President George W. Bush clarifying his “axis of evil” comment: “I also want to explain right quickly what I meant when I was talking about the axis of evil. Let me put it to you this way: we cannot allow nations that have got a history of totalitarianism, dictatorship — a nation, for example, like Iraq that poisoned her own people — to develop a weapon of mass destruction and mate-up with terrorist organizations who hate freedom-loving countries. We can’t afford to do that for the sake of our children and our children’s children.”
– Transcript, “President Promotes Funding for Emergency First Responders,” George W. Bush – White House Archives online, Accessed on 7/7/2016