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We are easily amused...and
confused. We are not apolitical, but we are not left wing granola
crunchers, either. BUT, this is too good to pass up!
- Republicans understand
the importance of bondage between a mother and child
- If we don’t succeed,
we run the risk of failure
- The Holocaust was an
obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s
history. But we all lived this century. I didn’t live in this century.
- Rarely is the question
asked: Is our children learning
- Laura and I really
don’t realise how bright our children is sometimes until we get an
objective analysis
- Welcome to Mrs Bush,
and my fellow astronauts
- I believe we are on an
irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could
change
- I don’t know whether
I’m going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I’m ready for the
job. And, if not, that’s just the way it goes.
- I am a person who
recognises the fallacy of humans
- One of the great
things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures
- Verbosity leads to
unclear, inarticulate things
- One word sums up
probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one word is ‘to be
prepared’
- I understand small
business growth. I was one
- I hope the ambitious
realise that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to
failure
- Will the highways on
the internet become more few?
- Trying to describe his
brand of compassionate conservatism: “I’ve got a record, a record that
is conservative and a record that is compassionated”
- Quite frankly,
teachers are the only profession that teach our children
- I have made good
judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future.
- I am not part of the
problem. I am a Republican.
- When I been asked who
caused the riots and the killing in LA my answer has been direct and
simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is
the blame for the killings. The killers are to blame
- A low voter turn out
is an indication of fewer people going to the polls
- It isn’t pollution
that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and
water that are doing it
- I know how hard it is
for you to put food in your family
- On the California
power cuts: ‘The crunch really is the result of not enough power
generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of
generating plants
- On the death penalty:
The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I
have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that
I’ve looked at. I do not believe we put a guilty… I mean innocent
person to death in the state of Texas
- It is clear our nation
is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from
overseas.
- I am mindful not only
of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well
- Families is where our
nation finds hope, where wings take dream
- There’s no such thing
as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I’ll never see it
- Drug therapies are
replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it
- A foreign policy
priority: Keep good relations with the Grecians
- One of the common
denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is
expected.
- Well I think if you
say you’re going to do something and don’t do it, that’s trustworthiness
- They said: You know,
this issue doesn’t seem to resignate with the people and I said you know
something? Whether it resignates or not doesn’t matter to me, because I
stand for doing what’s the right thing, and what the right thing is
hearing the voices of people who work.
- I know the human being
and fish can co-exist peacefully
- We’ll let our friends
be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the
pacemakers
- I think we agree the
past is over
- We cannot let
terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies
hostile
- The senator (John
McCain) has got to understand if he's going to have he can’t have it
both ways. He can’t take the high horse and then claim the low road.
- The most important job
is not to be Governor, or First Lady in my case
- We’re going to have
the best educated American people in the world
- On campaigning in New
Hampshire: The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?
- I would have said yes
to abortion in only it was right. I mean, yeah, its right. Well no,
its not right. That’s why I said no to it
- When I was coming up
it was a dangerous world and you knew exactly who they were. It was Us
vs Them, and it was clear who ‘Them’ was. Today, we are not so sure who
the ‘They’ are, but we know they’re there.
- A tax cut is really
one of the anecdotes to coming out of economic illness
- We have a firm
commitment to Nato; we are a part of Nato. We have a firm commitment to
Europe, we are part of Europe
- I will have a
foreign-handed foreign policy
- Kosovians can move
back in
- Actually – this may
sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I’m talking about
– when I’m talking about myself, and when he’s talking about myself, all
of us are talking about me.
Taken from George W Bushisms, The
Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd
President, edited by Jacob Weisberg, as it appeared in the Daily Mail on
16 February, 2001.
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