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I'm going to spend a lot of time trying to explain as best I can why it's important for us to succeed in Iraq. I'm going to do what I think is right, and if, you know, if people don't like me for it, that's just the way it is.

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George W. Bush
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: July 6
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On this National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, we ask almighty God to watch over our nation, and grant us patience and resolve in all that is to come. We pray that He will comfort and console those who now walk in sorrow. We thank Him for each life we now must mourn, and the promise of a life to come.
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We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.
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I don't feel like I've got all that much too important to say on the kind of big national issues.
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The economy is growing, productivity is high, trade is up, people are working. It's not as good as we'd like, but -- and to the extent that we find weakness, we'll move.
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Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all.
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Fighting evil, it's hard work.
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Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.
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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 show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
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We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood.
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....it is better to succeed with success than failure.
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I have zero desire to be in the limelight.
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I worry about protectionists, which is another way of saying less competition, less trade around the world. And I view those as twins of negativity.
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I really think it's important for presidents to exit the stage gracefully.
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We'll continue to speak out in a respectful way never challenging somebody's love for America when you criticize their strategies or their point of view.
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Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing.
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I pray daily, and I pray in all kinds of places. I mean, I pray in bed, I pray in the Oval Office. I pray a lot. And just different as the spirit moves me. And faith is an integral part of my life.
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I think the key anecdote in the book is when Colin [Powell] and I were discussing Iraq. Colin was upstairs in the Treaty Room, in the residence. And he talks about his concerns about the use of military in Iraq. And I said I felt the same concerns, but it might be that we have to use it. In which case, he said, I support you.
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