George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bushis an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. The eldest son of Barbara and George H. W. Bush, he was born in New Haven, Connecticut. After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, he worked in oil businesses. He married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives shortly thereafter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth6 July 1946
CityNew Haven, CT
CountryUnited States of America
I expect violence because there's a group of terrorists and killers who want to try to stop the advance of democracy in Iraq,
I expect violence, because there's a group of terrorists and killers who want to try to stop the advance of democracy in Iraq,
Their efforts are a tribute to democracy and an example that difficult problems can be solved peacefully through debate, negotiation and compromise.
The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.
It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.
As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.
Every American should have absolute control over his or her personal information
Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.
”Iraq and Afghanistan …are now democracies and they are allies in the cause of freedom and peace.”
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.
Some who call themselves realists question whether the spread of democracy in the Middle East should be any concern of ours. But the realists in this case have lost contact with a fundamental reality: America has always been less secure when freedom is in retreat; America is always more secure when freedom is on the march.
I want the Iraqis to understand that we are with them and that they have to make tough decisions, and we'll help them make those tough decisions for this country, for this democracy to survive. And they've made some tough decisions.
The stakes are geopolitical in nature and I believe that democracies are - people want to live in free societies, democracies are the best way to do that, and that if people see democracies in the neighborhood, they'll demand the same thing.
Where we find young democracies, we need to help them. Where we find the enemy, we need to fight them. And that's exactly the Bush policy.