SAWYER: Do you have one word for the Republican Party today?
DUBYA: You will exist in the future.

MAJOR GARRETT (Fox News): Do you think this could this be a larger Bush family effort [in Haiti]? Do you plan on enlisting either your brother or your father in any of the efforts?
DUBYA: They're going to want to help. The — and Laura went down there to analyze the PEPFAR program, since — and we've had an interest — certainly not quite as deep as Bill's. He and the Secretary of State have spent a lot of time down there. We care about it. I care about it because if you see a neighbor in need, it's important to help. And so if people do want to help, they ought to — they ought to dial up — one place to dial is our website, which is clintonbushhaitifund.org.

My mother calls me my fourth brother — calls him my fourth brother.

He is, uhh — you know, I've had a — my third conversation with him, and, uhh, I, I, I, I generally mean what I say, I, I — wish him all the very best. I've found him to be a very smart and engaging person.

And so we're going to have to work, like, with the Latino vote to say, we care about you, we hear you, and we share your values — faith and family, small businesses, military vets or, you know, disproportionate — more Latinos serve as a percentage of their — of population in the military than any other group, if I'm not mistaken.

There is one person who wishes he could be here today — and that's your former President, and America's Secretary of Defense, Bob Gates. You know, he's got an excused absence. It's not like he's over at the Dixie Chicken.

Clearly, this guy is going to bring a great sense of family to the White House. And I hope Laura and I did the same thing.

In Oklahoma, a lot of people don't unders — duh, don't know about health savings accounts, and one of the reason I've come down to this part of the country is because I do want people to understand they're available and they're good.

As you — talked about banks. Now, if you're a commercial bank in America and your deposit — and you have a deposit in a commercial bank in America, your deposit is insured by the federal government up to $100,000. And so, therefore, when you hear nervousness about your bank, you know, people start talking about how nervous they are about your bank's condition — the depositor must understand that the federal government through the FDIC stands behind the deposit up to $100,000. And therefore, which leads me to say that if you're a depositor, you're in — you're protected by the federal government.

This took us a while to get in this problem. There is no short-term solution. I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand. But the President doesn't have a magic wand. You just can't say, low gas.

And so the first question that anybody running for President gets: Is this a war? Or is this like law enforcement? Is it a — does this require full use of U.S. assets in order to protect the American people? As you know, I made the decision that it does require those assets. Secondly, that these are two very important fronts, both of which are important to the future of the country. And therefore, we got to succeed in both. Thirdly, one front right now is going better than the other, and that's Iraq, where we're succeeding, and our troops are coming home based upon success. And Afghanistan is a tough fight. It's a tough fight because, one, this is a state that had been just ravaged by previous wars, and there wasn't a lot of central government outreach to the people. Secondly, there is a tough enemy, and they're brutal, and they kill at the drop of a hat in order to affect behavior.

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

Yo, Harper! The President of Nigeria.

Now, one thing that's interesting — I think I'll you find this interesting, at least you'll play like it's interesting — is this. Should the Iranian regime — so I'm the guy who just talked about nukyular power, right? Should the Iranian regime — do they have the sovereign right to have civilian nukyular power? So, like, if I were you, that's what I'd ask me. And the answer is, yes, they do.

Where we see people suffer from forms of government that create hopelessness, or disease and hunger, and mosquito bites, that deny people a hopeful life, the United States must act under the theory, under the principle that to whom much is given, much is required.

DUBYA: First, I want to tell you how proud I am to be the President of a nation that — in which there's a lot of Philippine-Americans. They love America and they love their heritage. And I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the — of our Philippine-Americans when I eat dinner at the White House.
PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT ARROYO: Yes.
DUBYA: And the chef is a great person and a really good cook, by the way, Madam President.

Now, there are many doubters. I understand that, because there is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self government. I reject that notion.

I am honored to be here with the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, better known in the neighborhood as Señorita Arroz.

And I met a guy named Tom Sawner. Now, he's an old fighter pilot, which means, umm, there's no wall he can run through, you know, he's a, he's a, you know, he's a — he's a doer, an achiever, and he's got him a small business called Educational Options.

Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech.

The idea of trafficking human beings is abhorrent, and nobody in — any civilized person who accepts that, you know, is just — needs to have their head examined.

And this is a good test for them [the Iraqis]. And of course, routing out these folks who've burrowed in society, who take advantage of the ability to be criminals, or the ability to intimidate citizens, is going to take a while.

I thought it was important to welcome these champs here to the White House, so that, uhh — you know, it's, to encourage people to fish. There's nothin' better than fishin', I had a fantastic experience — uhh — with, uhh, Alton and our friend, umm, Charlie Pack. He was a — he was a famous local fisherman. And, uhh, he said, do you wanna go fishin' with a fella named Jones? I say yeah, I've never heard of him, there's a lotta people named Jones. It turns out the man I was fishin' with is the — wins the Bassmaster Classic.

I would say it's like — as I explained to this fellow here — that one of the lessons of the genocide in Rwanda was to take some of the early warnings signs seriously. Secondly, a clear lesson I learned in the museum was that outside forces that tend to divide people up inside their country are unbelievably counterproductive. In other words, people came from other countries — I guess you'd call them colonialists — and they pitted one group of people against another. And an early warning sign was — and it's hard to have seen it, I readily admit, but I'm talking earlier than 1994, and earlier than the '90s — was the fact that it become a habit to divide people based upon — you know, in this case, whether they were Tutsi or Hutu, which eventually led to exploitation. Secondly, I would tell my successor that the United States can play a very constructive role.

DUBYA: Reverend Al Sharpton, and his wife Dominique — Reverend, it's good to see you.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Daughter.
DUBYA: Daughter. Daughter. I don't get them right all the time. But thank you for coming. And, Dominique, you're sure a lot prettier than your father.

Most Americans feel overtaxed, and I promise you the Democrat Party is going to field a candidate who says I'm going to raise your tax.

What's going to matter is not the past, but the future when it comes to campaigns and if the Democrat Party feels like they can win an election by focusing on me, I think they'll be making a huge tactical mistake.

I think we're going to get a good bipartisan bill and so I applaud those Democrats. I'm not going after those Democrats. But there is a big part of the Democrat Party that is against giving our intelligence officers the tools necessary to protect America.

I'm so honored that mayors from around our country have come. First of all, I want to thank you all very much for serving. I've often said being mayor is a lot tougher than being President — I don't have to fill the potholes and empty the garbage.

He's asking me about the checkpoints I drove through and my impression about what it was like to drive through checkpoints. I can understand why the Palestinians are frustrated driving through checkpoints. I can also understand that until confidence is gained on both sides, why the Israelis would want there to be a sense of security. In other words, they don't want a state on their border from which attacks would be launched. I can understand that. Any reasonable person can understand that.