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[My father] taught me (at least he showed me) a dignified way to be a former president is that once you're off the stage, you're off the stage.

George W. Bush

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George W. Bush
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: July 6
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There's this kind of almost - kind of a weird kind of elitism that says well maybe - maybe certain people in certain parts of the world shouldn't be free maybe it's best just to let them sit in these tyrannical societies. And our foreign policy rejects that concept. And we don't accept it. And so we're working.
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I [have big plans]. Promoting freedom around the world, particularly with women in the Middle East. Working on global disease. Working on accountability in public schools. And advocating for a free marketplace and an economic environment in which businesses can innovate and create jobs.
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We've come to know truths that we will never question: evil is real, and it must be opposed.
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I don't care what the polls say. I don't.
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The key thing about life is to be true to a set of beliefs. And to be genuine.
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The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.
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