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Edited on Fri Feb-20-04 01:52 AM by TruthIsAll
I'm thrilled to be here in the bread basket of America because it gives me a chance to remind our fellow citizens that we have an advantage here in America—we can feed ourselves. The federal government and the state government must not fear programs who change lives, but must welcome those faith-based programs for the embetterment of mankind. There may be some tough times here in America. But this country has gone through tough times before, and we're going to do it again.
I can assure you that, even though I won't be sitting through every single moment of the seminars, nor will the vice president, we will look at the summaries. The trial lawyers are very politically powerful. But here in Texas we took them on and got some good medical—medical malpractice.I firmly believe the death tax is good for people from all walks of life all throughout our society.
Our country puts $1 billion a year up to help feed the hungry. And we're by far the most generous nation in the world when it comes to that, and I'm proud to report that. This isn't a contest of who's the most generous. I'm just telling you as an aside. We're generous. We shouldn't be bragging about it. But we are. We're very generous.
Oftentimes, we live in a processed world—you know, people focus on the process and not results. All up and down the different aspects of our society, we had meaningful discussions. Not only in the Cabinet Room, but prior to this and after this day, our secretaries, respective secretaries, will continue to interact to create the conditions necessary for prosperity to reign.
First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill. Now, we talked to Joan Hanover. She and her husband, George, were visiting with us. They are near retirement—retiring—in the process of retiring, meaning they're very smart, active, capable people who are retirement age and are retiring.
Let me tell you my thoughts about tax relief. When your economy is kind of ooching along, it's important to let people have more of their own money. I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things. I recently met with the finance minister of the Palestinian Authority, was very impressed by his grasp of finances. See, without the tax relief package, there would have been a deficit, but there wouldn't have been the commiserate—not 'commiserate'—the kick to our economy that occurred as a result of the tax relief. We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.
If you don't have any ambitions, the minimum-wage job isn't going to get you to where you want to get, for example. In other words, what is your ambitions? And oh, by the way, if that is your ambition, here's what it's going to take to achieve it.
It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber. I think we're making progress. We understand where the power of this country lay. It lays in the hearts and souls of Americans. It must lay in our pocketbooks. It lays in the willingness for people to work hard. But as importantly, it lays in the fact that we've got citizens from all walks of life, all political parties, that are willing to say, I want to love my neighbor. I want to make somebody's life just a little bit better. This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.
The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a person's race.
It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge). I think it's a mistake not to. And I would urge you all to travel up there and take a look at it, and you can make the determination as to how beautiful that country is. And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.—Press conference, Washington, A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses—Hispanically owned or otherwise—pay taxes at the highest marginal rate.
I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same questions: How'd your meeting go with so-and-so? … How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address—state of the budget address, whatever you call it. Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open. My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt
The budget caps were busted, mightily so. And we are reviewing with people like Judd Gregg from New Hampshire and others some budgetary reform measures that will reinstate—you know, possibly reinstate budgetary discipline. But the caps no longer—the caps, I guess they're there. But they didn't mean much. You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well
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. I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure. There was no malfeance involved. This was an honest disagreement about accounting procedures. ... There was no malfeance, no attempt to hide anything. I also understand how tender the free enterprise system can be. Over 75 percent of white Americans own their home, and less than 50 percent of Hispanos and African Americans don't own their home. And that's a gap, that's a homeownership gap. And we've got to do something about it. Do you have blacks, too? I want to thank the dozens of welfare to work stories, the actual examples of people who made the firm and solemn commitment to work hard to embetter themselves.
I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy on teaching children to read and having an education system that's responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, will make America what we want it to be—a literate country and a hopefuller country. I would have to ask the questioner. I haven't had a chance to ask the questioners the question they've been questioning. On I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their business. And, like them, I am very optimistic about our position in the world and about its influence on the United States. We're concerned about the short-term economic news, but long-term I'm optimistic. And so, I hope investors, you know—secondly, I hope investors hold investments for periods of time—that I've always found the best investments are those that you salt away based on economics.
The person who runs FEMA is someone who must have the trust of the president. Because the person who runs FEMA is the first voice, often times, of someone whose life has been turned upside down hears from. Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods. I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida.
I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them.
Dick Cheney and I do not want this nation to be in a recession. We want anybody who can find work to be able to find work. They misunderestimated me. Think about that. Two hundred and eighty-five new or expanded programs, $2 trillion more in new spending, and not one new bureaucrat to file out the forms or answer the phones? They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program. They said, 'You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the people.' And I said, you know something? Whether it resignates or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work.
Anyway, after we go out and work our hearts out, after you go out and help us turn out the vote, after we've convinced the good Americans to vote, and while they're at it, pull that old George W. lever, if I'm the one, when I put my hand on the Bible, when I put my hand on the Bible, that day when they swear us in, when I put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not—to uphold the laws of the land.
It's your money. You paid for it. That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century. It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.
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. Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream. If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders. Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it. It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term. I would have my secretary of treasury be in touch with the financial centers, not only here but at home.
I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully. I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy. One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected. It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas. Well, that's going to be up to the pundits and the people to make up their mind. I'll tell you what is a president for him, for example, talking about my record in the state of Texas. I mean, he's willing to say anything in order to convince people that I haven't had a good record in Texas.
I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans. A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness. The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some of their own money. I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs.This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them.
We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers. We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans. I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways. The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming.--on his anti-Gore ad, in an interview with theAs governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards. Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.
I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking. Unfairly but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against things. Anti-immigrant, for example. And we're not a party of anti-immigrants. Quite the opposite. We're a party that welcomes people. The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective.
There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me. On the coming Social Security crisis; Wilton, Conn. The fact that he relies on facts—says things that are not factual—are going to undermine his campaign. I think we agree, the past is over. It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature. I understand small business growth. I was one. How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through? We ought to make the pie higher. I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth. Will the highways on the Internet become more few?
This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve. I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family. The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women who are focused on what's best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house. This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mential losses.
I think it's important for those of us in a position of responsibility to be firm in sharing our experiences, to understand that the babies out of wedlock is a very difficult chore for mom and baby alike. ... I believe we ought to say there is a different alternative than the culture that is proposed by people like Miss Wolf in society. ... And, you know, hopefully, condoms will work, but it hasn't worked.
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