George W. Bush quotes

[MonsterBengt]

Here is a sampling of George W Bush quotes spoken by the president.

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." -George W. Bush

"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."
-George W. Bush

"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.''
-George W. Bush, Feb. 21, 2001

"If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!"
-George W. Bush, Bellevue Community College, Nov. 2, 2000

"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas."
-George W. Bush, Beaverton, Ore., Sep. 25, 2000

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
-George W. Bush

"There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it."
-George W. Bush, speaking to Catholic leaders at the White House, Jan. 31, 2001

"Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment."
-George W. Bush, Jan. 2001

"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods."
-George W. Bush, Dec. 20, 2000

"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program."
-George W. Bush

"We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.''
-George W. Bush

"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating."
-George W. Bush

"Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?"
-George W. Bush

"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."
-George W. Bush

"If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow."
-George W. Bush, Jan. 2000

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
-George W. Bush

"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there."
-George W. Bush, Jan. 2000

"One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected."
-George W. Bush

"The great thing about America is everybody should vote."
-George W. Bush

"There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead."
-George W. Bush, May 11, 2001

"I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them."
-George W. Bush, Dec. 20, 2000

"First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country."
-George W. Bush, on the Kyoto accord, April 24, 2001

"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants."
-George W. Bush, Jan. 2001

"I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure."
-George W. Bush, Jan. 2001

"This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end."
-George W. Bush, April 10, 2001

"If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all."
-George W. Bush, May 22, 2001

"Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican."
-George W. Bush, declining to take reporters' questions during a photo op with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, April 21, 2001

"But I also made it clear to (Vladimir Putin) that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe."
-George W. Bush, May 1, 2001

[ci5ic]

asshat.

[CaptainBennett]

wow, thats a lot of syllables for him

[carrrnuttt]

Here's some more recent ones, from about.com: http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/b...shisms2005.htm

Top 10 Bushisms of 2005

The Dumbest Things President Bush Said in 2005

10) "It's totally wiped out. ... It's devastating, it's got to be doubly devastating on the ground." --turning to his aides while surveying Hurricane Katrina flood damage from Air Force One, Aug. 31, 2005

9) "I'm occasionally reading, I want you to know, in the second term." --Washington, D.C., March 16, 2005

8) "This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table." --Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 22, 2005

7) "I'm going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess, it's the mother in me." --Washington D.C., April 14, 2005

6) "Because the — all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculate, for example, is on the table; whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those — changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be — or closer delivered to what has been promised. Does that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled." --explaining his plan to save Social Security, Tampa, Fla., Feb. 4, 2005

5) "I think I may need a bathroom break. Is this possible?" --in a note to to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a U.N. Security Council meeting, September 14, 2005 (View photo)

4) "We've got a lot of rebuilding to do. First, we're going to save lives and stabilize the situation. And then we're going to help these communities rebuild. The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch." (Laughter) --touring hurricane damage, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005

3) "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." --Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005 (Listen to audio)

2) "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." --to FEMA director Michael Brown, who resigned 10 days later amid criticism over his handling of the Hurricane Katrina debacle, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005 (Listen to audio)

1) "You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." --to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005 (Listen to audio)

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And absolutely even more here: http://www.dslextreme.com/users/mark...2/bushisms.htm

Amazing how such a public figure would allow himself to be blindsided--by himself---in public all the time. Lord only knows what he says in private. Not that he has a choice--Yale must be so proud of their C graduate.

[BNaylor]

lol. G.W. does sound dumb. Bill Clinton was just as funny. I guess together they are dumb and dumber.

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"It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is." –Bill Clinton, during his 1998 grand jury testimony on the Monica Lewinsky affair

"It depends on how you define alone…" –Bill Clinton, in his grand jury testimony

"There were a lot of times when we were alone, but I never really thought we were." –Bill Clinton, in his grand jury testimony

"What's a man got to do to get in the top fifty?" –Bill Clinton, reacting to a survey of journalists that ranked the Monica Lewinsky scandal as the 53rd most significant story of the century

"I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system." –Bill Clinton, on the White House

"When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it.

I didn't inhale and never tried it again." –Bill Clinton

"Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that." –Bill Clinton, to a woman friend while he was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford

"It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had AstroTurf in the back. You don't want to know why, but I did." –Bill Clinton, reminiscing about a pickup truck he once owned

"You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy" —Bill Clinton, looking at "Juanita," a newly discovered Incan mummy on display at the National Geographic museum

"Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening." –Bill Clinton

"Last year, the vice president launched a new effort to help make communities more liberal." —Bill Clinton, during his 2000 State of the Union Speech. He meant to say "more livable," and then made the same slip-up in a subsequent sentence, drawing uproarious laughter from Republicans

"I asked him to do it because he was the only person that I could trust to read all 150,000 pages in the Code of Federal Regulations." –Bill Clinton, on asking Vice President Al Gore to tackle federal regulatory reform

"I'm someone who had a deep emotional attachment to 'Starsky and Hutch.'" –Bill Clinton

"Sometimes I feel like the fire hydrant looking at a pack of dogs. For six years I had declined to tell those kinds of jokes, because I have been told it is not presidential. But I feel kind of outdoorsy today." –Bill Clinton, at a party honoring the 150th anniversary of the Interior Department

"Well, I don't have much job security." –Bill Clinton, in 1992, on why he still plays the saxophone

"Usually briefs." –Bill Clinton, asked during a 1994 MTV town meeting whether he wore boxer shorts or briefs

"Look, half the time when I see the evening news, I wouldn't be for me, either." –Bill Clinton, in 1995, on a pre-campaign swing through Montana and Colorado

"There are always going to be people who want to be president, and some days I'd like to give it to them." –Bill Clinton, in 1993

"The economy has produced 6.1 million jobs since I became president, and if Michael Jordan comes back to the Bulls, it will be 6,100,001 jobs." –Bill Clinton, in 1995

"It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest hour and a half." –Bill Clinton, after giving an endless nominating speech for Michael Dukakis at the 1988 Democratic convention

"You'd think he was running for First Lady." –Bill Clinton, on George H. W. Bush's criticism of Hillary Clinton

"If President Reagan could be an actor and become president, maybe I could become an actor. I've got a good pension. I can work for cheap." -Bill Clinton, at a Hollywood fundraiser

"I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years." –Bill Clinton

[Raz_Kaz]

Clinton's quotes make sense and are comprehensable...some of them are jokes wheras Dubya's quotes make you wanna down an entire bottle of Tylenol to relieve the headaches.

[G-man422]

Ah yeah! W is my man! gotta love him.

[2.2 Straight six]

george bush is a tool.

[2.2 Straight six]

reading the clinton ones, they're funny cos he made them funny, they're jokes. but bush's ones are funny cos he's just so stupid.

[BNaylor]

Maybe GW takes after his father GHW. Checkout the one where he says:

"I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around".





America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
George H. W. Bush

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.
George H. W. Bush

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
George H. W. Bush

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.
George H. W. Bush

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.
George H. W. Bush

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
George H. W. Bush

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.
George H. W. Bush

I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.
George H. W. Bush

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.
George H. W. Bush

I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
George H. W. Bush

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.
George H. W. Bush

It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.
George H. W. Bush

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
George H. W. Bush

My grandkids say, "Reality Bites." O.K., but it also challenges and rewards... I believe our best days are yet to come.
George H. W. Bush

No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.
George H. W. Bush

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
George H. W. Bush

There are things we can do to give us a little more attention... I've got to look more frantic.
George H. W. Bush

We are not the sum of our possessions.
George H. W. Bush

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.
George H. W. Bush

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
George H. W. Bush

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.
George H. W. Bush

[quteasabutton]

bush is so retarded. one time i was watching an interview between him and a reporter on tv and the reporter asked him a question with two parts. he stumbles thru the first part, pauses, then is like "uhh..what's the second question, i forgot." do you really want someone like that running our country? i don't. had i been old enough to vote, it surely wouldn't've been for him. that's a link of the correlation between IQ, state people live in and who they voted for. pretty interesting

http://www.whywehatebush.com/news/04_12_iq.html

[blindside.AMG]

Originally Posted by quteasabutten

bush is so retarded. one time i was watching an interview between him and a reporter on tv and the reporter asked him a question with two parts. he stumbles thru the first part, pauses, then is like "uhh..what's the second question, i forgot." do you really want someone like that running our country? i don't. had i been old enough to vote, it surely wouldn't've been for him. that's a link of the correlation between IQ, state people live in and who they voted for. pretty interesting

http://www.whywehatebush.com/news/04_12_iq.html

You know that's a joke right??

[quteasabutton]

Originally Posted by blindside.AMG

You know that's a joke right??

no it's not...

[Cyprus106]

dude... bush quotes havebeen done. And done. And done. AND DONE.

[Moppie]

Originally Posted by Cyprus106

dude... bush quotes havebeen done. And done. And done. AND DONE.

And people still think he's a great man