03/31/2005
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"I often said during the campaign that Dick Cheney and I were not going to Washington just to mark time."
"I hereby order the following additional measures be taken with respect to prohibiting the importation of rough diamonds from Sierra Leone:"
"This is an administration which will keep its word, and we expect others to do so, as well."
"Any transaction by a United States person or within the United States that evades or avoids... is prohibited."