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"President" Bush's dumbassosity.
This page is all about "President" Bush's condition known as dumbass. I shall provide proof of his retardedness if it is the last thing I do. |
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YOUR WEB STUFF!
| THE VERY LONG LIST OF BUSHISMS -
BEFORE W. WAS (!?) "ELECTED" |
"You've heard Al Gore say he invented the internet.
Well, if he was so smart, why do all the addresses begin with "W"?"
--10-28-00 Headline News - Mimi
Nov. 2, 2000, SEATTLE --
"If you don't stand for anything, you don't standfor anything!"
Gov. George W. Bush said to a packed rally at Bellevue Community College on Tuesday night.
--Thanks, Michael.
"They said this issue wouldn't resignate with the People. They've been proved wrong, it does resignate." ("resonate"?!)
"I believe a military of high morale is conducive to keeping the peace..."
not the worst but...
"...when we find a senior who has to choose between food and medicine-that's not our vision of America." Am I missing something? Aren't the two parts of this statement disconnected?
"A surplus means there'll be money left over. Otherwise, it wouldn't be called a surplus."
-- Kalamazoo, MI 10/27/2000 - Jack
If we are going to save a generation of young people, our children must know they will face bad consequences for criminal behavior. Sadly, too many youths are not getting that message. Our juvenile justice system must say to our children: We love you, but we are going to hold you accountable for your actions. --Bush campaign literature.
(Mr. Dubya: should you be held accountable for your youthful indiscretions when you were a 30 year old "child"?!)
"I'm not going to talk about what I did as a child. What I am going to talk about -- and I am going to say this consistently -- [is that] it is irrelevant what I did 20 to 30 years ago. What's relevant is that I have learned from any mistakes I made. I do not want to send signals to anybody that what Gov. Bush did 30 years ago is cool to try."
--Gov. Bush in an interview with WMUR-TV in New Hampshire, when asked if he had used "drugs, marijuana, cocaine"
"I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully
ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense
system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at
the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to
the level commiserate with keeping the peace."
—Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 23, 2000
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take
dream."
—LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000
"If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care,
we're going to have gag orders."
"Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to
know it."
"It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term."
"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a
gun."
"Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is—I'm not sure 80
percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent
will get it if I'm the president."
"Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all
about."
"If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for,
then I'm for it."
—St. Louis, Mo., October 18, 2000
"Our priorities is our faith."
—Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000
"I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial
profiling, which is illiterate children."
—Second presidential debate, Oct. 11, 2000 (Thanks to Leonard Williams.)
"It's going to require numerous IRA agents."
—On Gore's tax plan, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000
"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to
answer questions. I can't answer your question."
—In response to a question about whether he wished he could take back any of his answers in the
first debate. Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2000 (Thanks to Peter Feld.)
"I would have my secretary of treasury be in touch with the
financial centers, not only here but at home."
—Boston, Oct. 3, 2000 (Thanks to M. Bateman.)
While speaking about KIPP Academy in Houston, Texas during the debate
last night, would-be president Bush said:
"It's a school full of so-called at-risk children. It's how we,
unfortunately, label certain children. It means basically they
can't learn. ... It's one of the best schools in Houston."
So he thinks that "at-risk" means "can't learn?" And that one of the
best schools in Houston is filled with students that can't learn? What an idiot. (Thanks Derek Brandon)
... I've been talking to Vicente Fox, the new president of Mexico... I know him... to have gas and oil sent to U.S.... so we'll not depend on foreign oil...
-- on the first Presidential debate, 10/03/2000
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
—Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000
"I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy."
—Redwood, Calif., Sept. 27, 2000
"One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations
rise above that which is expected." --Los Angeles, Sept. 27, 2000
"...more and more of our imports are coming from overseas."
-- On NPR's Morning Edition (9/26) - (Thanks Paul ...)
Larry King: "What do people misunderstand about you most"
George Walker Bush: "That I'm running on my dad's name... (!?!)
I'm proud of my dad... I reconciled my love for my dad a long time ago"
-- What the heck is he talking about? (Thanks Dave...)
"Well, that's going to be up to the pundits and the people to make
up their mind. I'll tell you what is a president for him, for example,
talking about my record in the state of Texas. I mean, he's willing
to say anything in order to convince people that I haven't had a
good record in Texas."
--MSNBC, Sept. 20, 2000 (Thanks to Gregory H. Monberg.)
"I am aperson who recognizes the fallacy of humans...,"
apparently meaning fallibility."
--from "Bush courts women in cozy 'Oprah' visit" by William Goldshclag
printed in the New York City edition of the Daily News, September 20, 2000, page 5 (Thanks Michael...)
"A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an
economic illness."-- The Edge With Paula Zahn, Sept. 18, 2000
"The woman who knew that I had dyslexia--I never interviewed her."
--Orange, Calif., Sept. 15, 2000
"The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some
of their own money." —Westminster, Calif., Sept.13, 2000
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"They have miscalculated me as a leader." —Ibid.
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"...I don't need to be subliminabable.." Orlando, FL, Sept. 12 -- when caught using subliminal technique in his dirty ads against Gore... (read more)
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"This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them."—Outside Pittsburgh, Sept. 8, 2000
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"That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired."
—Westland, Mich., Sept. 8, 2000
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"Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where I'm coming from."
—Detroit, Sept. 7, 2000 (Thanks to Michael Butler, Houston, Texas.)
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"We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers."—Houston,Texas, Sept. 6, 2000
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"We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans."—Scranton, Pa., Sept. 6, 2000
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"I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways." —Allentown, Pa., Sept. 5, 2000.
Is he regreting what he said? Oh, no... he's regreting that we heard...
who is an asshole? (Bush's list of assholes must be very loooong...)
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"The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming."
--on his anti-Gore ad, in an interview with the New York Times, Sept. 2, 2000
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"As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public
schools, and I have met those standards."
--CNN online chat, Aug.30, 2000 (what are ya' laughin at?)
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"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do
it, that's trustworthiness."--Ibid.
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- "exemplarary"...
-- On 60 Minutes, 09/10/2000, after a rather interesting "expose" of the Texas schools and
the terrified kids waiting to take the TAAS (?) test... I wonder what his SAT's were? The debates will most certainly win an Emmy for best comedy series.- Frank
(Thanks Frank)
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The Texas governor, who spoke passionately of the need for
"plain-spoken Americans in the White House," tried to appear more
Southern gentleman than good-ol' boy as he and running mate Dick
Cheney shook hands with supporters at Naperville North High School
before cantering among the crowd at the city's Last Fling 2000
parade.
But "plain-spoken" took on quite an ironic meaning just before
Bush addressed the estimated 7,500 people who gathered in and
about the makeshift outdoor arena south of the high school.
A live microphone picked up an aside in which Bush described a
New York Times reporter who had written critically of his campaign as
"a major-league ass hole." The microphone also recorded Cheney's
rejoinder of "Oh yeah, he is, big time."
The disparaging words could not be heard by most observers over
the spirited playing of a marching band and the earsplitting roar of
the crowd. Cheney later refused to discuss the incident, saying
only that Bush "made a private comment to me."
...sounds very "presidential".. ---Naperville Sun - 09/06/00 - Thanks Chris
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"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."
—Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 21, 2000
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"We cannot let terriers* and rogue nations hold this nation hostile
(hostage) or hold our allies hostile.''
—Ibid. *Thanks for the correction, Phyllis (09/09/00)
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"No matter what anyone says, George can read
a Teleprompter. Thus, he showed that he has all
of the capabilities necessary to be an American
president in the Information Age." |
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On His Tax Break Plan Bush said that
"if most of the breaks go to wealthy people it's because
'most of the people who pay taxes are wealthy."
Extracted from the Internet - shocked? me too but not surprised |
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"The American people wants a president that
appeals to the angels..."
Bush in his speech during the GOP convention.
Aug/2000
Does he really believe that it is him ?... |
"This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot.
I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases."
--Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
June 23, 2000 (Thanks to Johnny Green.) |
Larry King: "What do people misunderstand about you most"
George Walker Bush: "That I'm running on my dad's name... (!?!)
I'm proud of my dad... I reconciled my love for my dad a long time ago"
-- What the heck is he talking about? (Thanks Dave...)
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"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."
—Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 21, 2000
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''This campaign not only hears the voices of the entrepreneurs and
the farmers and the entrepreneurs, we hear the voices of those
struggling to get head"—Ibid.
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"We cannot let terriers* and rogue nations hold this nation hostile
(hostage) or hold our allies hostile.''
—Ibid. *Thanks for the correction, Phyllis (09/09/00)
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"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone
who brings people together."(it's really different, it's unique! wow!)
—Bartlett, Tenn., Aug. 18, 2000 (Thanks to Tarja Black.)
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"I wish I could turn to the soldiers on that ship,"
Mr. Bush said, erroneously referring to the sailors
on an aircraft carrier in the backdrop, "and I wish
they could hear me: stay in the military, there's a
new commander in chief coming."
-- 8/13... New York Times
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"I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president
were wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where."
—Interview with the Associated Press, Aug. 11, 2000(Thanks to Ryan Rhodes.)
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"I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration.
They will be in the forethought of our thinking."
—Salinas, Calif., Aug. 10, 2000 (Thanks to Kris Sester.) |
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"And if he continues that, I'm going to tell the nation what I
think about him as a human being and a person."
—President George H.W. Bush, on the Today show, Aug. 1, 2000 |
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On His Tax Break Plan Bush said that
"if most of the breaks go to wealthy people it's because
'most of the people who pay taxes are wealthy."
Extracted from the Internet - shocked? me too but not surprised |
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"The American people wants a president that
appeals to the angels..."
Bush in his speech during the GOP convention.
Aug/2000
Does he really believe that it is him ?... |
"This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot.
I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases."
--Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
June 23, 2000 (Thanks to Johnny Green.) |
"It was a very interesting election. It shows how powerfulchange is. When the people want change or want reform, it's amazing what happens. And I’m going to place a call of congratulations to Mr. Fox today or tomorrow. I think it’s a very interesting statement of how far political reform
has come in Mexico. And I want to congratulate Mr. Fox on an amazing victory, a historic victory. I think what it indicates is how far reform has come in Mexico."
(text extracted from Bush's web site.We found out that it has been removed from his "new and improved" web site)
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George W. Bush's new Web site, www.georgewbush.com, states that the No. 3 priority of the campaign is
"Putting Education First." -- 7/19... Al Kamen, Washington Post
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"Unfairly but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against things. Anti-immigrant, for example. And we're not a party of anti-immigrants. Quite the opposite. We're a party that welcomes people."
— Cleveland, Ohio, July 1, 2000 (Thanks to M. Bateman) |
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| "The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective."— In Wayne, Mich., as quoted by Katharine Q. Seelye in the New York Times, June 28, 2000 |
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"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've put a guilty ... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas."
— All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000 (Thanks to Andy Nouraee.) |
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"I'm gonna talk about the ideal world, Chris. I've read —
I understand reality. If you're asking me as the president, would I understand reality, I do."
— On abortion, Hardball, MSNBC; May 31, 2000 |
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"At one of these governors' conferences, George [W. Bush] turns to me and says: 'What are they talking about?'
I said: 'I don't know.'
He said: 'You don't know anything, do you?'
And I said: 'Not one thing.'
Bush said: 'Neither do I.'
And we kind of high-fived."
--Republican Gov. Gary Johnson of New Mexico shares a verbal
exchange that took place between him and George W. Bush.
(Quote is from the Los Angeles Times, 5/31/00)
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| "There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me." — On the coming Social Security crisis; Wilton, Conn.; June 9, 2000 (Thanks to Andy Mais.) |
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"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating."
— U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000 (Thanks to Alfred Stanley, Austin, Texas.)
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Bush: "First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciséis de Septiembre, and ..."
Matthews: "What's that in English?"
Bush: "Fifteenth of September."
(Dieciséis de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
— Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000 (Thanks to numerous readers.) |
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| "Actually, I — 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." — Ibid |
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"This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past.
In the past we were certain, we were certain it was us versus the Russians in the past. We were certain, and therefore we had huge nuclear arsenals aimed at each other to keep the peace. That's what we were certain of. ... You see, even though it's an uncertain world, we're certain of some things. We're certain that even though the 'evil empire' may have passed, evil still remains. We're certain there are people that can't stand what America stands for. ... We're certain there are madmen in this world, and there's terror, and there's missiles and I'm certain of this, too: I'm certain to maintain the peace, we better have a military of high morale, and I'm certain that under this administration, morale in the military is dangerously low."
— Albuquerque, N.M., the Washington Post, May 31, 2000 |
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"The fact that he relies on facts—says things that are not factual — are going to undermine his campaign."
— New York Times, March 4, 2000 (Thanks to Garry Trudeau.) |
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"I think we agree, the past is over."
— On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000 |
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"It's clearly a budget.
It's got a lot of numbers in it."
— Reuters, May 5, 2000 (Thanks to Allison Fansler.) | |
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GOV. BUSH: Because the picture on the newspaper. It just seems so un-American to me, the picture of the guy storming the house with a scared little boy there. I talked to my little brother, Jeb — I haven't told this to many people. But he's the governor of — I shouldn't call him my little brother — my brother, Jeb, the great governor of Texas.
JIM LEHRER: Florida.
GOV. BUSH: Florida. The state of the Florida.
—The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, April 27, 2000 |
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"I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know."
— On what happened in negotiations between the Justice Department and Elián González's Miami relatives, as quoted by the Associated Press, April 26, 2000 (Thanks to Saul Selzer.) |
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"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis."
— Meet the Press, April 15, 2000 |
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"You subscribe politics to it. I subscribe freedom to it."
— Responding to a question about whether he and Al Gore were making the Elián González case a political issue. In Palm Beach, Fla., as quoted by the Associated Press, April 6, 2000 (Thanks to Helen Kennedy.) |
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"I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C.,is close to California." — In Los Angeles as quoted by the Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000 "Reading is the basics for all learning." — Announcing his "Reading First" initiative in Reston, Va., March 28, 2000
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"We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal — federal cufflink."
— At Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, March 30, 2000 |
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"Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads."
— Fund-raising letter from George W. Bush, quoted in the Washington Post,
March 24, 2000 |
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"I've got a reason for running. I talk about a larger goal, which is to call upon the best of America. It's part of the renewal. It's reform and renewal. Part of the renewal is a set of high standards and to remind people that the greatness of America really does depend on neighbors helping neighbors and children finding mentors. I worry. I'm very worried about, you know, the kid who just wonders whether America is meant for him. I really worry about that. And uh, so, I'm running for a reason. I'm answering this question here and the answer is, you cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative. And so to answer your question, I'm going to win because people sense my heart, know my sense of optimism and know where I want to lead the country. And I tease people by saying, 'A leader, you can't say, follow me the world is going to be worse.' I'm an optimistic person. I'm an inherently content person. I've got a great sense of where I want to lead and I'm comfortable with why I'm running. And, you know, the call on that speech was, beware. This is going to be a tough campaign."
— Interview with the Washington Post, March 23, 2000 |
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"People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me."
— Interview with the New York Times, March 15, 2000
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"I mean I, there will be debates. I mean every election cycle has the debate on the debates. You know that. I want to, I have a lot of work to do and first things first. I understand exactly what has to happen. And by the way there is a couple of phases left in the campaign. One is the period between now and the conventions, very important to manage as well. There are some tasks at hand." -- U.S. News and World Report interview, March 8
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"And you know, I think if people are satisfied with the status quo out of Washington, the tone, the attitude, if Al Gore's message is, you know, vote for me, I'm going to -- I'm going to extend the Clinton-Gore era for another four years, if that's what people want, that's what reform -- people who think they want reform want, then it's going to -- you know, it's a tough vote for me to get." -- Press Conference, March 9
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"It gave me a chance, this issue has now been aired, and many Catholic leaders listened very closely to my responses; they know full well in my letter to Cardinal O'Connor."
-- U.S. News and World Report interview, March 8 (on Bob Jones University speech) |
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"It's evolutionary, going from governor to president, and this is a significant step, to be able to vote for yourself on the ballot, and I'll be able to do so next fall, I hope."
—In an interview with the Associated Press, March 8, 2000
(Thanks to Joshua Micah Marshall.)
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"My plan is one, by the way, joined by Democrats as well as Republicans, that understands by taking advantage of the compounding rate of interest, younger workers will be able to have some -- have benefits that are -- that we anticipate a promise for the long run."
-- Interview, Fox news, May 18 |
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"States should have the right to enact reasonable laws and restrictions particularly to end the inhumane practice
of ending a life that otherwise could live."
—Cleveland, June 29, 2000 (Thanks to Douglas Basford.) |
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| "It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature.''—Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000 |
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| "I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university."—Today, Feb. 23, 2000 |
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"I understand small business growth. I was one"
—New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000
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"The mission must be to fight and win war and therefore to prevent war from happening in the first place,''
--The day before Super Tuesday in San Diego, Mr. Bush was talking about the
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"The senator 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."
—To reporters in Florence,S.C., Feb. 17, 2000 |
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"Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really pleased with the organization and the thousands of South Carolinians that worked on my behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled."
—To Cokie Roberts, This Week, Feb. 20, 2000 |
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"I don't want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on the bus 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving hundreds of speeches, getting pillared in the press and cartoons and still staying on message to win?"
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| "I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists."— ibid. |
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"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this
campaign."— Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000 |
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"How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?"
— Explaining the need for educational accountability
in Beaufort, S.C., Feb.16, 2000 |
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"We ought to make the pie higher."
— South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000 |
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"I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to attract votes and to lead people toward a better tomorrow somehow I get subscribed to some — some doctrine gets subscribed to me."
— Meet The Press, Feb. 13, 2000 |
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"I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth."
— Nashua, N.H., as quoted by Gail Collins in the New York Times, Feb. 1, 2000 |
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"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case."
— Pella, Iowa, as quoted by the San Antonio Express-News, Jan. 30, 2000 |
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"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"
— Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000 |
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"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation.
It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve."—Speaking during "Perseverance Month" at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times,
Jan. 28, 2000 |
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"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
— Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000 |
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"What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.''
— Quoted by Molly Ivins, the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000 |
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"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were," he said. "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."
— Iowa Western Community College, Jan 21, 2000 |
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"The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women who are focused on what's best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see
service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house."—Des Moines Register debate, Iowa, Jan. 15, 2000 |
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"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mential losses."— (He meant "nuclear launches)
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"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"—
Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000 |
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"Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure."
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| "There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be town-hall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country."—Larry King Live, Dec. 16, 1999 |
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| "I read the newspaper."—In answer to a question about his reading habits, New Hampshire Republican Debate, Dec. 2, 1999 |
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"I think it's important for those of us in a position of responsibility to be firm in sharing our
experiences, to understand that the babies out of wedlock is a very difficult chore for mom and baby alike. ... I
believe we ought to say there is a different alternative than the culture that is proposed by people like Miss
Wolf in society. ... And, you know, hopefully, condoms will work, but it hasn't worked."— Meet the Press, Nov. 21, 1999 |
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"The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them."
—From A Charge To Keep, by George W. Bush, published November 1999 |
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"It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents."
—Keene, N.H., Oct. 22, 1999, quoted in the New Republic, Nov. 15, 1999 |
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"The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?"
—Answering a question about why he hasn't spent more time in New Hampshire, in the New York Times, Oct. 23, 1999 |
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"I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember."
—On discussions of the Vietnam War when he was an undergraduate at Yale, Washington Post, July 27, 1999 |
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| "The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas." — To a Slovak journalist, quoted by Knight Ridder News Service, June 22/99. Bush's meeting was with Janez Drnovsek, the prime minister of Slovenia. |
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"If the East Timorians decide to revolt, I'm sure I'll have a statement."
—Quoted by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, June 16, 1999 |
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"Keep good relations with the Grecians."
—Quoted in the Economist, June 12, 1999 |
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| "Kosovians can move back in." —CNN Inside Politics, April 9, 1999 |
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"It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then."
— From a 1994 interview, as quoted in First Son, by Bill Minutaglio |
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"A reformer with results is a conservative who has had compassionate results in the state of Texas."
-- New York Times, Feb. 10
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"I did my duty. I was honorably discharged. I put in my time."
--George W. Bush gets defensive explaining his service in the Texas National Guard during the Vietnam War. In 1972 and '73, Bush was temporarily excused from his duties for several months to work on a political campaign.
--(Quote is from a news conference in New Mexico, 5/31/00) |
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I'm working on getting the Jib Jab stuff on here
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