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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to...

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Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great...

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America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no ...

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We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andove...

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41: A Portrait of My Father

Those were comfortable, carefree years. The word I’d use now is idyllic. On Friday nights, we cheere...

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My problem was not only drinking; it was selfishness. The booze was leading me to put myself ahead o...

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Decision Points

My parents never projected their dreams onto me. If they hoped I would be a great pitcher, or politi...

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Decision Points

When the Holy Father passed away in 2005, Laura, Dad, Bill Clinton, and I flew together to his funer...

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But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush.

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When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failur...

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We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't ...

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Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we ...

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I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious re...

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Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a ...

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The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror ...

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After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal pape...

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They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.

We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemaker...

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You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies,...

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If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this ca...

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The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways t...

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We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differen...

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The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more tha...

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I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospi...

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Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps cre...

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For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unaccept...

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The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power al...

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This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

I support same-sex civil unions and I believe no should be denied their rights

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compass...

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We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom wil...

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Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with coura...

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The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere

A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their grea...

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Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment whe...

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The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the econ...

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Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples - while judging ourselves by our best inten...

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America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead sho...

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People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's h...

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It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."(...

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We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of...

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Government should do a few things, and do them right

I think war is a dangerous place.

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down w...

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I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on t...

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I am a war president.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon a...

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It’s clearly a budget. It’s got lots of numbers in it.

There is a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to...

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George W. Bush

U.S. President

Born: 1946-07-06

Died: N/A

George Walker Bush (born 6 July 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009, and the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He is the eldest son of Barbara and George H. W. Bush. He married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives shortly thereafter. He was elected president in 2000 after a close and controversial election, becoming the fourth president to be elected while receiving fewer popular votes nationwide than his opponent. He is the second president to have been the son of a former president, the first having been John Quincy Adams.More