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"And so during these holiday seasons, we thank our blessings."
- George W. Bush, Fort Belvoir, VA, Dec. 10, 2004 |
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"One year ago today, the time for excuse-making has come
to an end." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Jan. 8, 2003 |
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"If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for
anything!" - George W. Bush, Bellevue Community College, Nov. 2, 2000 |
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"Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the
road map to peace." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, July 25, 2003 |
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"And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to
try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter
how hard you look, you know?" - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, June
15, 2004 |
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"One of the common denominators I have found is that
expectations rise above that which is expected." - George W. Bush,
Los Angeles, Sept. 27, 2000 |
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"I think war is a dangerous place." - George W.
Bush, Washington, DC, May 7, 2003 |
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"And so, in my State of the - my State of the Union -
or state - my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech
to the nation - I asked Americans to give 4,000 years - 4,000 hours over
the next - the rest of your life - of service to America. That's what I
asked - 4,000 hours." - George W. Bush, Bridgeport, Conn., April 9,
2002 [AUDIO] |
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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." - George W. Bush, Washington,
DC, Oct. 28, 2003 |
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"I mentioned early on that I recognize there are hurdles,
and we're gonna achieve those hurdles." - George W. Bush, St. Louis,
MO, Jan. 22, 2003 [AUDIO] |
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"There's no question that the minute I got elected, the
storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead."
- George W. Bush, Washington, DC, May 11, 2001 |
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"My pro-life position is I believe there's life. It's
not necessarily based in religion. I think there's a life there, therefore
the notion of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness." - George W.
Bush, San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 23, 2001 |
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"Well, all due in modesty, I thought I did a pretty good
job myself of making it clear that he's [Saddam Hussein's] not disarming
and why he should disarm." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Jan. 31,
2003 |
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"A family in Allentown, Pennsylvania, I campaigned with
them the other day... Under my plan, they get $1800 of tax relief. Under
Vice President Gore's plan, they get $145 of tax relief. Now you tell me
who stands on the side of the fence." - George W. Bush, first presidential
debate, Boston, MA, Oct. 3, 2000 (And you tell me which side of the grass
is always sitting on the greener fence.) |
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"As we work to keep the peace we've also got to work
to make America a better place for all of us. I mean every single citizen.
That means we've got to have an education system that is next to none."
- George W. Bush, Denver, CO, Sep. 27, 2002 (Anyway you cut it, "next
to none" can't be a good thing. The cliché the President was
groping for was, of course, "second to none.") |
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