George W. Bush

Good morning. As all Americans know, recent weeks have brought a second wave of terrorist attacks upon our country. Deadly anthrax spores sent through the U.S. mail.

We concluded a historic agreement on nuclear power. It's not an easy job for the Prime Minister to achieve this agreement. I understand it's not easy for the American president to achieve this agreement, but it's a necessary agreement.

Today begins a new era, a new time in public education in our country. As of this hour, America's schools will be on a new path of reform and a new path of results.

And so what this bill says, it says every child can learn. And we want to know early before it's too late whether or not a child has a problem in learning. I understand taking tests aren't fun. Too bad. We need to know in America. We need to know whether or not children have got the basic education.

Public schools are Americans' great hope and making them work for every child. is America's great duty.

Compassionate conservatism places great hope and confidence in public education.

While all can enter our schools, many, too many, are not learning there.

The new education reforms we have passed in Washington give the federal government a new role in public education.

It is conservative to let local communities chart their own path to excellence. It is compassionate to insist that every child learns so that no child is left behind.

I believe that today's children will one day take their driver's test in a hydrogen-powered, pollution-free car.

Today, I announce a new plan to extend a human presence across our solar system with human missions to Mars and to worlds beyond.

In the park, had I been there, I'd have reminded people today's Earth Day.

We didn't create this Earth, but we have an obligation to protect it. One of the interesting things about our nation... is that since 1970, the air's cleaner and the water's more pure, and we're using our land better, and our economy's grown a lot.

We didn't create this earth, but we have an obligation to protect it. One of the interesting things about our nation is that since 1970, the air is cleaner and the water is more pure and we're using our land better.

This nation does not have to choose between a strong economy and a clean environment.

I'm pleased to be here at Guernsey Office Products. Thank you very much, David, for being an entrepreneur, a dreamer, a doer.

My first question as a small business owner is, what are you going to do about it, President Bush? I paid my mortgage. I paid my bills. What are you doing? You're terrible at this.

We're engineering cold-tolerant elephants using DNA from ancient, extinct woolly mammoths to help us with climate change.

There aren't that many solutions that address the gigantic amount of carbon that could be released in the form of methane from the Arctic. We're concerned about both Keeping that carbon in the ground frozen, which means it would be nice to have cold-resistant elephants stomp down the snow and allow the minus 40 winter wind to come in and cool down the permafrost and knock down the trees.

And elephants are one of the few animals in the world that will knock down trees. Got it. They love knocking down trees.

And restoring the grasslands and the vibrant ecosystem that came along with them.

Oh, right. Kleenex. Kleenex.

The woolly mammoth and the Asian elephant are very closely related. We can engineer them to be compatible with genetic engineering tools.

We could show you some elephant cells.

These are very precious cells that took us years to develop. Wow, interesting.

Well, the cells could conceivably contribute to changing the genome of an elephant.

We all know what a tire fire looks like, and this is not it.

I don't get economic policy from my bishops or my cardinals or from my pope. I think religion ought to be about making us better as people and less about things that end up getting into the political realm.

Our faith and our moral traditions, it is really the moral foundation of our country, the greatest country on the face of the earth. This conscience should also be respected when people of faith want to take a stand for traditional marriage.

You know, quit sending in sophisticated equipment that's killing our citizens. Stop exporting terror. The international community is serious about continuing to isolate Iran.

Many hospitals tell people, you've got AIDS. We can't help you. Go home and die. In an age of miraculous medicines, no person should have to hear those words.