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We call upon the international community to join with us in helping to realize a better future for the Iraqi people.
A Vision for Iraq and the Iraqi people (2003)
I believe that I benefit as a person and so do you, when you live under that call.
Speech at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation (2011)
Our military and our nation are entering another period of consequences – a time of rapid change and momentous choices.
A Period of Consequences (1999)
I believe women will lead the democracy movement in the Middle East.
Speech at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation (2011)
I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for President.
The most powerful force in the world is not a weapon or a nation but a truth: that we are spiritual beings, and that freedom is "the soul's right to breathe."
A Distinctly American Internationalism (1999)
I'm asking Congress to pass my Zero Down Payment Initiative. We should remove the 3 percent down payment rule for first time home buyers with FHA-insured mortgages.
Our country is more important than the politics of the moment. Let the officials elected by the people fulfill their duties and represent our voices in peace and safety.
Comments on the storming of US Capitol (2021)
We will persistently clarify the choice before every ruler and every nation — the moral choice between oppression, which is always wrong, and freedom, which is eternally right.
As we gather tonight, our nation is at war, our economy is in recession, and the civilized world faces unprecedented dangers. Yet the state of our Union has never been stronger.
State of the Union address (2002)
We are doing everything we can to avoid war in Iraq. But if Saddam Hussein does not disarm peacefully, he will be disarmed by force.
Weekly radio address (2003)
The advance of freedom is the surest strategy to undermine the appeal of terror in the world. Where freedom takes hold, hatred gives way to hope. When freedom takes hold, men and women turn to the peaceful pursuit of a better life.
Mission Accomplished (2003)
We will fight terrorism in all its forms. Iraq must never again be a haven for terrorists of any kind.
A Vision for Iraq and the Iraqi people (2003)
I hear there's rumors on the internets [pause] that we're going to have a draft. We're not going to have a draft, period.
I want to be the peace president.
I thought an interesting comment was made when somebody said to me, I heard somebody say, where's Mandela? Well, Mandela is dead, because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas.
(He) ... said he'd like to be there but "One, I'm too old to be out there, and two, they would notice me."
[M]y administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.
[T]he facts are that thousands of small businesses - Hispanically owned or otherwise - pay taxes at the highest marginal rate.
No device of man can remove the tragedy from war, yet it is a great advance when the guilty have far more to fear from war than the innocent.
Mission Accomplished (2003)