George W. Bush

Democrats are just as patriotic about their country as Republicans.

It is my conviction that taxpayer funds should not be used to pay for abortions or advocate or actively promote abortion, either here or abroad.

We're going to make sure every child has the opportunity to learn to read.

I've told the leadership that they should be expecting a strong education reform package, a tax relief package, and a Medicare and Social Security reform package and a package to help pay the folks in the military more money.

Not one— I mean not one—be left behind.

We're all accountable to one another.

Let us begin the work we were hired to do and leave this a better place than we found it.

Where there is suffering, there is duty. Americans in need are not strangers, they are citizens, not problems, but priorities.

This work continues. This story goes on. And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.

Americans are generous and strong and decent, not because we believe in ourselves, but because we hold beliefs beyond ourselves.

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

We do not accept this, and we will not allow it. Our unity, our union, is the serious work of leaders and citizens in every generation.

The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born.

When this spirit of citizenship is missing, no Government program can replace it.

...preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil.

I seek God's guidance and His blessings on our land and all our people.

I ask all Americans to join with me in prayer and thanksgiving.

Let us become a nation rich not only in material wealth but in ideals.

Americans in need are not strangers; they are citizens—not problems but priorities.

Encouraging responsibility is not a search for scapegoats; it is a call to conscience.

...that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States...

I, George Walker Bush do solemnly swear...

The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country.

...and will to the best of my ability...