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Addresses and Remarks
See also Bill Signings
Florida, National Training Conference on Human Trafficking in
Tampa--1309
Michigan, remarks in Marquette--1260
Minnesota, remarks in Duluth--1266
Pennsylvania
Lancaster, remarks--1237
York, remarks--1247
Radio address--1253
Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge--1254
Wisconsin
Ashwaubenon, remarks--1299
Fond du Lac, discussion--1279
Waukesha, remarks--1272
Bill Signings
AGOA Acceleration Act of 2004, remarks--1258
Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act, remarks--1305
Communications to Congress
Budget amendments, letter transmitting--1305
Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States
Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, letter on funding--1312
Communications to Congress--Continued
Netherlands-U.S. convention on taxation, message transmitting
protocol--1313
U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement, message transmitting legislation
to implement--1308
Interviews With the News Media
Exchanges with reporters
Oshkosh, WI--1298
West Bend, WI--1279
Joint Statements
United States of America and Mongolia--1307
Meetings With Foreign Leaders
Mongolia, President Bagabandi--1307
Statements by the President
Congress
Passage of the ``Project BioShield Act of 2004''--1299
Senate action to block a constitutional amendment on marriage--
1299
Supplementary Materials
Acts approved by the President--1315
Checklist of White House press releases--1315
Digest of other White House announcements--1313
Nominations submitted to the Senate--1315
Editor's Note: The President was in Beckley, WV, on July 16, the
closing date of this issue. Releases and announcements issued by the
Office of the Press Secretary but not received in time for inclusion in
this issue will be printed next week.
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Week Ending Friday, July 16, 2004
Remarks in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
July 9, 2004
The President. Thank you all for coming. Thanks for having me.
Please be seated, unless, of course, you don't have a seat. [Laughter]
What a spectacular drive in here. As you know, we're on a bus, and it's
hard to park a bus in a small parking lot, by the way. [Laughter] But we
drove through this beautiful countryside and saw thousands of your
fellow citizens there. They were so warm and gracious in their
hospitality. I'm sorry they're all not here so I can thank them in
person. Hopefully, somebody is recording this on a TV camera so they'll
hear my thanks. But it is a really--what a special part of the world.
And thanks for having me.
I'm here to talk about the fact that I'd like to be reelected
President for a reason. You know, I love holding the office. It's--got a
nice airplane to fly on and--[laughter]--housing is good. [Laughter] But
I want to serve for 4 more years because I want the country to be safer,
stronger, and better. I have a reason to ask for your vote.
And I'm going to spend a lot of time in Pennsylvania because I want
to carry Pennsylvania this time. It's an important State. And we're
going to--and we're going to.
I'm sorry that Laura is not with me. She's a fabulous First Lady, a
great wife, and a wonderful mother--of my daughter, Jenna, who is
traveling with me today, University of Texas grad. How about that--in 4
years. [Laughter] Laura sends her best. She's campaigning herself. She
is a--she's come to realize what I know in that you can make a
difference in people's lives in so many different ways in the positions
that we're honored to hold.
I remember the time she gave the Afghan radio address--radio
address, my radio address, and talked about women in Afghanistan. And it
was such a comforting and reassuring voice, I'm sure, for the women
there who had been so brutalized by the Taliban to hear the First Lady
speak. But the feedback from the radio address was really good. And
she--I remember her coming back upstairs in the White House and saying,
``Gosh, they heard me.'' People heard that somebody in America cares for
them, that when we talk about young girls in America and our desire for
them to be able to realize their dreams, we also said the same thing
about young girls in Afghanistan. And that message resonated. And Laura
was the messenger, and it made such a difference to those ladies and
women in Afghanistan who heard her voice that it, in return, made a
great difference for her. She knows what I know: One, it's a honor to
serve our country; and secondly, you have an opportunity to affect
people's lives in a positive way. And that's exactly what she's doing.
I want to thank Joe Pitts for introducing me. Joe is a good, strong,
solid United States Congressman with a lot of integrity and a lot of
decency, and I'm proud to serve with him. I just want to thank you, Joe,
very much.
I'm traveling with the United States senior Senator Arlen Specter.
I'm proud to be traveling with him. I hope he wins, and I'd like you to
support him. We discarded Santorum somewhere up the road. [Laughter]
Actually, he's off to York to greet us there, which is our next stop.
I want to thank very much members of the statehouse who are here,
particularly State Senator Noah Wenger. I'm honored you're here,
senator. Thank you for coming. I also want to thank--thanks for being
here. State Senator Charlie Dent, who has tossed his hat in the ring for
the United States Congress, is traveling today, as is congressional
candidate Scott Paterno. Thank you for coming, Scott, appreciate you
being here.
I know we've got some grassroots activists who are here. Those are
the people who are actually going to turn out the vote and do all the
work. My job is to set the vision and
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explain to people what I want to do for 4 more years. And the grassroots
activists' jobs are to find those who are willing to vote. I think
there's a lot of potential voters here, at least it seems like it. There
was a lot of signs on the road--[laughter]--a lot of friendly waves. So
I hope you garner them up and remind them that we all have a duty to do
in a democracy and get them to the polls, turn them out, register
people. We've got a web site, georgewbush.com, which is a place where
you can sign up and get some marching orders and gives you something to
do if you're interested in helping in the campaign.
I spend a lot of time thanking people who are campaigning on our
behalf because I know it's hard work and it takes time out of your busy
lives. And so the first thing I want to do is, for those who are willing
to help Dick Cheney and me, I want to thank you very much for what
you're doing. It makes a difference. And I'm confident--I'm confident
our work will pay off come November 2d of this year.
You're probably wondering why would you--I mean, I imagine we could
have drawn thousands of people. As a matter of fact, tonight in York, we
are going to have a giant crowd. But why would you forgo a big crowd to
come to this entrepreneurial haven to talk about the issues confronting
the country? And the answer is, is because this is a perfect example of
what I try to talk about when it comes to the economy. That's why I'm
here. I'm here because our country's economy is strong, because the
entrepreneurial spirit is strong. And the entrepreneurial spirit is
alive and well in this company, see. This is a small business that
succeeds because the owners and the fellow workers work hard to make it
succeed. It doesn't succeed because of business--I mean Government. It
succeeds because of the business acumen of the people running this
enterprise.
And so I want to thank very much the Lapp family for their
hospitality. I am honored that you would host me today. It's not easy to
host people called President. [Laughter] It's just about--5 buses, 4
vans, 200 policemen, and here we are. [Laughter]
I want to thank Greg and Tim. Those are the Lapp boys. They bought
the business from their dad, who is with us as well, and Mom. Thank you
all for being here. It was a wise decision. There's nothing wrong with a
couple of brothers following in a father's footsteps. [Laughter]
I told you one of the things I'm running for is to make the country
stronger. A strong country really starts with having a country which
economy is healthy. That's a strong country. If you got a strong
economy, you've got a strong country. It means people are able to work.
We had a tough time for a while, because the country was in
recession. That means it wasn't growing. It means it was going
backwards. It means employees were wondering whether or not they were
going to be working the next day. It means small-business owners are
wondering whether or not they want to invest capital at all. In other
words, you don't grow unless you invest capital. People were nervous
during the recession.
Then we got attacked, and I'm going to talk a little bit about
making America safer. But we got attacked on September the 11th. It hurt
our economy. In other words, you're in a recession; then we have an
attack. And the attack cost us a lot. It cost us dollars. It reminded us
that the world has changed dramatically from the world that we thought
we lived in. It was a tough moment in the history of this country. Yet
it was a moment that we were able to overcome, because the great
strength of America is the people of the country. They refused to be
intimidated by terrorists. The entrepreneurs of our country, although
set back some, still had that spirit within them, the desire to grow
their businesses and to provide employment opportunities for people.
Then we discovered something else which hurt us, and that was that
some of our citizens forgot to tell the truth, that they were given
positions of responsibility and they weren't responsible citizens. And
we uncovered corporate scandals. And we acted, by the way. Instead of
wringing our hands trying to figure out what to do, we got together with
the Congress, passed tough laws. The message is clear now that we will
not tolerate dishonesty in the boardrooms of America, that we expect
responsible behavior for those who are in positions of responsibility.
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And then another subject I'll talk about here in a minute: I made
some tough decisions to defend the country, and we went to war. During a
period of war, it's hard for the economy to grow because people don't
feel confident. The concept of war is negative, not positive. I don't
know if you remember, but we used to have on our TV screens ``March to
War.'' And if you're a small-business owner or a big-business owner,
when you're thinking you're marching to war, there's a sense of
uncertainty with that. People don't want to invest in an uncertain
environment.
All these became hurdles for our economy. We overcame them. I'm
confident one of the reasons we overcame them is because we cut the
taxes on the people who work in America. We let people keep more of
their own money. I say we overcame them--you'd expect me to say that;
it's an election year. But others say it too. After all, the economy is
strong right now. It's growing and getting stronger. Obviously, there's
more to do, but it's growing. Listen, we added 1.5 million jobs since
last August. That's a good sign.
Pennsylvania's unemployment rate is 5.1 percent. That's good news
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