George W. Bush

Most of our imports come from other countries.

Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done.

I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.

As Americans, we want peace -- we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.

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

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.

In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

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.

The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

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.

The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

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.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.

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.

For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.

America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.

Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.

I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.

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

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.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.

America does not need a permission slip to defend ourselves.

States should have the right to enact... laws...particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

I think we agree, the past is over.

... if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop duster that doesn't belong to you -- report it.

Chew before you swallow.

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

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.

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'

One thing I have learned about the presidency is that whatever shortcomings you have, people are going to notice them -- and whatever strengths you have, you're going to need them.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Freedom is not America's gift to the world, it is the Almighty God's gift to every man and woman in this world.

There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment, and expose the pretensions of tyrants, and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant, and that is the force of human freedom.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.

When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.

By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well--a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.

The battle is now joined on many fronts. We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter; and we will not fail.