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This process has been drug out a long time, which says to me it's political.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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I suspect that had my dad not been president, he’d be asking the same questions: How’d your meeting go with so-and-so? … How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address – state of the budget address – whatever you call it.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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I don’t want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and our allies.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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How can you possibly have an international agreement that's effective unless countries like China and India are not full participants?

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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To paraphrase President Kennedy, there's America, and then there's Texas. We have great relations with France. We work closely with the French government on a lot of issues.

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We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood.

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The great thing about America is everybody should vote.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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There's no such thing as legacies…. at least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.

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I learned some pretty interesting lessons as the governor; and one lesson is that in order for schools to succeed, you'd better have you a good principal.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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And so the fact that they purchased the machine meant somebody had to make the machine; and when somebody makes a machine, it means there's jobs at the machine-making place.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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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.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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And so, what Gen. Petraeus is saying, some early signs, still dangerous, but give me – give my chance a plan to work.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge between church and state.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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People say, well, do you ever hear any other voices other than, like, a few people? … of course I do.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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The trial lawyers are very politically powerful… but here in Texas we took them on and got some good medical – medical malpractice.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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Reading is the basics for all learning.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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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.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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