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Please Note -- Any similarity between puppets and actual Presidential candidates is purely coinciden...
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These extremists distort the idea of 'jihad' into a call for
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Our nation must come together to unite.
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The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.
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America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves...
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The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the al...
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If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little l...
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... if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop duster that doesn't belong ...
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We're in a fight for our principles and our first responsibility is to live by them.
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[T]hat's just the nature of democracy. Sometimes pure politics enters into the rhetoric.
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Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction ...
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I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft. We're not going to have a d...
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One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor - the president...
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We are ready for any unforeseen event which may or may not happen.
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Our border patrol and immigration agents are doing a fine job, but we still have a problem, ... Too ...
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I didn't join the International Criminal Court because I don't want to put our troops in the hands o...
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Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."
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It's totally wiped out. ... It's devastating, it's got to be doubly devastating on the ground.
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What I'm against is quotas. I'm against hard quotas, quotas that basically delineate based upon what...
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I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps cre...
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I understand small business growth. I was one.
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So thank you for reminding me about the importance of being a good mom and a great volunteer as well...
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[A]s you know, these are open forums, you're able to come and listen to what I have to say.
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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 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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