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Titolo: Little George " Il Martellatore"

Una, raccolta per collezionisti: Little George "il martellatore" non
scherza; e`veramente sottostimato !
Per la moltitudine (trecentoventotto quotazioni) , ho diviso la raccolta in
tre "centurie".
P.S.:Castagno...aspettiamo tutti le tue spiegazioni.
Giano
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Le nostre vite cominciano a finire il giorno in cui iniziamo a tacere sulle
cose che contano
Martin Luther King Jr.

The Complete Bushisms
Updated frequently.
By Jacob Weisberg
"I want to thank my friend, Sen. Bill Frist, for joining us today. . He
married a Texas girl, I want you to know. (Laughter.) Karyn is with us. A
West Texas girl, just like
me."-Nashville, Tenn., May 27, 2004
"I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut
off by Saddam Hussein."-Washington, D.C., May 25, 2004
"This has been tough weeks in that country."-Washington, D.C., April 13,
2004 (Thanks to David Huddleston)
"[B]y the way, we rank 10th amongst the industrialized world in broadband
technology and its availability. That's not good enough for America. Tenth
is 10 spots too low as
far as I'm concerned."-Minneapolis, Minn., April 26, 2004
"My job is to, like, think beyond the immediate."-Washington, D.C., April
21, 2004
"I want to thank my friend, Sen. Bill Frist, for joining us today. . He
married a Texas girl, I want you to know. (Laughter.) Karyn is with us. A
West Texas girl, just like
me."-Nashville, Tenn., May 27, 2004
"I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut
off by Saddam Hussein."-Washington, D.C., May 25, 2004
"This has been tough weeks in that country."-Washington, D.C., April 13,
2004 (Thanks to David Huddleston)
"[B]y the way, we rank 10th amongst the industrialized world in broadband
technology and its availability. That's not good enough for America. Tenth
is 10 spots too low as
far as I'm concerned."-Minneapolis, Minn., April 26, 2004
"My job is to, like, think beyond the immediate."-Washington, D.C., April
21, 2004
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"This is historic times."-New York, N.Y., April 20, 2004
"Obviously, I pray every day there's less casualty."-Fort Hood, Texas, April
11, 2004 (Thanks to Pat Gallagher.)
"Recession means that people's incomes, at the employer level, are going
down, basically, relative to costs, people are getting laid
off."-Washington, D.C., Feb. 19, 2004
(Thanks to Garry Trudeau.)
"God loves you, and I love you. And you can count on both of us as a
powerful message that people who wonder about their future can hear."-Los
Angeles, Calif., March 3,
2004 (Thanks to Tanny Bear.)
"The march to war affected the people's confidence. It's hard to make
investment. See, if you're a small business owner or a large business owner
and you're thinking about
investing, you've got to be optimistic when you invest. Except when you're
marching to war, it's not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words,
it's the opposite of
optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war." -Springfield, Mo.,
Feb. 9, 2004 (Thanks to Garry Trudeau.)
"See, one of the interesting things in the Oval Office-I love to bring
people into the Oval Office-right around the corner from here-and say, this
is where I office, but I want
you to know the office is always bigger than the person."-Washington, D.C.,
Jan. 29, 2004 (Thanks to Michael Shively.)
"More Muslims have died at the hands of killers than-I say more Muslims-a
lot of Muslims have died-I don't know the exact count-at Istanbul. Look at
these different
places around the world where there's been tremendous death and destruction
because killers kill."-Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2004 (Thanks to Michael
Shively.)
"In an economic recession, I'd rather that in order to get out of this
recession, that the people be spending their money, not the government
trying to figure out how to spend
the people's money."-Tampa, Fla., Feb. 16, 2004
"King Abdullah of Jordan, the King of Morocco, I mean, there's a series of
places-Qatar, Oman-I mean, places that are developing-Bahrain-they're all
developing the
habits of free societies."-Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2004
"But the true strength of America is found in the hearts and souls of people
like Travis, people who are willing to love their neighbor, just like they
would like to love
themselves."-Springfield, Mo., Feb. 9, 2004 (Thanks to George Dupper.)
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"My views are one that speaks to freedom."-Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2004
"In my judgment, when the United States says there will be serious
consequences, and if there isn't serious consequences, it creates adverse
consequences."
"There is no such thing necessarily in a dictatorial regime of iron-clad
absolutely solid evidence. The evidence I had was the best possible evidence
that he had a weapon."
"The recession started upon my arrival. t could have been-some say February,
some say March, some speculate maybe earlier it started-but nevertheless, it
happened as
we showed up here. The attacks on our country affected our economy.
Corporate scandals affected the confidence of people and therefore affected
the economy. My
decision on Iraq, this kind of march to war, affected the economy."-Meet the
Press, Feb. 8, 2004
"I was a prisoner too, but for bad reasons."-To Argentine President Nestor
Kirchner, on being told that all but one of the Argentine delegates to a
summit meeting were
imprisoned during the military dictatorship, Monterrey, Mexico, Jan. 13,
2004
"[T]he illiteracy level of our children are appalling."-Washington, D.C.,
Jan. 23, 2004 (Thanks to Lewell Gunter.)
"Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the
hunter."-Advising quail hunter and New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici, Roswell,
N.M., Jan. 22, 2004
"One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the
governor-the president-governor-president. Oops. Ex-governor. I went to
Bethesda Naval
Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched
him-get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq-and at that same-right after I
gave him the Purple
Heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States-a Mexican citizen,
now a United States citizen."-Washington, D.C., Jan. 9, 2004
"I want to thank the astronauts who are with us, the courageous spacial
entrepreneurs who set such a wonderful example for the young of our
country."-Washington, D.C.,
Jan. 14, 2004
"And if you're interested in the quality of education and you're paying
attention to what you hear at Laclede, why don't you volunteer? Why don't
you mentor a child how to
read?"-St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 5, 2004
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"So thank you for reminding me about the importance of being a good mom and
a great volunteer as well."-St. Louis, Jan. 5, 2004
"I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the war, it
requires an expenditure of money that is commiserate with keeping a promise
to our troops to make sure
that they're well-paid, well-trained, well-equipped."
"See, without the tax relief package, there would have been a deficit, but
there wouldn't have been the commiserate-not 'commiserate'-the kick to our
economy that
occurred as a result of the tax relief."
"[T]he best way to find these terrorists who hide in holes is to get people
coming forth to describe the location of the hole, is to give clues and
data."
"Justice was being delivered to a man who defied that gift from the Almighty
to the people of Iraq."-Washington, D.C., Dec. 15, 2003
"[A]s you know, these are open forums, you're able to come and listen to
what I have to say."-Washington, D.C., Oct. 28, 2003
"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the-the vast majority of
Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people
and we will bring
them to justice."-Washington, D.C., Oct. 27, 2003 (Thanks to Robert Hack.)
"[W]hether they be Christian, Jew, or Muslim, or Hindu, people have heard
the universal call to love a neighbor just like they'd like to be called
themselves."-Washington,
Oct. 8, 2003 (Thanks to George Dupper.)
"See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each
other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."-Milwaukee,
Wis., Oct. 3, 2003
"[W]e've had leaks out of the administrative branch, had leaks out of the
legislative branch, and out of the executive branch and the legislative
branch, and I've spoken out
consistently against them, and I want to know who the leakers are."-Chicago,
Sept. 30, 2003
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"Washington is a town where there's all kinds of allegations. You've heard
much of the allegations. And if people have got solid information, please
come forward with it. And
that would be people inside the information who are the so-called anonymous
sources, or people outside the information-outside the
administration."-Chicago, Sept. 30,
2003 (Thanks to Andy Bowers.)
"[T]hat's just the nature of democracy. Sometimes pure politics enters into
the rhetoric."-Crawford, Texas, Aug. 8, 2003 (Thanks to Inigo Thomas.)
"I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I
rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the
news
themselves."-Washington, D.C., Sept. 21, 2003
"I'm so pleased to be able to say hello to Bill Scranton. He's one of the
great Pennsylvania political families."-Drexel Hill, Penn., Sept. 15, 2003
(Thanks to Michael Shively.)
"We had a good Cabinet meeting, talked about a lot of issues. Secretary of
State and Defense brought us up to date about our desires to spread freedom
and peace around
the world."-Washington, D.C., Aug. 1, 2003 (Thanks to Tanny Bear.)
"Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to
peace."-Washington, D.C., July 25, 2003
"Our country puts $1 billion a year up to help feed the hungry. And we're by
far the most generous nation in the world when it comes to that, and I'm
proud to report that.
This isn't a contest of who's the most generous. I'm just telling you as an
aside. We're generous. We shouldn't be bragging about it. But we are. We're
very
generous."-Washington, D.C., July 16, 2003
"It's very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who left here to
go to America, because of their steadfast and their religion and their
belief in freedom, helped
change America."-Dakar, Senegal, July 8, 2003 (Thanks to Michael Shively.)
"My answer is bring them on."-On Iraqi militants attacking U.S. forces,
Washington, D.C., July 3, 2003
"You've also got to measure in order to begin to effect change that's just
more-when there's more than talk, there's just actual-a paradigm
shift."-Washington, D.C., July
1, 2003 (Thanks to Michael Shively.)
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"I urge the leaders in Europe and around the world to take swift, decisive
action against terror groups such as Hamas, to cut off their funding, and to
support-cut funding
and support, as the United States has done."-Washington, D.C., June 25, 2003
"Iran would be dangerous if they have a nuclear weapon."-Washington, D.C.,
June 18, 2003
"Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history-revisionist
historians is what I like to call them."-Elizabeth, N.J., June 16, 2003
"I am determined to keep the process on the road to peace."-Washington,
D.C., June 10, 2003 (Thanks to Tanny Bear.)
"The true strength of America happens when a neighbor loves a neighbor just
like they'd like to be loved themselves."-Elizabeth, N.J., June 16, 2003
"We are making steadfast progress."-Washington, D.C., June 9, 2003 (Thanks
to Michael Shively.)
"I'm the master of low expectations."-Aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003
"I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking
about myself, about why I do things."-Aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003
"I recently met with the finance minister of the Palestinian Authority, was
very impressed by his grasp of finances."-Washington, D.C., May 29, 2003
"Oftentimes, we live in a processed world-you know, people focus on the
process and not results."-Washington, D.C., May 29, 2003
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"I've got very good relations with President Mubarak and Crown Prince
Abdallah and the King of Jordan, Gulf Coast countries."-Washington, D.C.,
May 29, 2003
"All up and down the different aspects of our society, we had meaningful
discussions. Not only in the Cabinet Room, but prior to this and after this
day, our secretaries,
respective secretaries, will continue to interact to create the conditions
necessary for prosperity to reign."-Washington, D.C., May 19, 2003
"First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers.
Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to
kill."-Washington, D.C., May 19,
2003
"We ended the rule of one of history's worst tyrants, and in so doing, we
not only freed the American people, we made our own people more
secure."-Crawford, Texas,
May 3, 2003 (Thanks to Tony Marciniec.)
"We've had a great weekend here in the Land of the Enchanted."-Albuquerque,
N.M., May 12, 2003 (New Mexico's state nickname is "Land of Enchantment.")
"We've got hundreds of sites to exploit, looking for the chemical and
biological weapons that we know Saddam Hussein had prior to our entrance
into Iraq."-Santa Clara,
Calif., May 2, 2003 (Thanks to Michael Shively.)
"I think war is a dangerous place."-Washington, D.C., May 7, 2003
"I don't bring God into my life to-to, you know, kind of be a political
person."-Interview with Tom Brokaw aboard Air Force One, April 24, 2003
"You're free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it'll take time to
restore chaos and order-order out of chaos. But we will."-Washington, D.C.,
April 13, 2003
"Perhaps one way will be, if we use military force, in the post-Saddam Iraq
the U.N. will definitely need to have a role. And that way it can begin to
get its legs, legs of
responsibility back."-the Azores, Portugal, March 16, 2003
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"I know there's a lot of young ladies who are growing up wondering whether
or not they can be champs. And they see the championship teams from USC and
University of
Portland here, girls who worked hard to get to where they are, and they're
wondering about the example they're setting. What is life choices
about?"-Washington, D.C., Feb.
24, 2003
"Now, we talked to Joan Hanover. She and her husband, George, were visiting
with us. They are near retirement-retiring-in the process of retiring,
meaning they're very
smart, active, capable people who are retirement age and are
retiring."-Alexandria, Va., Feb. 12, 2003 (Thanks to Dennis Doubleday.)
"Columbia carried in its payroll classroom experiments from some of our
students in America."-Bethesda, Md., Feb. 3, 2003
"And, most importantly, Alma Powell, secretary of Colin Powell, is with
us."-Washington, D.C., Jan. 30, 2003
"The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam
Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize
himself."-Grand
Rapids, Mich., Jan. 29, 2003
"When Iraq is liberated, you will be treated, tried, and persecuted as a war
criminal."-Washington, D.C., Jan. 22, 2003 (Thanks to Chad Conwell.)
"Many of the punditry-of course, not you (laughter)-but other punditry were
quick to say, no one is going to follow the United States of
America."-Washington, D.C., Jan.
21, 2003
"One year ago today, the time for excuse-making has come to an
end."-Washington, D.C., Jan. 8, 2003
"I think the American people-I hope the American-I don't think, let me-I
hope the American people trust me."-Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 2002
"The goals for this country are peace in the world. And the goals for this
country are a compassionate American for every single citizen. That
compassion is found in the
hearts and souls of the American citizens."-Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2002
(Thanks to Michael Shively.)
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"There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and
the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed
the troops, I've
got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's
like."-Washington, D.C., Dec. 11, 2002
"In other words, I don't think people ought to be compelled to make the
decision which they think is best for their family."-Washington, D.C., Dec.
11, 2002 (Thanks to
Stephanie Nichols.)
"Sometimes, Washington is one of these towns where the person-people who
think they've got the sharp elbow is the most effective person." -New
Orleans, Dec. 3, 2002
(Thanks to Michael Shively.)
"The law I sign today directs new funds and new focus to the task of
collecting vital intelligence on terrorist threats and on weapons of mass
production."-Washington, D.C.,
Nov. 27, 2002
"These people don't have tanks. They don't have ships. They hide in caves.
They send suiciders out."-Speaking about terrorists, Portsmouth, N.H., Nov.
1, 2002
"I know something about being a government. And you've got a good
one."-Stumping for Gov. Mike Huckabee, Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 4, 2002
"I need to be able to move the right people to the right place at the right
time to protect you, and I'm not going to accept a lousy bill out of the
United Nations
Senate."-South Bend, Ind., Oct. 31, 2002
 "John Thune has got a common-sense vision for good forest policy. I look
forward to working with him in the United Nations Senate to preserve these
national heritages."
"Any time we've got any kind of inkling that somebody is thinking about
doing something to an American and something to our homeland, you've just
got to know we're
moving on it, to protect the United Nations Constitution, and at the same
time, we're protecting you."-Aberdeen, S.D., same day (Thanks to George
Dupper.)
"Let me tell you my thoughts about tax relief. When your economy is kind of
ooching along, it's important to let people have more of their own
money."-Boston, Oct. 4, 2002
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"I was proud the other day when both Republicans and Democrats stood with me
in the Rose Garden to announce their support for a clear statement of
purpose: you disarm,
or we will."-Speaking about Saddam Hussein, Manchester, N.H., Oct. 5, 2002
(Thanks to George Dupper.)
"You see, the Senate wants to take away some of the powers of the
administrative branch."-Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002
"We need an energy bill that encourages consumption."-Trenton, N.J., Sept.
23, 2002
"People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight
evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house
and say I love
you."-Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002
"I'm plowed of the leadership of Chuck Grassley and Greg Ganske and Jim
Leach."-Davenport, Iowa, Sept. 16, 2002
"There's an old saying in Tennessee-I know it's in Texas, probably in
Tennessee-that says, fool me once, shame on-shame on you. Fool me-you can't
get fooled
again."-Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
"There's no doubt in my mind that we should allow the world worst leaders to
hold America hostage, to threaten our peace, to threaten our friends and
allies with the world's
worst weapons."-South Bend, Ind., Sept. 5, 2002
"If you don't have any ambitions, the minimum-wage job isn't going to get
you to where you want to get, for example. In other words, what is your
ambitions? And oh, by the
way, if that is your ambition, here's what it's going to take to achieve
it."-Speech to students in Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 29, 2002 (Thanks to
George Dupper.)
"See, we love-we love freedom. That's what they didn't understand. They hate
things; we love things. They act out of hatred; we don't seek revenge, we
seek justice out of
love."-Oklahoma City, Aug. 29, 2002
"There's no cave deep enough for America, or dark enough to hide."-Oklahoma
City, Aug. 29, 2002 (Thanks to Michael Shively.)
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"President Musharraf, he's still tight with us on the war against terror,
and that's what I appreciate. He's a-he understands that we've got to keep
al-Qaida on the run, and
that by keeping him on the run, it's more likely we will bring him to
justice."-Ruch, Ore., Aug. 22, 2002 (Thanks to Scott Miller.)
"I'm a patient man. And when I say I'm a patient man, I mean I'm a patient
man."
"Nothing he [Saddam Hussein] has done has convinced me-I'm confident the
Secretary of Defense-that he is the kind of fellow that is willing to forgo
weapons of mass
destruction, is willing to be a peaceful neighbor, that is-will honor the
people-the Iraqi people of all stripes, will-values human life. He hasn't
convinced me, nor has he
convinced my administration."-Crawford, Texas, Aug. 21, 2002
"I'm thrilled to be here in the bread basket of America because it gives me
a chance to remind our fellow citizens that we have an advantage here in
America-we can feed
ourselves."-Stockton, Calif., Aug. 23, 2002 (Thanks to Christopher Baird.)
"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country."
"The federal government and the state government must not fear programs who
change lives, but must welcome those faith-based programs for the
embetterment of
mankind."-Stockton, Calif., Aug. 23, 2002 (Thanks to George Dupper.)
"I love the idea of a school in which people come to get educated and stay
in the state in which they're educated."
"There may be some tough times here in America. But this country has gone
through tough times before, and we're going to do it again."
"I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I
wasn't here."
"I can assure you that, even though I won't be sitting through every single
moment of the seminars, nor will the vice president, we will look at the
summaries."
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"Tommy [Thompson, Health and Human Services secretary,] is a good listener,
and he's a pretty good actor, too."
"The trial lawyers are very politically powerful. . But here in Texas we
took them on and got some good medical-medical malpractice.""I firmly
believe the death tax is good
for people from all walks of life all throughout our society."-Waco, Texas,
Aug. 13, 2002
"There was no malfeance involved. This was an honest disagreement about
accounting procedures. ... There was no malfeance, no attempt to hide
anything."-White House
press conference, Washington, D.C., July 8, 2002
"I also understand how tender the free enterprise system can be."-White
House press conference, Washington, D.C., July 9, 2002
"Over 75 percent of white Americans own their home, and less than 50 percent
of Hispanos and African Americans don't own their home. And that's a gap,
that's a
homeownership gap. And we've got to do something about it."-Cleveland, Ohio,
July 1, 2002
"Whether you're here by birth, or whether you're in America by choice, you
contribute to the vitality of our life. And for that, we are
grateful."-Washington, D.C., May 17,
2002
"I'd rather have them sacrificing on behalf of our nation than, you know,
endless hours of testimony on congressional hill."-National Security Agency,
Fort Meade, Maryland,
June 4, 2002
"We're working with Chancellor Schröder on what's called 10-plus-10-over-10:
$10 billion from the U.S.,$10 billion from other members of the G7 over a
10-year period, to
help Russia securitize the dismantling-the dismantled nuclear
warheads."-Berlin, Germany, May 23, 2002
"Do you have blacks, too?"-To Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso,
Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001
"This is a nation that loves our freedom, loves our country."-Washington,
D.C, May 17, 2002
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"The public education system in America is one of the most important
foundations of our democracy. After all, it is where children from all over
America learn to be
responsible citizens, and learn to have the skills necessary to take
advantage of our fantastic opportunistic society."-Santa Clara, Calif., May
1, 2002
"After all, a week ago, there were-Yasser Arafat was boarded up in his
building in Ramallah, a building full of, evidently, German peace protestors
and all kinds of people.
They're now out. He's now free to show leadership, to lead the
world."-Washington, D.C., May 2, 2002 (Thanks to M. Bateman.)
"This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating."-as quoted by the New
York Daily News, April 23, 2002
"I want to thank the dozens of welfare to work stories, the actual examples
of people who made the firm and solemn commitment to work hard to embetter
themselves."-Washington, D.C., April 18, 2002 (Thanks to George Dupper.)
"And so, in my State of the-my State of the Union-or state-my speech to the
nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation-I asked Americans
to give 4,000
years-4,000 hours over the next-the rest of your life-of service to America.
That's what I asked-4,000 hours." -Bridgeport, Conn., April 9, 2002
"It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of
human cloning to come out of that chamber."-Washington, D.C., April 10, 2002
"For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the
great and enduring alliances of modern times."-Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 18, 2002
"We've tripled the amount of money-I believe it's from $50 million up to
$195 million available."-Lima, Peru, March 23, 2002
"We've got pockets of persistent poverty in our society, which I refuse to
declare defeat-I mean, I refuse to allow them to continue on. And so one of
the things that we're
trying to do is to encourage a faith-based initiative to spread its wings
all across America, to be able to capture this great compassionate
spirit."-O'Fallon, Mo., Mar. 18,
2002
"There's nothing more deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist. That's
the most deep thought of all. ... I can't think of anything more deep than
that right."-Washington,
D.C., March 13, 2002
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"I understand that the unrest in the Middle East creates unrest throughout
the region."-Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002
"The suicide bombings have increased. There's too many of
them."-Albuquerque, N.M., Aug. 15, 2001
"Brie and cheese."-Taunting a reporter who recently spent time on the West
Coast, Crawford, Texas, Aug. 23, 2001
"You'll hear people say it's racist to test. Folks, it's racist not to test.
Because guess who gets shuffled through the system oftentimes? Children
whose parents don't speak
English as a first language, inner-city kids. It's so much easier to quit on
somebody than to remediate."-Referring to his education bill, Independence,
Mo., Aug. 21, 2001
(Thanks to Julie Reagan.)
"One of the interesting initiatives we've taken in Washington, D.C., is
we've got these vampire-busting devices. A vampire is a-a cell deal you can
plug in the wall to charge
your cell phone."-Denver, Aug. 14, 2001
"There's a lot of people in the Middle East who are desirous to get into the
Mitchell process. And-but first things first. The-these terrorist acts and,
you know, the responses
have got to end in order for us to get the framework-the groundwork-not
framework, the groundwork to discuss a framework for peace, to lay the-all
right."-Referring to
former Sen. George Mitchell's report on Middle East peace, Crawford, Texas,
Aug. 13, 2001 (Thanks to Michael Shively.)
"My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the-in the
Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the
different parties involved that
peace will never happen."-Crawford, Texas, Aug, 13, 2001 (Thanks to Michael
Shively.)
"You saw the president yesterday. I thought he was very forward-leaning, as
they say in diplomatic nuanced circles."-Referring to his meeting with
Russian President
Vladimir Putin, Rome, July 23, 2001 (Thanks to Alex Hernandez.)
''I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and
what I believe-I believe what I believe is right."-Rome, July 22, 2001
"I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking
about the greatness of America. But the true greatness of America are the
people."-Visiting the
Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C., July 2, 2001
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"Well, it's an unimaginable honor to be the president during the Fourth of
July of this country. It means what these words say, for starters. The great
inalienable rights of our
country. We're blessed with such values in America. And I-it's-I'm a proud
man to be the nation based upon such wonderful values."-Visiting the
Jefferson Memorial,
Washington, D.C., July 2, 2001
"I want to thank you for coming to the White House to give me an opportunity
to urge you to work with these five senators and three congressmen, to work
hard to get this
trade promotion authority moving. The power that be, well most of the power
that be, sits right here."-Washington, D.C., June 18, 2001
"We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a
nation that suffers from incredible disease."-Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14,
2001
"I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I
can live with if we don't."-Referring to the McCain-Kennedy patients' bill
of rights, Brussels, Belgium,
June 13, 2001
"Can't living with the bill means it won't become law."-Referring to the
McCain-Kennedy patients' bill of rights, Brussels, Belgium, June 13, 2001
"Russia is no longer our enemy and therefore we shouldn't be locked into a
Cold War mentality that says we keep the peace by blowing each other up. In
my attitude, that's
old, that's tired, that's stale."-Des Moines, Iowa, June 8, 2001
"Anyway, I'm so thankful, and so gracious-I'm gracious that my brother Jeb
is concerned about the hemisphere as well."-Miami, Fla., June 4, 2001
"It's important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to
understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots."-Remarks
to the University of
Nebraska women's volleyball team, the 2001 national champions, Washington,
D.C., May 31, 2001
"Our nation must come together to unite."-Tampa, Fla., June 4, 2001
"So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve
something greater than themselves, congratulations."-Remarks to the
University of Nebraska
women's volleyball team, the 2001 national champions, Washington, D.C., May
31, 2001
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"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."-Remarks to the
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Institute, Washington, D.C., May 22, 2001
"Thirdly, the explorationists are willing to only move equipment during the
winter, which means they'll be on ice roads, and remove the equipment as the
ice begins to melt,
so that the fragile tundra is protected."-Conestoga, Pa., May 18, 2001
"Presidents, whether things are good or bad, get the blame. I understand
that."-Washington, D.C., May 11, 2001 (Thanks to Jay Schlossberg.)
"For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings.
And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And
we're going to do something
about it."-Philadelphia, May 14, 2001 (Thanks to John Brooks.)
"There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the
horizon were getting nearly directly overhead."-Washington, D.C., May 11,
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."-Washington, D.C., May 1, 2001 (Thanks to Gene Mosher.)
"Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself."-On how far we'd be
willing to go to defend Taiwan, Good Morning America, April 25, 2001
"First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor
a treaty that I thought made sense for the country."-On the Kyoto accord in
an interview with the
Washington Post, April 24, 2001
"It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade,
there's more commerce."-Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001
"Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican."-Declining to answer
reporters' questions at the Summit of the Americas, Quebec City, Canada,
April 21, 2001
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"We must have the attitude that every child in America-regardless of where
they're raised or how they're born-can learn."-New Britain, Conn., April 18,
2001 (Thanks to
Eric Beerbohm.)
"It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and
name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for
their children."-Remarks
on "parental empowerment in education," Washington, D.C., April 12, 2001
(Thanks to J.R. Taylor.)
I think we're making progress. We understand where the power of this country
lay. It lays in the hearts and souls of Americans. It must lay in our
pocketbooks. It lays in the
willingness for people to work hard. But as importantly, it lays in the fact
that we've got citizens from all walks of life, all political parties, that
are willing to say, I want to love
my neighbor. I want to make somebody's life just a little bit
better."-Concord Middle School, Concord, N.C., April 11, 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."-Washington, D.C.,
April 10, 2001
"The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only
reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so that people
who build up assets
are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a
person's race."-Washington, D.C., April 5, 2001
"It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge).
I think it's a mistake not to. And I would urge you all to travel up there
and take a look at it, and
you can make the determination as to how beautiful that country is."-Press
conference, Washington, D.C., March 29, 2001
"I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and
Hispanically."-Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner,
Washington, D.C., March 29, 2001
"And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California
and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly."-Press
conference, Washington,
D.C., March 29, 2001
"I assured the prime minister, my administration will work hard to lay the
foundation of peace in the Middle-to work with our nations in the Middle
East, give peace a
chance. Secondly, I told him that our nation will not try to force peace,
that we'll facilitate peace and that we will work with those responsible for
a peace."-Photo
opportunity with Ariel Sharon, Washington, D.C., March 20, 2001 (Thanks to
Scott Beber.)
"There are some monuments where the land is so widespread, they just
encompass as much as possible. And the integral part of the-the precious
part, so to speak-I
guess all land is precious, but the part that the people uniformly would not
want to spoil, will not be despoiled. But there are parts of the monument
lands where we can
explore without affecting the overall environment."-Media round table,
Washington, D.C. March 13, 2001
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"A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are
that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically owned or otherwise-pay taxes
at the highest
marginal rate."-to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; Washington, D.C., March
19, 2001
"But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not
very transparent, that hide behind the-that don't let people in to take a
look and see what they're
up to. They're very kind of authoritarian regimes. The true threat is
whether or not one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us
hostage, ourselves; the Israelis,
for example, to whom we'll defend, offer our defenses; the South
Koreans."-Media roundtable, Washington, D.C., March 13, 2001 (Thanks to
Peter Sagal)
"I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That's an
important part of building morale in the military."-Tyndall Air Force Base,
Florida, March 12, 2001
"I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same
questions: How'd your meeting go with so-and-so? . How did you feel when you
stood up in front of
the people for the State of the Union Address-state of the budget address,
whatever you call it."-Interview with the Washington Post, March 9, 2001
"I think there is some methodology in my travels." -Washington, D.C., March
5, 2001
"I'm also honored to be here with the speaker of the House-just happens to
be from the state of Illinois. I'd like to describe the speaker as a
trustworthy man. He's the kind
of fellow who says when he gives you his word he means it. Sometimes that
doesn't happen all the time in the political process."-Chicago, March 6,
2001 (Thanks to Gary
Belkin.)
"Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must
be open."-Swearing-in ceremony for Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman,
Washington, D.C.,
March 2, 2001
"Of all states that understands local control of schools, Iowa is such a
state."-Council Bluffs, Iowa, Feb. 28, 2001 (Thanks to Peter Sagal)
"Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland,
we understand how unfair the death penalty is."-Omaha, Neb., Feb. 28, 2001
"My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt."-Budget
address to Congress, Feb. 27, 2001
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"The budget caps were busted, mightily so. And we are reviewing with people
like Judd Gregg from New Hampshire and others some budgetary reform measures
that will
reinstate-you know, possibly reinstate budgetary discipline. But the caps no
longer-the caps, I guess they're there. But they didn't mean
much."-Washington, D.C., Feb. 5,
2001 (Thanks to Ehren Meditz)
"I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese-that meant that
they weren't very effective."-White House press conference, Washington,
D.C., Feb. 22, 2001
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy
test.''-Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001
"Home is important. It's important to have a home."-Crawford, Texas, Feb.
18, 2001
"One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the
ability to be a good student. And if you can't read, it's going to be hard
to realize dreams; it's going
to be hard to go to college. So when your teachers say, read-you ought to
listen to her."-Nalle Elementary School, Washington, D.C., Feb 9, 2001
"It's good to see so many friends here in the Rose Garden. This is our first
event in this beautiful spot, and it's appropriate we talk about policy that
will affect people's lives in
a positive way in such a beautiful, beautiful part of our national-really,
our national park system, my guess is you would want to call
it."-Washington, D.C., Feb. 8, 2001
"We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House-make no mistake about
it."-Washington, D.C., Feb. 7, 2001
"I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a
lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important
bridge between church and
state."-Question and answer session with the press, Jan. 29, 2001 (Thanks to
Tim Santry.)
"I confirmed to the prime minister that we appreciate our friendship."-After
meeting with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada, Feb. 5, 2001
"There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll
never see it."-To Catholic leaders at the White House, Jan. 31, 2001
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"I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for
predecessors as well."-Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2001
"My pro-life position is I believe there's life. It's not necessarily based
in religion. I think there's a life there, therefore the notion of life,
liberty and pursuit of
happiness."-Quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 23, 2001
"Then I went for a run with the other dog and just walked. And I started
thinking about a lot of things. I was able to-I can't remember what it was.
Oh, the inaugural
speech, started thinking through that."-Pre-inaugural interview with U.S.
News & World Report, Jan. 22, 2001 issue
"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."-Interview with
the New York Times, Jan. 14, 2001 (Thanks to Rachael Contorer.)
"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."-Interview with the
New York Times, Jan. 14, 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."-Interview with the Associated Press, Jan. 18, 2001 (Thanks to M.
Bateman.)
"If he's-the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a-is a noble
institution I would-I would strongly reject that assumption-that John
Ashcroft is a open-minded,
inclusive person."-NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw, Jan. 14, 2001
"She's just trying to make sure Anthony gets a good meal-Antonio."-On Laura
Bush inviting Justice Antonin Scalia to dinner at the White House. NBC
Nightly News With Tom
Brokaw, Jan. 14, 2001
"I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented
administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and
energy on teaching children
to read and having an education system that's responsive to the child and to
the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, will
make America what we
want it to be-a literate country and a hopefuller country."-Washington,
D.C., Jan. 11, 2001
"I would have to ask the questioner. I haven't had a chance to ask the
questioners the question they've been questioning. On the other hand, I
firmly believe she'll be a fine
secretary of labor. And I've got confidence in Linda Chavez. She is a-she'll
bring an interesting perspective to the Labor Department."-Austin, Texas,
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"I do remain confident in Linda. She'll make a fine labor secretary. From
what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly qualified."-Austin,
Texas, Jan. 8, 2001
"I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their
business. And, like them, I am very optimistic about our position in the
world and about its
influence on the United States. We're concerned about the short-term
economic news, but long-term I'm optimistic. And so, I hope investors, you
know-secondly, I hope
investors hold investments for periods of time-that I've always found the
best investments are those that you salt away based on economics."-Austin,
Texas, Jan. 4, 2001
"The person who runs FEMA is someone who must have the trust of the
president. Because the person who runs FEMA is the first voice, often times,
of someone whose life
has been turned upside down hears from."-Austin, Texas, Jan. 4, 2001
"She is a member of a labor union at one point."-Announcing his nomination
of Linda Chavez as secretary of labor. Austin, Texas, Jan. 2, 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."-Austin, Texas, Dec.
20, 2000
"I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel
Martinez from the state of Florida."-Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
"Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person."- Interview
with Time magazine in the Dec. 25, 2000, issue.
"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."-Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 2000
"The great thing about America is everybody should vote."-Austin, Texas,
Dec. 8, 2000
"Dick Cheney and I do not want this nation to be in a recession. We want
anybody who can find work to be able to find work."-60 Minutes II, Dec. 5,
2000
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"I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion
before finality has finally happened in this presidential race."
-Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000
"As far as the legal hassling and wrangling and posturing in Florida, I
would suggest you talk to our team in Florida led by Jim Baker."-Crawford,
Texas, Nov. 30, 2000
"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to
interpret law."-Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
"They misunderestimated me."-Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
"Think about that. Two hundred and eighty-five new or expanded programs, $2
trillion more in new spending, and not one new bureaucrat to file out the
forms or answer the
phones?"-Minneapolis, Nov. 1, 2000
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some
kind of federal program."-St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
"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."-Portland, Ore., Oct. 31, 2000
"Anyway, after we go out and work our hearts out, after you go out and help
us turn out the vote, after we've convinced the good Americans to vote, and
while they're at it,
pull that old George W. lever, if I'm the one, when I put my hand on the
Bible, when I put my hand on the Bible, that day when they swear us in, when
I put my hand on the
Bible, I will swear to not-to uphold the laws of the land."-Toledo, Ohio,
Oct. 27, 2000
"It's your money. You paid for it."-LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000
"That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that
most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This
is the first chapter of the
21st century. "-On the Lewinsky scandal, Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24,
2000
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"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's
not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the
dark dungeons of the
Internet."-Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000
"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
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"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.)
"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
"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of
our imports come from overseas."-Beaverton, Ore., Sep. 25, 2000
"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.)
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"I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans."-Oprah, Sept. 19, 2000
"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
"They have miscalculated me as a leader."-Ibid.
"I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our
views on prescription drugs."-Orlando, Fla., Sept. 12, 2000
"This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like
interfacing with them."-Outside Pittsburgh, Sept. 8, 2000
"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
"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
"We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of
Americans."-Scranton, Pa., Sept. 6, 2000
"I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate
made it through the public airways."-Allentown, Pa., Sept. 5, 2000.
"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
"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
"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it,
that's trustworthiness."--Ibid.
"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
''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
ahead."-Ibid.
"We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold
our allies hostile.''-Ibid.
"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings
people together."-Bartlett, Tenn., Aug. 18, 2000 (Thanks to Tarja Black.)
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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.)
"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.)
"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
"You might want to comment on that, Honorable."--To New Jersey's secretary
of state, the Hon. DeForest Soaries Jr., as quoted by Dana Milbank in the
Washington Post, July
15, 2000
"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.)
"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.)
"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, July 1, 2000 (Thanks to M. Bateman.)
"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
"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.)
"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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 "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.)
"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.)
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.)
"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.
"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
"He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the
results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to
be."-On Rudy Giuliani, The
Edge With Paula Zahn, May 18, 2000 (Thanks to Peter Goldman.)
"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.)
"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.)
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
"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.)
"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until
we get an objective analysis."-CNBC, April 15, 2000
"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.)
"I was raised in the West. The wesv 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 (Thanks to Carl LaRocca.)
"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
"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
"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
"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.)
"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in
nature.''-Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000
"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
"I understand small business growth. I was one."-New York Daily News, Feb.
19, 2000
"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
"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
"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?"-Newsweek, Feb. 28,
2000
"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.
"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
"We ought to make the pie higher."-South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb.
15, 2000
"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
"I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less-I pontificate less,
although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm more interacting
with people."-ibid
"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
"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
"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29,
2000
"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
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."-Greater Nashua,
N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000
"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
(Thanks to Toni L. Gould.)
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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
"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
"This is still a dangerous world.  It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mential losses."-At a South Carolina oyster roast, as quoted
in the Financial Times,
Jan. 14, 2000
"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you
like to be liked yourself."-ibid.
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"-Florence, S.C.,
Jan. 11, 2000
"Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure."-ibid.
"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
"I read the newspaper."-In answer to a question about his reading habits,
New Hampshire Republican Debate, Dec. 2, 1999
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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 as quoted by
Knight Ridder News
Service, June 22, 1999. Bush's meeting was with Janez Drnovsek, the prime
minister of Slovenia.
"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
"Keep good relations with the Grecians."-Quoted in the Economist, June 12,
1999
"Kosovians can move back in."-CNN Inside Politics, April 9, 1999
"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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Serie continuamente aggiornata.
Giano

Pardon George!
Sono solo 324; le prime quattro sono state ripetute.
Se qualcuno ha quattro "doppioni" ce li scambiamo.
Giano

 ha scritto nel messaggio
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"I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut
off by Saddam Hussein."-Washington, D.C., May 25, 2004
Puro genio. Ponson du Terrail non avrebbe saputo fare di meglio.
Namib

 off by Saddam Hussein."
ROTFL