Famous Quotes from G W Bush

[Seeker_Of_Sins]

"A RESULTS-ORIENTED ADMINISTRATION… 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. AUSTIN, TEXAS, JAN. 8, 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

"THE GREAT THING ABOUT AMERICA IS EVERYBODY SHOULD VOTE."
AUSTIN, TEXAS, DEC. 8, 2000

"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

"THEY MISUNDERESTIMATED ME."
BENTONVILLE, ARK., NOV. 6, 2000

"THEY WANT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTROLLING SOCIAL SECURITY LIKE IT'S SOME KIND OF FEDERAL PROGRAM."
ST. CHARLES, MO., NOV. 2, 2000

" 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

"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."
--HARDBALL, MSNBC, MAY 31, 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

"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

"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 IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, FEB. 1, 2000

"WILL THE HIGHWAYS on THE INTERNET BECOME MORE FEW?"
-CONCORD, N.H., JAN. 29, 2000

"RARELY IS THE QUESTION ASKED: IS OUR CHILDREN LEARNING?"
-FLORENCE, S.C., JAN. 11, 2000

"THE IMPORTANT QUESTION IS, HOW MANY HANDS HAVE I SHAKED?"
IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, OCT. 23, 1999

"THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT THE MINUTE I GOT ELECTED, THE STORM CLOUDS on THE HORIZON WERE GETTING NEARLY DIRECTLY OVERHEAD." - MAY 11, 2001

"I HOPE THE AMBITIOUS REALIZE THAT THEY ARE MORE LIKELY TO SUCCEED WITH SUCCESS AS OPPOSED TO FAILURE." - JAN. 18, 2001

"I KNOW THE HUMAN BEING AND FISH CAN COEXIST PEACEFULLY." - SEP. 29, 2000

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
...George W. Bush

"[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system."
...George W. Bush


This man is a literary genious. lolol, feel free to add your own collection

[katar]

Where's the debate?

There are enough anti-Bush threads *with* substantive merit to obviate the need for one without.

You're quite the literary genious (sic) yourself.

[Seeker_Of_Sins]

Did I hurt your poor wee feelings katar?

[Section 8]

No, but I'm afraid that you've hurt the etiquette. This baby's going to general discussion, considering there is no debate.

[Seeker_Of_Sins]

Actually I disagree, the quotes should generate debate in the following areas.

1: Why would so many americans vote for someone who struggles to put together a coherent sentence?

2: If G W Bush struggles so much with basic english, how can anyone be sure what he has actually ordered them to do?

3: As G W Bush is the commander in chief of the army, what danger is he putting the world in by his inability to verbalise his commands?

4: What does it say about the american people's expectation of their education system when they vote in a president with such poor english skills?

5: How can we be sure that his instruction to invade Iraq was genuine when possibly he meant to send them a sternly worded letter and his staff misunderstood?

6: As the president of the USA indirectly has an effect on almost everyone on the planet, why would the international community allow someone with such poor verbalisation skills to be in this type of position?

These are the questions that immediately came to mind when I read these quotes. I understand that I didn't ask them at the time of my post but I do disagree about the fact that no debate was implied.

[gr8fuldaniel]

I agree Seeker. The only reason its really happening is because, Bush is more of a stooge or a puppet. The real brains of the operation are behind the scenes. Bush is there to take the heat, brush it off and come back for more.

[Nono]

From Reuters, 7 September:

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. - President Bush offered an unexpected reason on Monday for cracking down on frivolous medical lawsuits: "Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." The Republican president, long known for verbal and grammatical lapses, included the anecdote about obstetrician gynecologists in his stump speech attacking Democratic presidential rival Sen. John Kerry and his running mate, Sen. John Edwards, a former trial lawyer. At a rally of cheering supporters in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Bush made his usual pitch for limiting "frivolous lawsuits" that he said drive up the cost of health care and run doctors out of business. But then he added, "We've got an issue in America. Too many good docs are getting out of business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." Unfazed, Bush went on to deride his rivals as "pro-trial lawyer," and concluded, "I think you've got to make a choice. My opponent made his choice, and he put him on the ticket. I made my choice. I'm for medical liability reform now."

[rcne]

I'm a conservative, and I enjoyed this listing of misunderestimating Bush.

Correct me if I'm wrong, and I'm sure you will, but didn't Einstein have trouble with complete coherent sentences?

Not that I'm in anyway inferring GWB and Einstein are near the same level IQ wise.

English majors and lawyers, though well spoken, are not necessarily betters leaders, nor better people.

[bugsbunny04]

Was it him or his daddy, that told Australia, in their sign language, the equivilant of "the finger". My Soc 101 teacher told me about it, in discussion about body language.

[Nono]

Originally posted by rcne Correct me if I'm wrong, and I'm sure you will, but didn't Einstein have trouble with complete coherent sentences?

I have no idea, and as we know from dyslexia and a lot of other conditions, perfectly intelligent people can have some pretty eccentric (to us) communication difficulties. Are you familiar with Tourette syndrome? Very weird indeed. Yet many people affected by it are highly intelligent.

But in Dubbya's case I think there's something more to it. (By the way, I'm not one of those who thinks Bush is "stupid" -- to me he's way scarier than that.) Listening to Boy George makes me appreciate Freud so much more. Condi does too. Cheney is not human -- has no pulse -- and unless there's a Martian Freud, the question is moot. As for the rest of the Bush team, they speak from scripts.

Tell me, what exactly does a "conservative" expect the Bushistas to help him conserve? To me they look like stone radicals: they're all about change. For me, James Jeffords is a conservative. So is John McCain.

The Bushistas are "conservative" the way the Soviets were "socialist".