George W. Bush vs. Mitch McConnell

"I thought the Iraqis were Muslims."

"I'm for an immigration policy that's welcoming."

"This is something the world should know about. Some have tried to pose a choice between American ideals and American interests — between who we are and how w…"

"Secondly, you are blessed to live in the greatest Nation – ever. Here you can strive and succeed as far as you dare to dream. It says something about our cou…"

"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them."

"People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or he…"

"I understand not everybody agrees with the decisions I've made, but that's not unique to Central or South America. Truth of the matter is, there's people who…"

"Lacking the military strength to challenge us directly, the terrorists have chosen the weapon of fear. When they murder children at a school in Beslan or blo…"

"Our public interest depends on private character, on civic duty and family bonds and basic fairness, on uncounted, unhonored acts of decency which give direc…"

"Jazz, often called America's classical music, so influenced our culture that Americans named a decade after it. Like the country of its birth, jazz blends ma…"

"You have lifted a shadow of fear for many families. God bless you and may God bless the victims."

"In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not s…"

"The state can do what they want to do. Don't try to trap me in this state's issue like you're trying to get me into."

"The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free."

"These sources of strength are also in the faith that sustains so many of us. Across the town of Blacksburg and in towns all across America, houses of worship…"

"Any suggestion that a segregated past was acceptable or positive is offensive and it is wrong. Recent comments by Senator Lott do not reflect the spirit of o…"

"The most powerful force in the world is not a weapon or a nation but a truth: that we are spiritual beings, and that freedom is "the soul's right to breathe."

"In other words, words can be empty and all that does is just reinforce the bad behavior of tyrants."

"There are some who feel like that, uh, if they, attack us? That we may decide to leave prematurely. They don't understand what they're talking about, if that…"

"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun."