THE ON ECONOMY:
To bring our economy out of recession, we delivered the largest tax relief in a
generation.
ON THE ECONOMY:
Our first goal is clear: We must have an economy that grows fast enough to
employ every man and woman who seeks a job.
ON THE ECONOMY:
After recession, terrorist attacks, corporate scandals and stock market
declines, our economy is recovering. Yet it is not growing fast enough, or
strongly enough.
ON THE ECONOMY:
Jobs are created when the economy grows; the economy grows when Americans have
more money to spend and invest; and the best and fairest way to make sure
Americans have that money is not to tax it away in the first place.
ON THE ECONOMY:
This tax relief is for everyone who pays income taxes, and it will help our
economy immediately. Ninety-two million Americans will keep this year an average
of almost $1,100 more of their own money. A family of four with an income of
$40,000 would see their federal income taxes fall from $1,178 to $45 per year.
ON THE ECONOMY:
We should also strengthen the economy by treating investors equally in our tax
laws. It's fair to tax a company's profits. It is not fair to again tax the
shareholder on the same profits.
ON THE ECONOMY:
Lower taxes and greater investment will help this economy expand. More jobs mean
more taxpayers and higher revenues to our government.
ON THE ECONOMY:
A growing economy and a focus on essential priorities will be crucial to the
future of Social Security. As we continue to work together to keep Social
Security sound and reliable, we must offer younger workers a chance to invest in
retirement accounts that they will control and they will own.
ON THE ECONOMY:
I urge you to pass these measures for the good of both our environment and our
economy.
ON WEAPONS:
The budget I send you will propose almost $6 billion to quickly make available
effective vaccines and treatments against agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin,
ebola and plague. We must assume that our enemies would use these diseases as
weapons, and we must act before the dangers are upon us.
ON WEAPONS:
Today, the gravest danger in the war on terror, the gravest danger facing
America and the world, is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical
and biological weapons.
ON WEAPONS:
These regimes could use such weapons for blackmail, terror and mass murder. They
could also give or sell those weapons to terrorist allies, who would use them
without the least hesitation.
ON WEAPONS:
Now, in this century, the ideology of power and domination has appeared again
and seeks to gain the ultimate weapons of terror.
ON IRAQ:
We have called on the United Nations to fulfill its charter and stand by its
demand that Iraq disarm. We are strongly supporting the International Atomic
Energy Agency in its mission to track and control nuclear materials around the
world. We are working with other governments to secure nuclear materials in the
former Soviet Union and to strengthen global treaties banning the production and
shipment of missile technologies and weapons of mass destruction.
ON IRAN:
Different threats require different strategies. In Iran we continue to see a
government that represses its people, pursues weapons of mass destruction and
supports terror.
ON IRAN:
We also see Iranian citizens risking intimidation and death as they speak out
for liberty and human rights and democracy. Iranians, like all people, have a
right to choose their own government, and determine their own destiny, and the
United States supports their aspirations to live in freedom.
ON WEAPONS:
On the Korean Peninsula, an oppressive regime rules a people living in fear and
starvation. Throughout the 1990s, the United States relied on a negotiated
framework to keep North Korea from gaining nuclear weapons. We now know that
that regime was deceiving the world and developing those weapons all along.
ON WEAPONS:
America is working with the countries of the region -- South Korea, Japan, China
and Russia -- to find a peaceful solution and to show the North Korean
government that nuclear weapons will bring only isolation, economic stagnation
and continued hardship.
ON IRAQ:
Our nation and the world must learn the lessons of the Korean Peninsula and not
allow an even greater threat to rise up in Iraq. A brutal dictator, with a
history of reckless aggression, with ties to terrorism, with great potential
wealth will not be permitted to dominate a vital region and threaten the United
States.
ON WEAPONS:
Twelve years ago, Saddam Hussein faced the prospect of being the last casualty
in a war he had started and lost. To spare himself, he agreed to disarm of all
weapons of mass destruction.
ON WEAPONS:
For the next 12 years, he systematically violated that agreement. He pursued
chemical, biological and nuclear weapons even while inspectors were in his
country.
ON WEAPONS:
Nothing to date has restrained him from his pursuit of these weapons: not
economic sanctions, not isolation from the civilized world, not even cruise
missile strikes on his military facilities.
ON IRAQ:
The 108 U.N. inspectors were sent to conduct -- were not to sent conduct a
scavenger hunt for hidden materials across a country the size of California. The
job of the inspectors is to verify that Iraq's regime is disarming.
ON IRAQ:
It is up to Iraq to show exactly where it is hiding its banned weapons, lay
those weapons out for the world to see and destroy them as directed. Nothing
like this has happened.
ON WEAPONS:
The United Nations concluded in 1999 that Saddam Hussein had biological weapons
materials sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax; enough doses to
kill several million people. He hasn't accounted for that material. He has given
no evidence that he has destroyed it.
ON IRAQ:
U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000 munitions
capable of delivering chemical agents. Inspectors recently turned up 16 of them,
despite Iraq's recent declaration denying their existence. Saddam Hussein has
not accounted for the remaining 29,984 of these prohibited munitions. He has
given no evidence that he has destroyed them.
ON IRAQ:
From three Iraqi defectors we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had several
mobile biological weapons labs. These are designed to produce germ warfare
agents and can be moved from place to a place to evade inspectors. Saddam
Hussein has not disclosed these facilities. He has given no evidence that he has
destroyed them.
ON WEAPONS:
The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam
Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a
nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium
for a bomb.
ON WEAPONS:
Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength
aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production.
ON IRAQ:
The dictator of Iraq is not disarming. To the contrary, he is deceiving.
ON IRAQ:
From intelligence sources, we know, for instance, that thousands of Iraqi
security personnel are at work hiding documents and materials from the U.N.
inspectors, sanitizing inspection sites and monitoring the inspectors
themselves.
ON IRAQ:
Iraqi officials accompany the inspectors in order to intimidate witnesses. Iraq
is blocking U-2 surveillance flights requested by the United Nations.
ON IRAQ:
Iraqi intelligence officers are posing as the scientists inspectors are supposed
to interview. Real scientists have been coached by Iraqi officials on what to
say.
ON IRAQ:
Intelligence sources indicate that Saddam Hussein has ordered that scientists
who cooperate with U.N. inspectors in disarming Iraq will be killed, along with
their families.
ON WEAPONS:
Year after year, Saddam Hussein has gone to elaborate lengths, spent enormous
sums, taken great risks to build and keep weapons of mass destruction. But why?
ON WEAPONS:
The only possible explanation, the only possible use he could have for those
weapons, is to dominate, intimidate or attack.
ON WEAPONS:
With nuclear arms or a full arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, Saddam
Hussein could resume his ambitions of conquest in the Middle East and create...