George W. Bush

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  • “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.” -George W. Bush

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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.” -George W. Bush

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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.” -George W. Bush

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  • “People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‘Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.’ They’re changed. Trust me.” -George W. Bush

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  • “Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.” -George W. Bush

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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.” -George W. Bush

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  • “The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.” -George W. Bush

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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.” -George W. Bush

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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.” -George W. Bush

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  • “If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.” -George W. Bush

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  • “For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.” -George W. Bush

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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.” -George W. Bush

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  • “Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.” -George W. Bush

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  • “Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.” -George W. Bush

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  • “I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we’re in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.” -George W. Bush

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  • “I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.” -George W. Bush

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  • “After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.” -George W. Bush

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  • “I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.” -George W. Bush

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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.” -George W. Bush

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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.” -George W. Bush

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  • “People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.” -George W. Bush

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  • “Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.” -George W. Bush

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  • “The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.” -George W. Bush

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  • “The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.” -George W. Bush

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  • “The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.” -George W. Bush

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  • “Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.” -George W. Bush

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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.” -George W. Bush

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  • “Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.” -George W. Bush

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  • “Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.” -George W. Bush

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  • “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.” -George W. Bush

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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.” -George W. Bush

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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. – George W. Bush

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  • I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun. – George W. Bush

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