Subject: Bushisms (Page 15)

I don’t want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and our allies.

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Home is important; it's important to have a home.

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I think it’s really important for this great state of baseball to reach out to people of all walks of life to make sure that the sport is inclusive; the best way to do it is to convince little kids how to — the beauty of playing baseball.

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A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.

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We've got pockets of persistent poverty in our society, which I refuse to declare defeat – I mean, I refuse to allow them to continue on; and so one of the things that we're trying to do is to encourage a faith-based initiative to spread its wings all across America, to be able to capture this great compassionate spirit.

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It’s about past seven in the evening here so we’re actually in different time lines.

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The march to war hurt the economy. Laura reminded me a while ago that remember what was on the TV screens –- she calls me, 'George W.' – 'George W.' I call her, 'First Lady.' No, anyway – she said, we said, march to war on our TV screen.

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I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again; there just is… that's the reality of the world… and I wish him all the very best.

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And I look forward to working with Congress. As you know, appropriators are appropriators. They live up to their name, whether they be Republicans or Democrats. They like to appropriate. And our jobs as chief executives is to make sure they appropriate within reasonable levels.

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There is no such thing necessarily in a dictatorial regime of iron-clad absolutely solid evidence. The evidence I had was the best possible evidence that he had a weapon.

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We had a good Cabinet meeting, talked about a lot of issues; Secretary of State and Defense brought us up to date about our desires to spread freedom and peace around the world.

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We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

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This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin and in Leipzig. By the end of that year, every communist dictatorship in Central America had collapsed.

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I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy on teaching children to read and having an education system that's responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, will make America what we want it to be – a more literate country and a hopefuller country.

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The true threat is whether or not one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom we'll defend, offer our defenses; the South Koreans.

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We must have the attitude that every child in America – regardless of where they’re raised or how they’re born – can learn.

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And I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president.

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Other Republican candidates may retort [sic] to personal attacks and negative ads.

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We’re in for a long struggle, and I think Texans understand that… and so do Americans.

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This is historic times.

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I've got very good relations with President Mubarak and Crown Prince Abdallah and the King of Jordan, Gulf Coast countries.

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