This is a nation that loves our freedom, loves our country.
If most of the breaks go to wealthy people it’s because most of the people who pay taxes are wealthy.
We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.
This is a war between good and evil. And we have made it clear to the world that we will stand strong on the side of good, and we expect other nations to join us. This is not a war between our world and their world. It is a war to save the world.
My job is to make sure that, as President, people understand that in this country you can worship any way you choose. And I’ll take that a step further. You can be a patriot if you don’t believe in the Almighty. You can honor your country and be as patriotic as your neighbor.
Baptists have long upheld the ideal of a free church in a free state. And from the beginning, they believed that forcing a person to worship against his will violated the principles of both Christianity and civility.
We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.
Men are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money they don’t generate a lot of interest.
It’s your money. You paid for it.
Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy.
So I don’t worry about, and people shouldn’t worry about a draft I think we’re in good shape, I really do. And, if not, we’ll – I’ll address the nation. But I don’t see any need to right now.
God told me to smite Osama bin Laden, so I invaded Afghanistan. Then He told me to smite Saddam Hussein, so I invaded Iraq. Now He wants me to work on the Middle East problem...
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.
The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.
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.
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.
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.
I wish they weren’t called the ‘Bush tax cuts.’ If they’re called some other body’s tax cuts, they’re probably less likely to be raised.
God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.