George W. Bush in Reuters
On Education:
$1.3B to help students in college-prep math & science
Bush proposed a $1 billion fund to pair states with universities in an effort to strengthen math & science education, and a $1,000 increase in individual Pell Grants to encourage high school students to take advanced college preparation courses in both
subjects. "There's no reason for us to be next to last in the world in math. There's no reason for us to be last in physics," Bush said. He'd offer $345 million in added incentives for math & science majors to teach in schools with low-income students.
Source: Patricia Wilson (Reuters) LA Times
Jun 20, 2000
On Foreign Policy:
Cuba: Increased trade would help Castro
Says economic sanctions on the regime of longtime Cuban strongman Fidel Castro should remain in place. "I really think we should keep the pressure on," Bush said. "I'm worried that increased trade would only enhance a totalitarian regime."
Source: Av Harris, Reuters
Aug 1, 1999
On Families & Children:
Filter - or avoid - media that romanticizes violence
After the Littleton, Colorado, shootings, Bush blamed popular culture for ‘romanticizing violence.' He said he favored parental filtering devices for television and the Internet, but said the best solution was simply not to watch violent shows.
Source: Reuters
Apr 21, 1999
On Gun Control:
Raise legal age for guns to 21; ban certain ammo
Bush said he supported efforts in the Republican-led Congress to raise the legal age for purchase of a handgun to 21 from 18 and to ban large ammunition clips.
Source: Reuters, "Bush favors raising."
Aug 27, 1999
On Gun Control:
$1.6M TX campaign, "Gun Crime Means Hard Time."
Announced he was allocating $1.6 million in state funds to a new initiative to crack down on gun crime. Bush said $1.28 million will be used to pay for the appointment of eight special prosecutors who will vigorously prosecute criminals who use guns
within the framework of existing laws. Another $360,000 will be used to fund a public awareness campaign aimed at reducing gun violence under the slogan "Gun Crime Means Hard Time."
Source: Hilary Hylton, Reuters
Sep 21, 1999
On Tax Reform:
Praises Congress' $792 billion tax cut
Bush praised Republicans in Congress for passing a $792 billion tax cut bill. "Prosperity is not a given," Bush said, "I'm for the tax cut, once we meet our basic needs, because I want our economy to continue to grow."
Source: Av Harris, Reuters
Aug 1, 1999
On War & Peace:
Paul O'Neill: Bush planned to overthrow Saddam before 9/11
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said he never saw any evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction-President Bush's main justification for going to war.In a new book chronicling his rocky two-year tenure and in an interview with CBS's "60
Minutes", O'Neill said removing Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was a top priority at Bush's very first National Security Council meeting-within days of the inauguration and eight months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
O'Neill told CBS the discussion
of Iraq continued at the next National Security Council meeting two days later and that he was given internal memos, including one outlining a "Plan for post-Saddam Iraq."
"In the 23 months I was there, I never saw anything that I would characterize
as evidence of weapons of mass destruction," O'Neill told Time magazine in a separate interview. "There were allegations and assertions by people... To me there is a difference between real evidence and everything else."
Source: [X-ref O'Neill] Adam Entous, Reuters, on AOL News
Jan 11, 2004
On War & Peace:
Kerry flip-flopping again on war
On the Iraq war, the Bush campaign has been pressuring Kerry to say whether he would have still voted for the war given the fact that no weapons of mass destruction were found. Bush maintains the world is still better off without Saddam Hussein in power.
Kerry on Monday said he would have voted to give the president authorization to use force against Iraq "but I would have used that authority effectively." Bush and his aides said that was evidence of Kerry flip-flopping from an anti-war stance. "Now,
almost two years after he voted for the war in Iraq, and almost 220 days after switching positions to declare himself the anti-war candidate, my opponent has found a new nuance. He now agrees it was the right decision to go into Iraq."
Kerry's campaign
national security adviser responded, "The issue has never been whether we were right to hold Saddam accountable, the issue is that we went to war without our allies, without properly equipping our troops and without a plan to win the peace."
Source: Steve Holland, Reuters
Aug 10, 2004
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