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I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.

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

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?

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

Our nation must come together to unite.

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

This young century will be liberty's century.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

This way of life is worth defending.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

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

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

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

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

God cannot use you as He wishes until you come into the fullness of His Glory. Do not get alarmed, my friend, when doubts creep in. That is old Satan. Pray, pray, pray.

Years ago I went into my laboratory and said, 'Dear Mr. Creator, please tell me what the universe was made for?' The Great Creator answered, 'You want to know too much for that little mind of yours. Ask for something more your size, little man.'

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people, they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.

From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way are revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain, I would be helpless. Only alone can I draw close enough to God to discover His secrets.

We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.