- [Lacrosse, WI, Oct. 18, 2000] Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
- [Greensboro, NC, Oct. 10, 2000] Our priorities is our faith.
- [St. Louis, MO, Oct. 18, 2000] If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.
- Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about.
- Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is - I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president.
- I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
- It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term.
- Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it.
- If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.
- The very act of spending money can be expensive.
- I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe - I believe what I believe is right.
- Actually, I--this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about--when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.
- More and more of our imports come from overseas.
- The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
- This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.
- It's your money. You paid for it.
- I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions; I can't answer your question.
- I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.
- One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.
- [To rescue workers at the World Trade Center, New York, September 14, 2001] I can hear you! I hear you, the rest of the world hears you, and the people who knocked down these buildings will hear all of us soon!
- The United States has no truer friend than Great Britain.
- America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day. Yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world.
- [During a televised address on the night of September 11, 2001] We will prevail.
- I hope I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, anti-racism. This is what drives me.
- [June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson, unaware that a live TV camera was running] It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.
- Is our children learning?
- The presidency is more than an honor, it is more than an office, it is a charge to keep and I will give it my all.
- I was not elected to serve one party, but to serve one nation.
- I will not yield, I will not rest, I will not relent in waging the struggle for freedom and security for the American people.
- Our priorities are our faith. Our priorities are our family. Our priority is a country we love dearly called America.
- [on his hopes for Saddam Hussein's interrogation] He's a deceiver, he's a liar, he's a torturer, he's a murderer. I can't imagine why he would change his attitude, since he'll be treated humanely by US troops. And, you know, I would be very skeptical of anything he said one way or the other.
- [on the fate of Saddam Hussein after trial] I've got my own personal views. This is a brutal dictator. He's a person who killed a lot of people. But my personal views are not important in this matter. It's going to be up to the Iraqis to make those decisions.
- [on his hopes for Saddam Hussein's interrogation] I don't believe he'll tell the truth. He didn't tell the truth for over a decade. I just can't believe he's going to change his ways now just because he happens to be captured.
- [Announcing his run for re-election] I have come to realize this job is a magnificent job.
- [on Saddam Hussein's fate] This is a disgusting tyrant who deserves justice, the ultimate justice.
- [State of the Union address, Jan. 28, 2003] Freedom is not America's gift to the world. It is God's gift to humanity.
- [October 2002] If we know Saddam has WMDs - and we do - does it make sense for the world to wait to confront him?
- We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease, and it suffers from poverty as well.
- This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses.
- [Discussing the website GWbush.com, which parodies him] There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of this site, and this guy is just a garbage man, that's all he is.
- [Regarding 9/11, from the 2004 State of the Union address] In grief, we found the grace to go on.
- [During an interview about the recent death of Ronald Reagan, former US President and former Governor of California] . . . of course I think he was underestimated. People, mostly people on the East Coast, were saying that an actor couldn't be President. But what they were forgetting was that he was the governor of the largest state in the Union.
- Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
- If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long.
- I don't think I was clinically an alcoholic; I didn't have the genuine addiction. I don't know why I drank. I liked to drink, I guess.
- In the corporate world, sometimes things aren't exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures.
- My job is to lead.
- My job is to, like, think beyond the immediate.
- My views are one that speaks to freedom.
- The signal we ought to send to our children is that in spite of what happened in the '60s and '70s, we have learned some lessons. And the lessons ought to be: don't be using drugs and alcohol.
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