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.
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It may be that the Iraqi government provided assistance in some form to the recent attack on the United States. But even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. Failure to undertake such an effort will constitute an early and perhaps decisive surrender in the war on international terrorism.
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As all of us saw on television, there is also some deep, persistent poverty in this region, as well, ... That poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America. We have a duty to confront this poverty with bold action. So, let us restore all that we have cherished from yesterday, and let us rise above the legacy of inequality.
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I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity.
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I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.
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I want to offer congratulations to Pope Benedict XVI, a man of great wisdom, and knowledge. He's a man who serves the Lord. And we remember well a sermon at the pope's funeral in Rome -- how his words touched our hearts and the hearts of millions. We join our fellow citizens and millions around the world who pray for continued strength and wisdom as His Holiness leads the Catholic Church.
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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.
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America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
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After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.
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America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
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Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them
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Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.
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American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.
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If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.
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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.
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As long as I sit in this chair, all future catastrophes will be planned by me.
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Their efforts are a tribute to democracy and an example that difficult problems can be solved peacefully through debate, negotiation and compromise.
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Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
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America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
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America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.
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A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
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America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.
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It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one,
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Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.
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At this moment there is no pandemic influenza in the United States or the world, but if history is our guide there's reason to be concerned, ... In the last century, our country and the world have been hit by three influenza pandemics, and viruses from birds contributed to all of them.
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....it is better to succeed with success than failure.
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As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.
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History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.
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My own judgement is that our party will continue to succeed because we're the party of ideas.
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Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
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