George W. Bush

We have proposed several major initiatives designed to promote responsible fatherhood, strengthen families, and make adoption easier and more affordable.

Our great challenge is to include all the world's poor in an expanding circle of development.

I urge all Americans to express their love, respect, support, and appreciation to their parents.

We need to reduce greenhouse gases, and we'll work a plan to do so.

This has been a very productive meeting.

Those who claim to represent the voices of the poor aren't doing so.

Free trade is the only proven path out of poverty for developing nations.

This is a time of great opportunity.

My relationship with President Putin is better than it was in Slovenia by virtue of the fact that we're spending more informal time together.

Today, I call on all multilateral banks to increase the share of their funding devoted to education, and to tie support more directly to clear and measurable results.

The United States is committed to working with other nations to reduce suffering and to spare lives.

Increasing global growth and prosperity depends crucially on a sound and stable international financial system.

I also propose the World Bank and other development banks dramatically increase the share of their funding provided as grants, rather than loans, to the poorest countries.

Today the benefits of tax relief begin coming home for everyone who pays income taxes in America.

We encourage HIPCs that have not yet reached their decision point to quickly undertake the necessary economic and social reforms, including the development of a strategy for overall poverty reduction in co-operation with the World Bank and…

We call on MDBs to provide support for global public goods, such as fighting infectious diseases, facilitating trade, fostering financial stability and protecting the environment.

I thank all of those who have supported this tax relief for the past year and a half.

Opening markets globally and strengthening the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as the bedrock of the multilateral trading system is therefore an economic imperative.

These checks will help provide timely relief.

Your money is on its way back to you.

It's your money, and it's your choice.

My proposal today doesn't merely ‘drop the debt -- it helps stop the debt.'

This is a refund of your own money, money you've earned and money you'll now be able to spend.

We are committed to working with developing countries, including the least developed, to ensure that the new Round addresses their priorities through improved market access and sounder, more transparent trade rules.

We have the power to help.