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Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/06/20070619.html
President Bush Meets with Prime Minister Olmert at White House
[White House] President Bush: "We face extremists and radicals who use violence and murder as a tool to achieve objectives....Those of us that believe in liberty and human rights and human decency need to be bound together in common cause to fight off these extremists, and to defeat them. You can only defeat them so much militarily. We have to also defeat them with a better idea. It's a better idea that's being practiced by our friend, Israel. It's called democracy. And that's the fundamental challenge facing this century: Will we have the courage and the resolve necessary to help democracy defeat this ideology?" Prime Minister Olmert: "The idea that I have is to talk with [Mahmoud Abbas on] the current issues that can help upgrade the quality of life of the people and provide them better security in the West Bank, and to share with him the efforts to calm the terror - this is something that he is absolutely committed to doing, we have to do it, and this is not something that the Palestinians can escape. They will help fight terror in a most effective way - something that they haven't done, unfortunately, up until now. But this is something that I am sure he understands is a prerequisite for any major development in the future."