George W. Bush
I think by not participating in the current political debate, hopefully I'm sending a signal that will help set a tone.Collection: Thinking
I think that not criticizing my successor is a statement unto itself, in terms of trying to create an environment where people are able to have a meaningful discussion or debate without trash talk.Collection: Meaningful
I'm going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess, it's the mother in me.Collection: Mother
I'm not the expert on how the Iraqi people think, because I live in America, where it's nice and safe and secure.Collection: Nice
I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don't.Collection: War
Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilize their country.Collection: Country
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.Collection: Land
I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.Collection: Moving
I want to tell you how proud I am to be the President of a nation that - in which there's a lot of Philippine-Americans. They love America and they love their heritage. And I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the - of our Philippine-Americans when I eat dinner at the White House.Collection: White
And I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president.Collection: President
We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood.Collection: Country
The person who runs FEMA is someone who must have the trust of the president because the person who runs FEMA is the first voice oftentimes of someone whose life has been turned upside down here's from.Collection: Running
I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.Collection: Jobs
Our war on terror begins with al-Qaida, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.Collection: War
Our Nation's founding commitment is still our deepest commitment: In our world, and here at home, we will extend the frontiers of freedom.Collection: Home
It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature.Collection: Humor
My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail.Collection: Country
Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.Collection: America
Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice - made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life.Collection: Suicide
There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country.Collection: Country
I did denounce it. I de-I denounced it. I denounced interracial dating. I denounced anti-Catholic bigacy... bigotry.Collection: Dating
I would have said yes to abortion if only it was right. I mean, yeah it's right. Well no it's not right that's why I said no to it.Collection: Mean
The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective.Collection: Humor
All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.Collection: Liberty
The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.Collection: America
The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!Collection: War
That's a chapter - the last chapter - of the 20th ... 20th ... the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century.Collection: Humor
There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.Collection: Humor
But I also made it clear to him [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.Collection: Humor
We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House, make no mistake about it.Collection: Mistake
I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.Collection: Humor
There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.Collection: Humor
I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy on teaching children to read and having an education system that's responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, will make America what we want it to be - a more literate country and a hopefuller country.Collection: Country
To the captives, 'come out,' -- and to those in darkness, 'be free.'Collection: Darkness
For states that support terror, it is not enough that the consequences be costly-they must be devastatingCollection: Military
Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.Collection: Wmd
We have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas.Collection: Iraq
The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.Collection: Wmd
It is clear that the future of freedom and peace depend on the actions of America. This nation is freedom's home. We are freedom's defender. We welcome this charge of history, and we are keeping it. The war on terror continues. The enemies of freedom are not idle. And neither are we. This country will not rest, we will not tire, we will not stop until this danger to civilization is removed.Collection: Country
I came to this office to solve problems, and not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.Collection: Office
We've come to know truths that we will never question: evil is real, and it must be opposed.Collection: Real
I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet.Collection: Trying
States like these [Iran, Iraq, North Korae], and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.Collection: Mean
I think the thing that -- the prayer that I would like America is to ask for is to pray for God's protection for our land and our people, to pray against -- that there's a shield of protection, so that if the evil ones try to hit us again, that we've done everything we can, physically, and that there is a spiritual shield that protects the country.Collection: Spiritual
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.Collection: Country
We know the surface temperature of the Earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s, cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s, and then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today.Collection: Past
There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent a significant portion of infrared radiation from escaping into space.Collection: Escaping
Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity.Collection: Revolution
We do not know how much our climate could or will change in the future. We do not know how fast change will occur or even how some of our actions could impact it.Collection: Impact