    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2004, Book II)]
    [September 9, 2004]
    [Pages 1962-1970]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Remarks in Colmar, Pennsylvania
    September 9, 2004

        The President. Thank you all for coming. Thank you all very much.
    Please be seated. Thank you all for coming. Thanks for the welcome. It's
    good to be back in Pennsylvania--again. It just seems like I was here
    yesterday. [Laughter] I was--[laughter]--kind of. But I'm glad to be
    here. I really appreciate you all coming out. Spirits are high. I'm
    feeling great about life.
        I really appreciate being here at Byers Choice. Thank you all for
    your hospitality. You sure know how to make a President feel welcome.
    We're here because I want to talk about the economy some and a plan to
    keep this economy moving forward so people can realize their dreams. And
    it's such a wonderful place to come because the entrepreneurial spirit
    here is strong.

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        This is a company that was formed by Bob and
    Joyce Byers----

    [At this point, there was a disturbance in the audience.]

        Audience members. Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!
        The President. We are here--I appreciate you coming to Byers. It's
    such an honor to meet Bob and Joyce Byers. They are--they had a dream, and they wanted to build a
    small company into a large company, and they've done so. They started
    their company in the 1960s. They found a good idea--they thought of the
    idea. Government didn't think of the idea. They did. They decided to
    take risk. They hired people wisely. They invested wisely, and their
    company is growing. And I appreciate the contribution they've made.
        They've got a fantastic customer base, because they----

    [The disturbance continued.]

        Audience members. Boo-o-o!
        Audience members. Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!
        The President. We are here because the entrepreneurial spirit is
    strong, because there is an optimism in this room that says it can
    remain stronger. The Byers
    have got a significant customer base, which means they understand how to
    run a business, and my mother is one of their
    customers. [Laughter]
        And so what we're going to talk about today is our economy and how
    to keep it growing and how to make sure the entrepreneurial spirit is
    strong so people can realize their dreams. Today I want to discuss with
    you the plan I have to keep us on the path to growth and opportunity, a
    plan that I'm convinced that when Americans listen to, they'll put me
    and Dick Cheney back in office for 4 more years.
        So I told Laura I was coming here, and she
    said, ``Give everybody my best.'' She's great. She's a fantastic mom and
    a great wife. She is a wonderful First Lady. So when I asked her to
    marry me, she said, ``Fine, just so long as I don't have to give any
    political speeches.'' [Laughter] I said, ``Okay, you won't have to give
    a speech.'' Fortunately, she didn't hold me to that promise. She gave a
    great speech the other night. People got to see her heart and her
    compassion.
        I appreciate Congressman Jim Greenwood a lot. I must confess to you that when I heard he was
    retiring, I got a little mad at him, because I've enjoyed working with
    him. He is a good, decent, honorable man. And I appreciate you.
        I appreciate the fact that Arlen Specter
    is with us today. I hope you put him back into office for 6 more years.
    There he is. I enjoy working with Arlen. He's a good, independent
    thinker, and he's a good--fine United States Senator, and we'll work
    well together during the next 4 years.
        I want to thank Pat Toomey for joining
    us today as well. He's a class act. I appreciate--I told this to Pat on
    Air Force One, I said, ``I appreciate the way he handled himself after a
    tough primary.'' He's coming together. He's working for the ticket, and
    that shows what kind of guy he is. And I'm honored you're here, Pat.
        Where is Mayor Joe? Mr. Mayor. Thank
    you for coming, Mr. Mayor. I'm proud you're here. [Applause] Yes. I
    always like to stay in touch with the local power. [Laughter] Sure
    enough, there he is. Thanks for coming, Mayor. I appreciate you being
    here.
        Mike Fitzpatrick is with us
    today. I appreciate you coming, Mike. Appreciate you being here. Tom
    Corbett is with us today. Appreciate
    you coming, Tom. Good luck. I want to thank all the candidates who are
    here and the grassroots activists. I'm traveling your State and
    traveling the country to ask people not only for the vote but for their
    help. And I hope you go register voters, find people to show up to the
    polls. We have a duty in America to vote and--so thanks for the work
    you're doing. And when you get them to the polls, headed

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    to the polls, remind them, if they want a safer America, a stronger
    America, and a better America, to put me and Dick Cheney back in there.
        Eunice Sanchez is with us. Where are you,
    Eunice? There she is. Thanks. And you've got your son and daughter.
    Thanks for coming. I met Eunice. She works for the Amachi mentoring
    program in Philadelphia. I don't know if you've heard of Amachi. I have.
    I have been fortunate enough to be briefed by the people that run that
    program. Amachi is a mentoring program for children with incarcerated
    parents. I want you to think about what this good American citizen does.
    She takes time out of her life to mentor a child to show there's love,
    the possibility of love. I tell the people of this country that the
    great strength of our country is the hearts and souls of the American
    citizens. That's really the true strength of America. And the reason
    I've asked--and the reason that Eunice has kindly come today is for me
    to hold her up as an example for others--for others to recognize that
    they can help change America, one heart and one soul at a time as well,
    that our society is a compassionate society because people from all
    walks of life put their arm around somebody who hurts and says, ``I love
    you, and what can I do to help you?'' I appreciate you coming, Eunice.
    God bless you, and thanks for coming.
        I'm looking forward to this--I'm looking forward to the campaign.
    I'm--there's some things I want to do for the next 4 years. [Laughter]
    And I'm looking forward to telling the people of the country where I
    stand and where I believe and where I'm going to lead the country. I'm
    running with a clear and positive plan to build a safer world and a more
    hopeful America. I'm running with what I call a compassionate
    conservative philosophy, that Government should help people improve
    their lives, not try to run their lives.
        I believe it's the job of a President to confront problems, not to
    pass them on to future Presidents and future generations. In the last 4
    years, we have confronted economic problems. We have got some short-term
    challenges that came from an economic downturn and a national emergency.
    We've got some long-term challenges because our economy is changing. In
    all these areas, we've acted, and we're moving forward. Today I want to
    talk to you about some of the plans we have.
        Remember the history. When you're out rounding up the vote, remind
    the people what we have been through. When Dick Cheney and I took office in January--on January 20th of 2001,
    our economy was heading into a recession, and the stock market had been
    declining for 5 months prior to our arrival. Our Nation faced some
    corporate scandals that cost people jobs and savings and shook our
    confidence. Today, it is absolutely clear that we're not going to
    tolerate dishonesty in the boardrooms of America.
        America was attacked. Our economy lost nearly a million jobs after
    that attack in just 3 months. We acted with a clear strategy. We
    unleashed the energy and innovative spirit of America with the largest
    tax relief in a generation. The tax relief provided small-business
    owners the resources and incentives they need to expand and grow and
    hire more workers. The entrepreneurial spirit is strong. The small-
    business sector of our economy is strong, and the tax relief helped
    strengthen it.
        We encouraged savings and investment by cutting taxes on dividends
    and capital gains. Tax relief put money in the hands of American workers
    so they could save for their retirement or for their home or for the
    education of their children. My philosophy is, Government sets
    priorities, funds its priorities, and lets the people keep as much money
    as possible. I think you can spend your money better than the Federal
    Government can.
        We increased the child credit and reduced the marriage penalty. The
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    ought to encourage marriage, not discourage marriage. And the results
    are clear. Our country has now seen 12 straight months of job gains.
    Over the past year, we've added 1.7 million jobs. That is more than
    Germany, Japan, Great Britain, Canada, and France combined. Unemployment
    is down to 5.4 percent. That is nearly a full point below the rate in
    the summer of 2003, and it is below the average of the 1970s, the 1980s,
    and the 1990s.
        Interest rates and mortgage rates are near historic lows. Our
    economy is growing at rates as fast as any in the last 20 years. The
    manufacturing sector is improving. When I took office, manufacturing
    employment had been declining for almost 3 years. In the last 6 months
    of the prior administration, more than 200,000 manufacturing jobs were
    lost. We're turning that around. Since January, America has added
    107,000 manufacturing jobs, including 22,000 last month alone. We are
    making steady progress for American workers.
        Because of the tax relief, the middle class is paying less in
    Federal taxes. The average family of four with an income of $40,000 got
    nearly a $2,000 tax cut. Real after-tax incomes are up almost 10 percent
    since December of 2000. People have got more money in their pockets
    because of the tax relief. Our economy is stronger because people are
    keeping more of what they earn.
        Listen, we also face long-term challenges in this economy. The
    workers of our parents' generation typically had one job, one skill, one
    career, often with one company that provided health care and a pension.
    That's the way it used to be. This world of ours is changing. By the
    way, most of those workers were men. Today, workers change jobs, even
    careers, many times during their lives. And in one of the most dramatic
    shifts our society has seen, two-thirds of all moms also work outside
    the home. This world of ours has changed. And yet, the institutions of
    Government haven't changed.
        Let me tell you what else has changed. Productivity has grown faster
    over the last 3 years than any time in more than 40 years, in part
    because technology is changing the way we do things. You'd rather use a
    computer than a typewriter. You'd rather use a backhoe than a shovel.
    [Laughter] That's productivity. But it also means that the same work can
    be done by fewer workers. And that creates a problem for someone looking
    for a job. That's why manufacturing still produces roughly the same
    share of our GDP but with a smaller share of the workforce. So these are
    some long-term challenges we face.
        But it's a time of great opportunity. A time of change creates great
    opportunity, so long as the Government takes the side of the workers and
    the families here in America, so long as Government recognizes this: Our
    fundamental systems, the Tax Code, health coverage, pension plans, and
    worker training, were created for the world of yesterday--think about
    that--not for tomorrow. I believe in the next 4 years, we've got to
    transform these systems to help our citizens, to help prepare our
    citizens, to help free citizens so they can realize the great dream of
    our country.
        And so you'll hear me talk a lot about changing systems to help
    people, not increasing Government to stifle dreams. Obviously, in order
    for people to realize their dreams, there has to be robust economic
    growth. In order to make sure that the productivity increases don't
    cause people not to be able to find a job, we got to grow this economy.
    And that's what I want to talk to you about right quick, a plan to make
    sure we continue to create jobs here in America.
        First of all, in order to have jobs here, America must be the best
    place in the world to do business. If you want people working here, it's
    got to be the best place to risk capital, the best place to expand, the
    best place to realize dreams. One way to make sure it's the best place
    to do business is to reduce the regulatory burden on

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    small businesses. You fill out a lot of paperwork if you're a small-
    business owner in America. I can't promise you anybody in Government
    ever reads it. [Laughter]
        We want jobs here in the Philadelphia area. We want to make sure the
    manufacturing sector is robust. Congress needs to get an energy plan to
    my desk now. I submitted a plan 2 years ago. It's a plan that encourages
    conservation, expands renewables, uses clean coal technologies. Listen,
    we must become less dependent on foreign sources of energy if we want
    jobs to remain in America.
        In order to keep jobs here so people can realize their dreams, we
    must open up markets for U.S. products. Listen, we've opened up our
    markets, and it's good for consumers we've opened up our markets. If you
    have more choices in the marketplace, you're likely to get the product
    you want at a better price and better quality. And so what I'm saying to
    countries like China is, ``Treat us the way we treat you.'' I believe
    American farmers and manufacturers and businessowners can compete with
    anybody, anywhere, anytime, so long as the rules are fair. What we will
    do is reject economic isolationism. Economic isolationism will hurt
    America's workers.
        In order to make sure we create jobs here, we've got to do something
    about these junk lawsuits that threaten employers. I believe strongly in
    legal reform, because I understand personal injury lawyers should not
    get richer at the expense of hard-working Americans and American
    entrepreneurs.
        Finally, in order to keep jobs here, we've got to be wise about how
    we spend your money and keep your taxes low. Running up the taxes on the
    entrepreneurs in America is bad economic policy.
        I told you there's some systems that need to change. One system that
    needs to change is the Federal Tax Code. It is too cumbersome. I tried
    to hold it the other day--[laughter]--when I was campaigning in
    Missouri. I'm in pretty good shape. It was hard to hold it. [Laughter]
    It's got a million words in it. It takes the American people 6 billion
    hours a year, every year, to file these forms. It is full of special
    interest loopholes. For the sake of economic growth and for the sake of
    fairness, we need to change the Tax Code. We need to make it simple and
    easy to understand.
        A changing world means that the skills necessary to fill the jobs of
    the 21st century are changing, and it's something we've got to
    recognize. And a changing economy is one that creates new opportunities.
    But sometimes there's a skills gap. And that's why I believe we ought to
    expand access to our community college systems, to make sure that the
    workers have the skills necessary to fill the jobs of the 21st century.
        As well most new jobs in a changing--this changing world require 2
    years of college. Yet only one in four of our students gets there. And
    so we need early intervention programs in our high schools to solve
    problems early, before they're too late. We need to have new focus on
    math and science. As the No Child Left Behind Act begins to fill the
    education pipeline with good readers, we will require a rigorous exam
    before graduation from high school. See, what I'm telling you is, by
    raising performance in high schools and expanding Pell grants for low-
    and middle-income families, we will help more Americans start their
    career with a college diploma.
        These are changing times, and our economy is changing. And there are
    communities around where manufacturing, textiles, and other jobs no
    longer exist. There are poor communities in our country that need help
    as well. And that's why, the other night at the convention, I announced
    American opportunity zones. These zones will provide tax relief and
    other incentives for new businesses to be created and to improve housing
    and job training and bringing hope. In other words, in changing times,
    there are ways to help communities that have suffered during changing
    times, with good tax policy, good regulation policy, and good housing
    policy.

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        Listen, in order to make sure jobs stay here, we've got to do
    something about health care. We need to make sure health care is
    available and affordable. Do you realize more than half the uninsured
    are employees of small businesses? Small businesses are having trouble
    affording health care. One way to help small businesses afford health
    care is to allow small firms to join together to purchase insurance at
    the discounts available to big companies.
        We will offer tax credits to encourage small businesses and their
    employees to set up health savings accounts. We'll provide direct help
    for low-income Americans to purchase health savings accounts. These
    accounts give workers the security of insurance against major illness,
    the opportunity to save tax-free for routine health expenses, and the
    freedom of knowing you can take your account with you whenever you
    change jobs or careers.
        I'm a big believer in community and rural health centers. These are
    facilities where low-income Americans can get primary care. I believe
    every poor county in America ought to have one of these facilities in
    order to take the pressure off emergency rooms around the United States.
        In order to make sure health care is available and affordable, we've
    got to do something about these frivolous lawsuits that are running good
    doctors out of practice and running up your health care costs. I
    appreciate working with Jim Greenwood on
    this issue. He figured it out, and I hope the people of this country
    figure it out. These frivolous lawsuits are making it awfully hard for a
    lot of docs to practice medicine. You're losing good docs. Greenwood was
    telling me about the doctor that saved his dad's life, had to leave
    practice because his premiums were too high. Many doctors, in order to
    avoid litigation, practice defensive medicine. In other words, they run
    up the costs of health care so if they ever get caught--pulled in front
    of a court of law, they've got a defense. It's costing the taxpayers
    about $28 billion a year; the defensive practice of medicine costs 28
    billion a year. We have a national problem, and it requires a national
    solution. I've submitted legislation that Greenwood got passed in the
    House. It's stuck in the Senate because the trial lawyers are powerful
    in the United States Senate.
        Audience members. Boo-o-o!
        The President. See, I don't think you can be pro-doctor, pro-
    patient, and pro-trial-lawyer at the same time. I think you have to
    choose. My opponent made his choice, and he put
    him on the ticket. I made my choice. I am for
    medical liability reform--now.
        I'm looking forward to the debate on health care. I'm looking
    forward to it. In all we do to improve health care in America, we'll
    make sure that health decisions are made by doctors and patients, not by
    bureaucrats in Washington, DC.
        Our labor laws need to change. We've got a lot of moms who are now
    in the workplace. And yet, it's really hard for moms to find enough time
    to do their duty as moms, see, because the rules--the labor laws are
    stuck in the past. I think we need to have flex-time and comp-time to
    allow families to be able to have more quality time.
        In a changing world, ownership can bring stability to your life. One
    of the most hopeful statistics of the last year or two has been that the
    homeownership rate is at an alltime high in America. There's more
    minority families who are opening up the door where they live and say,
    ``Welcome to my home. Come in to my house.'' It's a really important
    part of a future, when more and more people can own their home. We've
    got a plan to encourage homeownership in this country.
        And we've got to make sure that our pension systems work, the Social
    Security system works. If you're an older American, nothing will change.
    The Social Security trust will fulfill its promise to you. If you're a
    baby boomer, we're in pretty good shape when it comes to receiving the
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    of Social Security. But we need to worry about our children and
    grandchildren when it comes to Social Security. I believe younger
    workers ought to be able to take some of their taxes and set up a
    personal savings account, to make sure the Social Security promise
    that's made to them--an account that they can call their own, an account
    that Government cannot take away, and an account that they can pass on
    from one generation to the next.
        In these proposals, we seek not to provide a Government program but
    a greater path to opportunity and more freedom for you to decide what's
    best for your life and, therefore, I believe, more opportunity for every
    citizen. And we got a choice in this race. I mean, it's a clear choice.
    See, I believe our opponent's philosophy is very
    different from ours. If you carefully listen, he wants to expand
    Government. Listen to the proposals. That's what he wants to do. What we
    want to do is expand opportunity. He wants to give more power to
    Washington by raising taxes and spending more money, and he's got a
    record to match his promises. [Laughter]
        Over two decades in Washington, he has voted
    for higher income taxes, higher taxes on Social Security benefits.
    That's part of his record. He repeatedly voted for higher taxes on small
    businesses, higher taxes on gasoline. He voted against tax relief for
    married couples, for increasing the child credit, and against expanding
    tax-free retirement savings. We have a difference of opinion when it
    comes to taxation. If you drive a car, Senator Kerry has voted for
    higher taxes on you. If you have a job, he's voted for higher taxes on
    you. If you're married or have children, he's voted for higher taxes on
    you. The good news is, on the 2d of November, you have a chance to vote.
        Audience members. Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!
        The President. There is a reason for supporting higher taxes,
    because he wants to dramatically increase Government spending. It's part
    of his platform. On the campaign trail, he's
    proposed more than $2 trillion in new Federal spending so far.
    [Laughter] And we still have 54 more days to go. Now, he says he's going
    to pay for all that by raising taxes on the wealthiest 2 percent of the
    population. There's just one problem with that. My opponent's tax
    increases would bring only about $650 billion in revenue over the next
    10 years, see? And he wants to spend over 2 trillion. So you do the
    math. [Laughter] The plan leaves him more than $1.4 trillion short. And
    guess who would wind up paying the bill?
        Now, one of his key economic advisers--one of my opponent's key economic advisers is saying
    they won't give the details on how they would raise spending and lower
    the deficit until after the election. [Laughter] Well, if they want to
    hold back information until the people vote, you can bet it won't be
    good news for the taxpayers. But America will reject the hidden Kerry
    tax plan.
        Raising taxes will be bad for our economy. Raising taxes will be bad
    for the small-business sector of America. And I'll tell you why. Ninety
    percent of small-business owners pay tax at the individual income-tax
    level. Ninety percent of small-business owners are Subchapter S
    corporations or sole proprietorship. Byers Choice is a Subchapter S
    corporation. Now, if you're organized as a Subchapter S or sole
    proprietorship, when you pay your tax, you fill out the individual
    income-tax forms. And so when you talk about raising the top two
    brackets in the individual taxes, you're talking about taxing companies
    like Byers Choice. I don't see--and by the way, 70 percent of new jobs
    in America are created by small businesses. Why does it make sense to
    tax the job creators? It doesn't make sense to tax the job creators.
        Bob said this, he said, ``That would hurt my
    company.'' When he heard the plan to raise taxes to pay for promises,
    political promises, he said, ``That would hurt my

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    company. It would cut off jobs I plan to create.'' My opponent, by making political promises and by promising to tax
    small businesses such as Byers Choice, would hurt our economy. I believe
    in order to continue economic growth, we need an energy plan, good trade
    policy, good regulatory policy, good legal policy, good health policy,
    and we need to make the tax relief permanent.
        In order to make sure we have sustained economic growth, we will
    also continue to protect the homeland over the next 4 years. There's a
    lot of good people working hard on your behalf. And we reorganized the
    Department--departments to create the Department of Homeland Security so
    we can better talk to each other, better respond to crisis, better deal
    with emergency, better share intelligence. And we're getting better in
    Washington, DC, about doing what is necessary to protect you. And
    there's a lot of good people working hard to do so, and I appreciate it.
    As the 9/11 Commission said, ``America is safer but not yet safe.'' I
    agree. And so you just got to know there's some fine people at all
    levels of government working hard.
        But the best way to protect the homeland is to stay on the
    offensive, is to find the terrorists. You cannot talk sense to these
    people. You've seen how they behave. You saw the attacks of September
    the 11th. You saw what happened to those Russian schoolchildren. America
    must continue to lead the world. We will find them overseas so we do not
    have to face them here at home.
        We're making progress. We're making progress. Three-quarters of Al
    Qaida's known leadership has been brought to justice. Because we upheld
    doctrine that said, ``If you harbor a terrorist, you're equally as
    guilty as the terrorists,'' the Taliban are no longer in power in
    Afghanistan. Think about the progress in Afghanistan. It wasn't all that
    long ago that young girls weren't allow to go to school and their moms
    would be pulled in a public square and whipped if they didn't toe the
    line of these barbaric people. And today, Afghanistan is an ally in the
    war on terror. Over 10 million citizens have registered to vote in the
    upcoming Presidential election. Amazing, isn't it? Freedom is on the
    march in Afghanistan, and that's good for America.
        In Iraq, we removed a sworn enemy of America who had ties to terror
    and used weapons of mass destruction. Listen, I recognize we didn't find
    the stockpiles we all thought were there--all of us thought were there.
    But remember Saddam Hussein had the
    capability of making weapons. He could have passed that capability on to
    the enemy. And that's not a risk we could afford to take after September
    the 11th. Knowing what I know today, I would have made the same
    decision. America and the world are safer with Saddam in a prison cell.
        We're making progress there. I'm impressed by Prime Minister
    Allawi. He's a strong guy who believes that
    democracy is the future of Iraq, and he's got hard work to do. It wasn't
    all that long ago that people were brutalized by Saddam
    Hussein. But we're making progress. There
    will be elections in January of next year. It's amazing, when you think
    about it. They've gone from tyranny to elections in a brief period of
    time.
        Our goal in Iraq is to--like it is in Afghanistan--is to help
    provide enough stability so the political process can move forward, is
    to train Iraqis and Afghan citizens so they can do the hard work of
    defending their country against the few who want to thwart the desires
    of the many, is to put those countries on the path to stability and
    democracy as quickly as possible, and then bring our troops home.
        I'm oftentimes asked what I tell those who--the loved ones of those
    who lost their life in combat. I tell them this, I say, ``Your son or
    daughter or wife or husband is serving during historic times.'' These
    are times that will help make this world a more peaceful place. It's a
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    for little children to be able to--when we get it right--for children to
    grow up in a peaceful world. I tell them that in order to honor their
    memory, we will complete the mission.
        I say this: I believe in the power of liberty to transform lives.
    That's what I believe. The core of my belief is that liberty has got the
    incredible capacity to convert enemies to friends, tyrannical societies
    to free societies. And that makes the world more peaceful, a peace we
    all want.
        You know, I tell people about my meetings with Prime Minister
    Koizumi, the Prime Minister of Japan, who
    is the Prime Minister of a country that my dad fought against, your dads and grandfathers fought
    against. They were the sworn enemy of America some 60 years ago. And
    today, I sit down at the table with him to discuss peace. He's an ally
    in peace. And I'm able to do so because my predecessor Harry Truman and
    other American citizens believed that the enemy could become a friend if
    democracy took hold in Japan.
        Now, there was a lot of skeptics and doubters during those days, and
    you can understand why. We'd just been fighting these people. But
    because they believed in the power of liberty to transform lives, they
    helped Japan develop a self-governing democracy. And today, Japan is an
    ally when it comes to keeping the peace. The Prime Minister and I talk about North Korea. We talk about Iraq.
    We talk about humanitarian needs around the world. Someday, an American
    President will be sitting down with a duly elected leader of Iraq, and
    they're going to be talking about the peace, and they're going to look
    back in history and say, ``Thank goodness America never forgot the power
    of liberty to change lives.''
        I want to thank you all for giving me a chance to come by today. As
    you can see, I've got a plan to continue growing this economy so people
    can realize their hopes and dreams; that I know what needs to be done
    when it comes to securing this homeland and winning the war on terror;
    that I believe strongly in the values that make us a great nation; and
    that, with your help, we're going to win Pennsylvania and win a great
    election in November.
        God bless. Thank you all for coming. Thank you all.

    Note: The President spoke at 12:35 p.m. at Byers Choice. In his remarks,
    he referred to Mike Fitzpatrick, candidate for Pennsylvania's Eighth
    Congressional District; Tom Corbett, candidate for Pennsylvania State
    Attorney General; Prime Minister Ayad Allawi of the Iraqi Interim
    Government; Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan; and the National
    Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11
    Commission).