George W. Bush

I applaud the decision of France, as well as the significant pledges from Italy and our other important allies.

We should further enhance our national parks during the decade leading up to the 2016 centennial celebration.

We are working with the United Nations and our partners to ensure the rapid deployment of this force to help Lebanon's legitimate armed forces restore the sovereignty of its democratic Government throughout the country.

The United States is fully committed to UNIFIL's success.

The United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement will generate export opportunities for U.S. farmers, ranchers, and companies.

During Minority Enterprise Development Week, we celebrate the outstanding progress made by minority business owners.

If you are an employer, it means that in the future you will be able to inspire your employees to be more cost conscious.

I stand on the side of encouraging consumers.

Many of the things I've talked about are happening in small measure today.

The most important relationship in health care is between the patient and their provider, the patient and the doc.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, and in order to promote federally led efforts to implement more transparent and high-quality health care, it is hereby ordered as follows.

The executive order puts the federal government -- will change the federal government's procurement habits in four very significant ways when it comes to health care.

We're going to begin to be an active partner in those efforts.

Our approach is to begin defining quality for patients.

The problem is, medicine had changed and Medicare hadn't.

Nothing better than being with an entrepreneur, isn't it?

The federal government pays for as much as 40 percent of all health care in America.

There's a choice between having the government make decisions or consumers make decisions.

We want everybody to have justice.

Health care is a challenge to change.

We better get some good medical liability reform out of the United States Senate.

The executive order is about changing the system by using the purchasing power of the federal government to begin to shape the market in conjunction with other payers.

By interoperable, most of you will be familiar with the fact that many of the systems we depend on are interoperable.

If you want to have ob-gyns in America, we need medical liability reform to protect these good people.

Minority business owners represent the hopeful spirit of America.