Subject: Bushisms (Page 13)

We're also talking to different finance ministers about how we can send a message to the Iranian government that the free world is not going to tolerate the development of know-how in how to build a weapon, or at least gain the ability to make a weapon.

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Russia is no longer our enemy and therefore we shouldn't be locked into a Cold War mentality that says we keep the peace by blowing each other up.

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I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously, but I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

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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.

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You subscribe to politics to it. I subscribe freedom to it.

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I don’t particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it.

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If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.

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It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children.

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We ended the rule of one of history's worst tyrants, and in so doing, we not only freed the American people, we made our own people more secure.

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Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he’s a pretty good actor, too.

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The important question is, how many hands have I shaked?

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These are big achievements for this country, and the people of Bulgaria ought to be proud of the achievements that they have achieved.

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My mom often used to say, "The trouble with W" – although she didn't put that to words.

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

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Justice was being delivered to a man who defied that gift from the Almighty to the people of Iraq.

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Phrases such as ‘bring them on’ or ‘dead of alive’ indicated to people that I was… you know… not a man of peace.

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I’ve reminded the prime minister—the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship.

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There ought to be limits to freedom.

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Natural gas is hemispheric; I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

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So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression.

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It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber.

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