George H.W. Bush

We are coming to bring you food and medicine and a better life. And we are coming, and we will not stop.

In Anbar province, Sunni tribes that were once fighting alongside al Qaeda against our coalition are now fighting alongside our coalition against al Qaeda. We're working to replicate the success in Anbar in other parts of the country.

These people have sworn allegiance to the very same man who ordered the attack on September the 11th, 2001, Osama bin Laden. And they want us to leave parts of the world, like Iraq, so they can establish a safe haven from which to spread…

The president also announced the U.S. is contributing $190 million to help the Palestinian territories.

Today, Mr. Bush called for an international conference, headed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, aimed at restarting talks to create a Palestinian state.

If you're a hog farmer, you're getting tired of seeing the corn prices go up. If you're a corn farmer, it's a nice feeling to see the prices go up.

The bottom line is that this is the preliminary report. I'm not making excuses, but it is hard. And I don't think Congress ought to be running the war. I think they ought to be funding our troops.

I'm not making excuses. But it is hard.

The bottom line is that this is a preliminary report. I'm not making any excuses, but it is hard. I don't think Congress ought to be running the war. I think they ought to be funding our troops.

It's -- it's run its course. And now we're going to move on.

I don't think Congress ought to be running the war, I think they ought to be funding our troops.

To begin withdrawing before our commanders tell us that we are ready would be dangerous for Iraq, for the region, and for the United States. It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to Al Qaeda. It would mean we would be risking mass…

We just started. He got all the troops there a couple of weeks ago. He asked for, you know, 20,000 troops, and I said, if that's what you need, Commander, that's what you got.

I believe that it's in this nation's interests to give the commander a chance to fully implement his operations, and I believe Congress ought to wait for General Petraeus to come back and give his assessment of the strategy that he's…

We'll take care of the poor, and we'll help the elderly. But we believe health care is best run in the private sector, not by the government.

Larry, congratulations.

You can ask, but I don't have to answer whether he was asked.

We are not in the Middle East to protect oil. We are there to stand up against aggression.

It's a tough fight. But I wouldn't have asked those troops to go into harm's way if the fight was not essential to the security of the United States of America.

I felt the punishment was severe. So, I made a decision that would commute his sentence, but leave in place a serious fine and probation. As to the future, I, you know, rule nothing in and nothing out.

The last of the reinforcements arrived in Iraq earlier this month. We are beyond a surge of forces, and we're now into a surge of operations.

America offers you its hand in friendship.

You have heard it, too, about how this is amnesty. Amnesty means that you have got to pay, you know, a price for having been here illegally. And this bill does that.

The first thing that we have got to recognize in the country is that the system isn't working. The immigration system needs reform. The status quo is unacceptable.

I can assure you that detainees are not being tortured. We respect human rights.