President’s Radio Address

January 12, 2008 THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I’m speaking to you from the Middle East, where I have been meeting with friends and allies. We’re discussing how we can work together to confront the extremists who threaten our future. And I have encouraged them to take advantage of the historic opportunity we have before us to advance peace, freedom, and security ...

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President Bush Participates in Briefings at U.S. Department

12:06 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I’ve just completed a meeting with Secretary Gates and General Pace and the members of the Joint Chiefs. I appreciate your hospitality. I really enjoy coming to the Defense Department to sit at the same table with these distinguished Americans. These folks are good, strategic thinkers. They’re smart, they’re capa...

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President Bush Discusses Western Hemisphere Policy

March 5, 2007 1:13 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. (Applause.) Please be seated — siéntese. Buenas tardes. Gracias por la bienvenida. For those of you not from Texas, that means, good afternoon. (Laughter.) And thank you for the welcome. I’m honored to be back again with the men and women of the Hispanic Chamber. I appreciate your hospitality. I&...

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President Bush Meets with Special Envoy for Sudan Rich Williamson

January 17, 2008 THE PRESIDENT: I’ve just had an extensive visit with Madam Secretary and members of my national security team; Rich Williamson, who is the Presidential Envoy — Special Envoy to Sudan. We talked about our common commitment and the commitment of this government to help the suffering of citizens in Sudan who, you know, suffer deprivation and rape....

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President Bush Attends Ceremonial Swearing-In of Judge Michael Mukasey

November 14, 2007 THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very much. Good morning. I’m pleased to be back here at the Department of Justice, and to join you for the swearing-in of Judge Michael Mukasey as the 81st Attorney General of the United States. We welcome Michael’s wife, Susan, their children, Marc and Jessica, their son-in-law Corey, their grandchildren, William a...

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President Bush Meets with President Lula of Brazil

September 24, 2007 6:48 P.M. EDT PRESIDENT BUSH: It’s a pleasure to be with my friend, the President of Brazil. Every time we visit it’s always a fruitful and important discussion. We talked about climate change. And I assured the President that the event we’re having in Washington — which he kindly is coming to — is an important meeting about...

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President Bush Attends Seventh-Annual White House Tee Ball G

June 27, 2007 THE PRESIDENT: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to opening day right here on the South Lawn of the White House. Jonas Brothers, thank you guys. Good to see you. Proud you’re here. As usual, you did a fantastic job with the National Anthem. Just give them a hand. (Applause.) I’m proud to be here with the Commissioner of Tee Ball, two-time Olympic Gold ...

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新加坡总理吴作栋理国庆群众大会演讲

新加坡总理吴作栋理国庆群众大会演讲(英语演讲全文) PM’s National Day Rally 2001 Speech   INTRODUCTION     CLIMBING MOUNT EVEREST   When the Singapore team successfully climbed Mount Everest(中国称珠穆朗玛峰)) in 1998, I cheered. I spoke to Khoo Swee Chiow and his team-mates later. They told me that they climbed up in stages, from Base Camp(探险队等的营地) to C...

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President Bush Visits Wounded Warriors and Re-Affirms Suppor

August 13, 2007 11:07 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for coming. It’s an honor for me to be here with Senator Bob Dole, and Secretary Donna Shalala, Secretary Jim Nicholson, and Deputy Secretary Gordon England. I appreciate the opportunity to come to a building full of compassion, a place of expertise, where people are dedicating their time and efforts to help those ...

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President Bush Attends Briefing on Comprehensive Immigration

June 1, 2007 1:26 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Please be seated. First, I thank you very much for your hard work on a comprehensive immigration bill and your concern about our country. And the two go hand-in-hand. I believe that now is the time to address the issue of immigration. I think it’s in our national security interests, and I think it’s in the...

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Message to the Congress of the United States

September 12, 2007 Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. C...

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President Bush Meets with President Putin of Russian Federat

July 2, 2007 12:28 P.M. EDT PRESIDENT BUSH: I wanted to congratulate the President for being the only person that caught a fish. A fine catch. Secondly, I welcome you to my family home. And we had a good, casual discussion on a variety of issues. You know, through the course of our relationship there have been times when we’ve agreed on issues and there’s been...

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President Bush Meets with Bicameral and Bipartisan Members of Congress

January 22, 2008 THE PRESIDENT: I want to thank the leaders for coming. I initially intended to brief the leaders of the House and the Senate on my trip to the Middle East, and I intend to do so, but we’re going to spend some time talking about this economy and the need for us to find common ground for an effective pro-growth economic package. We had a good call last ...

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President Bush Presents the Medal of Honor to Lieutenant Col

February 26, 2007 2:30 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Welcome. I am pleased that you all are here on a very special day. Presenting the Medal of Honor is one of the great privileges for the President. The medal is the highest military decoration a President can confer. This medal is awarded for actions above and beyond the call of duty. Cavalry helicopter flight commander in the ...

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President Bush Meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki

September 25, 2007 PRESIDENT BUSH: Mr. Prime Minister, it’s good to see you again. We generally meet via TV screens, and now it’s good to see you in person. And I appreciate your delegation coming. You brought a very distinguished delegation — ministers in this government, foreign ministers, the Speaker of the Assembly is with us today — Mr. Speaker,...

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President Bush Meets with President Yudhoyono of Indonesia

September 8, 2007 10:08 A.M. (Local) PRESIDENT BUSH: Mr. President, I admire your leadership, I admire your strength of character, and I appreciate — I appreciate our conversation today. First, I thank you very much for your strength in this struggle against extremism. You understand firsthand what it means to deal with radicalism, and you’ve done it in a very ...

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President Bush Visits Omaha, Nebraska

December 5, 2007 THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I’m pleased to be back in Nebraska. I do want to say a couple words about Iran before I talk about my friend, Mike Johanns. On the way out here I spoke with my team, who gave me a report on conversations that the Secretary of State and our National Security Advisor have had over the last couple of days with their counterp...

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President Bush Visits Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Library

January 21, 2008 THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for having us. Listen, Laura and I are thrilled to be with you. Proud to be with the Mayor and Councilman Jack Evans. We appreciate very much the Serve D.C. that is working to inspire volunteerism, and I want to thank this beautiful library for hosting us. I just got a couple of comments I want to say. First of all, Martin Luther King...

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