Subject: Bushisms (Page 18)

Laura and I will thank them from the bottom of my heart.

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Soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Coastmen – Coast Guardmen, thanks for coming, thanks for wearing the uniform.

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… the person who runs FEMA is the first voice, often times, of someone whose life has been turned upside down hears from.

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And they have no disregard for human life.

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I understand that unrest in the Middle East creates unrest throughout the region.

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More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way.

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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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There's a lot of neighborliness taking place in the state of Virginia and North Carolina and Maryland, where if somebody hurts and somebody's lonely, somebody needs help is finding refuge and solace because a fellow citizen has taken it upon him or herself to help somebody in need.

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If you don’t stand for anything, you don’t stand for anything; if you don’t stand for something, you don’t stand for anything!

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Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.

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You might want to comment on that, Honorable.

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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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Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better.

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I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions; I can't answer your question.

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There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal; maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern; maybe it's only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government… I reject that notion.

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We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.

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I’m plowed [sic] of the leadership of Chuck Grassley and Greg Ganske and Jim Leach.

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It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way.

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I'm honored to be here with the eternal general of the United States, mi amigo Alberto Gonzales.

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This is historic times.

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I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.

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