George W. Bush
43rd President of the United States, serving from 2001 to 2009.
The federal government and the state government must not fear programs who change lives, but must welcome those faith-based programs for the embetterment [sic] of mankind.
And yes, I'm aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved.... I told the country we did that. And I also told them it was legal. We had legal opinions that enabled us to do it.
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
"We support the election process. We support democracy, but that doesn't mean that we have to support governments that get elected as a result of democracy." Bush commenting about the Palestinian elections that resulted in Hamas coming to power in the Gaza Strip. March 29, 2006
My Geordie is probably just about as bad as my English.
If you're a single mother with two children—which is the toughest job in America, as far as I'm concerned—you're working hard to put food on your family.
We cannot rely exclusively on military power to assure our long-term security. Lasting peace is gained as justice and democracy advance.
We did not charge hundreds of miles into the heart of Iraq and pay a bitter cost of casualties and liberate 25 million people only to retreat before a band of thugs and assassins.
[M]y administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.
If the terriers and barriffs [sic] are torn down, this economy will grow.
I was going to say he's a piece of work, but that might not translate too well. Is that all right, if I call you a 'piece of work'?
Lucky me, I hit the trifecta.
Now that I've got the will of the people at my back, I'm going to start enforcing the one-question rule. That was three questions.
Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere... Nope, no weapons over there... Maybe under here.
There are some who feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on.
I do not believe that the President was in any way directly involved in the leaking of her identity, but that was a very disillusioning moment for me when I found out when it initially hit the press, and I was in North Carolina, if I remember correctly, and a reporter shouted out to the President, "Is it true that you authorized the secret leaking of this classified information?" We walked onto Air Force One, and the President asks, "What was the reporter asking?", and I said, "He asserted that you were the one who authorized Scooter Libby leaking this information," and he said, "Yeah, I did."
See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. — May 24, 2005
[O]ne of the great goals of this nation's war is to restore public confidence in the airline industry. It's to tell the traveling public: Get on board. Do your business around the country. Fly and enjoy America's great destination spots. Get down to Disney World in Florida.
I've heard he's been called Bush's poodle. He's bigger than that.
The protection of America itself will assume a high priority in a new century. Once a strategic afterthought, homeland defense has become an urgent duty. For most of our history, America felt safe behind two great oceans. But with the spread of technology, distance no longer means security.