George W. Bush

By aggressively prosecuting gun criminals and drug dealers, you make neighborhoods safer for all families.

I ask the Congress to appropriate the funds as requested and promptly send the bill to me for signature.

Attorney General—or General—congratulations.

I appreciate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor for administering the oath and admitting publicly that she was born in Texas.

Over the past 4 years, Attorney General Ashcroft has started the Department of Justice on the right course in the war on terror.

I hereby designate the specific proposals in the amounts requested herein as emergency requirements.

To protect the American people, Congress must promptly renew all provisions of the PATRIOT Act this year.

Attorney General Gonzales now joins every employee at the Department of Justice in an urgent mission to protect the United States from another terrorist attack.

I will continue to push for energy legislation to help keep our economy strong.

I believe that Americans benefit from open markets and free and fair trade.

We will not change Social Security for those now retired or nearing retirement.

The United States is enjoying a robust economic expansion because of the good policies we have put in place.

I support medical liability reform to control the cost of health care.

I will lead a bipartisan effort to reform our tax code to make it simpler, fairer, and more pro-growth.

I have pledged to cut the deficit in half by 2009, and we are on track to do so.

We have created health savings accounts, which give workers and families more control over their health care decisions.

North Korea's actions and words only deepen their isolation from the international community.

That's what he made clear recently.

I fully understand a lot of people are very dependent upon their Social Security check.

I came to Washington to solve problems, not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.

We must move ahead with reform on a bipartisan basis, because our children's retirement security is more important than partisan politics.

Now is the time to move, and that's what I'm saying to the Congress.

The problems only get worse over time, it doesn't go away.

I think all parties in the region are making clear to North Korea that there needs to be a nuclear-free peninsula.

You're looking at either major tax increases, major cuts in benefits, major cuts in other Government programs, or massive debt.