George W. Bush

I intend to appoint Carlos M. Ramirez to be Commissioner of the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission for the United States and Mexico.

The best foreign policy starts with making sure that relations in our own hemisphere are very positive.

Charles S. Abell, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, vice Alphonso Maldon, Jr.

We want to make sure that any money that is being spent is being spent in an effective way.

I first want to say how pleased I am that the House yesterday passed on a realistic, commonsense budget to the Senate.

We are resolved to undertake new efforts in countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

This surplus is not the Government's money; it is the people's money.

I understand small-business growth; I was one.

I look forward to working with the Senate to get a budget passed.

The violence must cease in order for there to be any meaningful dialog in the Middle East.

There's nothing worse than having a school system where centralized authority says, 'You must do it this way,' and when there's failure, somebody says, 'Oh, we would have succeeded except somebody told me to do it the way we didn't want to…

We consider it to be of particular importance for the pharmaceutical industry to take additional measures so that HIV/AIDS patients in affected developing countries can be supplied with medication at affordable prices.

Brenda L. Becker, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, vice Deborah K. Kilmer, resigned.

Literacy, as our friend Phyllis Hunter said in Houston, Texas, 'is the new civil right.'

I urge Israel to do so.

We will lend our support to the process of stabilization and democratization in the Balkans.

Grant D. Aldonas, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, vice Robert S. LaRussa.

The Government of Israel, for its part, should exercise restraint in its military response.

The work begins where opportunity usually begins, and that's in the schoolhouses.

When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and we knew exactly who the ‘they' were.

A lasting peace in the region will come only when the parties agree directly on its terms.

The United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany are linked by a deep friendship.

It is important for us to open up ANWR.

We view the development of a European Security and Defense Policy as an important contribution to sharing the burden of securing peace.

I am deeply concerned about the escalating violence in the Middle East.