Author: George W. Bush Page 19

More and more of our imports come from overseas.

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So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, “Congratulations.”

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When your economy is kind of ooching along, it's important to let people have more of their own money.

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I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand – but the president doesn't have a magic wand.

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Do you have blacks, too?

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What I'm telling you is there's too many junk lawsuits suing too many doctors.

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I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town, and I’m sorry it’s the case, and I’ll work hard to try to elevate it.

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Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.

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You helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17… 1976.

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And we're by far the most generous nation in the world when it comes to that, and I'm proud to report that. This isn't a contest of who's the most generous. I'm just telling you as an aside. We're generous. We shouldn't be bragging about it. But we are. We're very generous.

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The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein beause of the nature of Saddam Hussein, his history and his willingness to terrorize himself.

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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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There’s an old saying in Tennessee – I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on – shame on you; fool me – you can’t get fooled again.

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Will the highways on the Internet become more few?

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The march to war hurt the economy. Laura reminded me a while ago that remember what was on the TV screens –- she calls me, 'George W.' – 'George W.' I call her, 'First Lady.' No, anyway – she said, we said, march to war on our TV screen.

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Sometimes, Washington is one of these towns where the person – people who think they've got the sharp elbow is the most effective person.

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Then you wake up at the high school level and find out that the illiteracy level of our children are appalling.

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It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.


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You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war president; no president wants to be a war president, but I am one.

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There are jobs Americans aren’t doing… if you’ve got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what I’m talking about.

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This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin and in Leipzig. By the end of that year, every communist dictatorship in Central America had collapsed.

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