Author: George W. Bush Page 22

We've tripled the amount of money – I believe it's from $50 million up to $195 million available.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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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.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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Some call this civil war; others call it emergency – I call it pure evil.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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Should the Iranian regime – do they have the sovereign right to have civilian nuclear power? … so, like, if I were you, that's what I'd ask me; and the answer is, yes, they do.

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Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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It's going to require numerous IRA agents.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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When you're out there campaigning and talking to people, remind them what we have been through as a country. We've been through a recession – that means we're going backwards.

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There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk—that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras—it got drunk and now it's got a hangover. The question is how long will it sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?'… well, Mandela's dead; because Saddam killed all the Mandelas.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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Never again in the halls of Washington, D.C., do I want to have to make explanations that I can’t explain.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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Oftentimes, we live in a processed world, you know, people focus on the process and not results.

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I think—tide turning – see, as I remember – I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of—it's easy to see a tide turn—did I say those words?

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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I'm thrilled to be here in the bread basket of America because it gives me a chance to remind our fellow citizens that we have an advantage here in America – we can feed ourselves.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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Anyone engaging in illegal financial transactions will be caught and persecuted.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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I listen carefully to their advice; but having gathered the device [sic], I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

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I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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I cut the taxes on everybody. I didn't cut them. The Congress cut them. I asked them to cut them.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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I hope you leave here and walk out and say, ‘What did he say?’

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town, and I’m sorry it’s the case, and I’ll work hard to try to elevate it.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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