My favorite lines fr…

My favorite lines from Ahnold’s speech last night.

To think that a once scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become Governor of California and stand in Madison Square Garden to speak on behalf of the President of the United States that is an immigrant’s dream. It is the American dream.

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To my fellow immigrants listening tonight, I want you to know how welcome you are in this party. We Republicans admire your ambition. We encourage your dreams. We believe in your future. One thing I learned about America is that if you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

It’s often said that the Republican party stands for the greedy and the rich. What it actually stands for is the opportunity to work hard and become rich if that’s what you want. And the party doesn’t abandon you and demonize you once you get there.

My fellow immigrants, my fellow Americans, how do you know if you are a Republican? I’ll tell you how.

If you believe that government should be accountable to the people, not the people to the government…then you are a Republican! If you believe a person should be treated as an individual, not as a member of an interest group… then you are a Republican! If you believe your family knows how to spend your money better than the government does… then you are a Republican! If you believe our educational system should be held accountable for the progress of our children … then you are a Republican! If you believe this country, not the United Nations, is the best hope of democracy in the world … then you are a Republican! And, ladies and gentlemen …if you believe we must be fierce and relentless and terminate terrorism … then you are a Republican!

That sounded like Ronald Reagan speaking from beyond the grave.

There is another way you can tell you’re a Republican. You have faith in free enterprise, faith in the resourcefulness of the American people … and faith in the U.S. economy. To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: “Don’t be economic girlie men!”

OK, not so Reagan-esque in word choice, but a great sentiment nonetheless

The President didn’t go into Iraq because the polls told him it was popular. As a matter of fact, the polls said just the opposite. But leadership isn’t about polls. It’s about making decisions you think are right and then standing behind those decisions. That’s why America is safer with George W. Bush as President.

He knows you don’t reason with terrorists. You defeat them. He knows you can’t reason with people blinded by hate. They hate the power of the individual. They hate the progress of women. They hate the religious freedom of others. They hate the liberating breeze of democracy. But ladies and gentlemen, their hate is no match for America’s decency.

A succinct description of the difference between Bush’s approach to the War on Terror and the law-enforcement approach Kerry prefers.

Ladies and gentlemen, America is back! Back from the attack on our homeland — back from the attack on our economy, back from the attack on our way of life. We’re back because of the perseverance, character and leadership of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush.

To many Democrats, this will come as breaking news; the economy was tanking when Dubya was inaugurated, and 9/11 hit it especially hard. Yes jobs have been lost in the totality of Bush’s time in office, but you can’t blame him for what he inherited and for the effects of the attack. But tax cuts have given folks the wherewithal to recover from it.

Our president, George W. Bush, has worked hard to protect and preserve the American dream for all of us. That’s why I say … send him back to Washington for four more years!

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