[CUGreens] FW: [Fwd: Fun- Bushisms]

[cathy@indra.com]

>>The Complete Bushisms
>>Updated weekly.
>>http://politics.slate.msn.com/Features/bushisms/bushisms.asp
>>>Compiled by Jacob Weisberg

>>>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
>>
>>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
>>
>>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
>>
>>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 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
>>
>>And if he continues that, I'm going to tell the nation what I think
>>about him as a human being and a person.
>>        -  on the Today show, Aug. 1, 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
>>
>>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
>>
>>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
>>
>>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
>>
>>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
>>
>>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
>>
>>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
>>
>>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
>>
>>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
>>
>>I think we agree, the past is over.
>>        - On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10,
>>2000
>>
>>It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
>>        - -Reuters, May 5, 2000
>>
>>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
>>
>>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
>>
>>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.,
>>3/28/2000
>>
>>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
>>
>>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
>>
>>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
>>
>>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
>>
>>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. Quoted in the Los Angeles Times,
>>1/28/00
>>
>>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
>>
>>When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who
>>they were. It was us vs. them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we
>>are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.
>>        - Iowa Western Community College, Jan 21, 2000
>>
>>We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you
>>like to be liked yourself.
>>        - ibid.
>>
>>Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.
>>        - ibid.
>>
>>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 Nov. 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
>>
>>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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