Author: George W. Bush Page 19

There are jobs Americans aren’t doing… if you’ve got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what I’m talking about.

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That's why we are inconveniencing air traffickers, to make sure nobody is carrying weapons on airplanes.

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So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, “Congratulations.”

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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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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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Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.

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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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I’ve got God’s shoulder to cry on… and I cry a lot.

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I also understand how tender the free enterprise system can be.

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John Thune has got a common-sense vision for good forest policy, I look forward to working with him in the United Nations Senate to preserve these national heritages.

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We want to develop defenses that are capable of defending ourselves and defenses capable of defending others.

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I want to thank General John Fryer, the Superintendent of Schools here. I thought it was pretty interesting, when I was reading the background of the schools here, I see that you got you a general running the school system.

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Our priorities is our faith.

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It's clearly a budget; it's got a lot of numbers in it.

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I'm gonna talk about the ideal world, Chris… I've read – I understand reality; if you're asking me as the president, would I understand reality, I do.

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I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand – but the president doesn't have a magic wand.

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I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.

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The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some of their own money.

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And there's no doubt in my mind, not one doubt in my mind, that we will fail.

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When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt.

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

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