Author: George W. Bush Page 5

See, without the tax relief package, there would have been a deficit, but there wouldn't have been the commiserate – not 'commiserate' – the kick to our economy that occurred as a result of the tax relief.

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It’s important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots.

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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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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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I'm not really the type to wander off and sit down and go through deep wrestling with my soul.

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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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And so during these holiday seasons, we thank our blessings.

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We're blessed with such values in America; and I… it's… I'm a proud man to be the nation based upon such wonderful values.

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I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.

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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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Laura and I really don’t realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis.

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As you know, we don't have relationships with Iran. I mean, that's – ever since the late '70s, we have no contacts with them, and we've totally sanctioned them. In other words, there's no sanctions – you can't – we're out of sanctions.

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Information is moving—you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it's also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets.

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Communication Intelligence

We hold dear what our Declaration of Independence says, that all have got uninalienable rights, endowed by a Creator.

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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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It's your money; you paid for it.

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Public speaking is very easy.

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Communication Speech

Success is not no violence.

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Whether it resonates or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work.

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There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one; others hug but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's like.

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There’s no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.

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