I saw a threat in Saddam Hussein. Members of the United States Congress from both political parties saw that same threat. The United Nation's saw the threat. I made the right decision in getting Saddam Hussein out of power.
I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats always get more credit than they deserve. They are just better at political discourse that we are.
I think by not participating in the current political debate, hopefully I'm sending a signal that will help set a tone.
The question is: How do we succeed in Iraq? And you don't succeed by leaving before the mission is complete, like some in this political process are suggesting.
You can't have a democracy with an armed political party willing to bomb its neighbor without the consent of its government or, you know, just deciding, "Well, let's create enough chaos and discord by lobbing rockets. And so the reality is in order for Lebanon to succeed and we want Lebanon's democracy to succeed the process is going to the Lebanese government's eventually going to have to deal with Hezbollah.
We all know the big elephant in the room. The big elephant in the room is African governments. Africa has been totally mismanaged and misruled, but nobody wants to talk about that because of political correctness.
After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.
That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired.
This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them.
They have miscalculated me as a leader.
I would have my secretary of treasury be in touch with the financial centers, not only here but at home.
It's going to require numerous IRA agents.
It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term.
If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.
I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace.
I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.
I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida.
If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly reject that assumption - that John Ashcroft is a openminded, inclusive person.
I am mindful that we're all sinners.
About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.
Please don't kill me!
I expect you to work hard on our agenda.
My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt.
Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is.
But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the-that don't let people in to take a look and see what they're up to. They're very kind of authoritarian regimes. The true threat is whether or not one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom we'll defend, offer our defenses; the South Koreans.
