George W. Bush
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President of the United States · United States
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Content note: Describes named states as an axis of evil. The words are shown as they were said or written. Why
“States like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger.”
State of the Union address four months after the 11 September 2001 attacks. The states named earlier in the passage are North Korea, Iran and Iraq.
Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union, 29 January 2002, The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) Source