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George W. Bush
July 6, 1946 -
Nationality: American
Category: President
Subcategory: American President

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.

   

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

   

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

   

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

   

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

   

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

   

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.

   

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

   

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

   

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.

   

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

   

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."

   

We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

   

This way of life is worth defending.

   

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

   

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

   

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

   

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

   

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

   

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.

   

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