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“Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.”
“No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.”
“The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.”
“Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.”
“And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.”
“Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.”
“On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.”
“The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.”
“The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.”
“America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.”
“States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.”
“America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.”
“I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.”
“I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.”
“I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.”
“People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.”
“Bring them on.”
“For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.”
“Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'”
“I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.”