"One power, with a president who has no foresight, 
who cannot think properly, 
is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust."
- Nelson Mandela
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 "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
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"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." 
- George W.'s interview with Brit Hume on Fox News Channel, Washington, D.C., Sep. 21, 2003
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"Mr. Bush's ignorance may reflect his lack of curiosity: 
"The best way to get the news," he says, "is from objective sources. 
And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff."  Two words: emperor, clothes." 
- "A Willful Ignorance", "by Paul Krugman, The New York Times,10.28.03
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"The incurious President was so opaque on some important issues that top Cabinet officials
 were left guessing his mind even after face-to-face meetings."
 - "Confessions of a White House Insider", by John F. Dickerson, TIME magazine, 1.12.04
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"...But it is worrisome when one of the most incurious men ever to occupy the White House takes 
pains to insist that he gets his information on what the world is saying only in predigested bits from his appointees." 
- "The Presidential Bubble", New York Times Editorial, 9.29.03
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"The incurious George, who has said he prefers to get his information from his inner circle 
rather than newspapers or TV, may finally be waking up to the downside of such self-censorship.
 You can end up hearing a lot of bogus, self-serving garbage from Ahmad Chalabi, 
via Mr. Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz, instead of unpleasant reality. "  
 - " A Tale of Two Fathers", by Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, 10.12.03
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"It is entirely possible that President Bush really does not know
 that his approach to the war on terror has been a failure.
 Whether he scans the headlines, as Laura suggests, or really does avoid contact with 
news that  has not been filtered by his staff, all indications are that this president is not a curious man. 
And his lack of curiosity is not just frightening. In times like these, it is dangerous."
- "Not-so-Curious George (Bush)", Capitol Times | Editorial , July 19, 2004
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"First, George W. Bush, despite laudable personal and family characteristics, is remarkably incurious and ill read. 
Gut instincts can carry even a gifted politician only so far. And a lack of knowledge leaves him vulnerable to simplistic
 remedies to complex problems, especially when it comes to turning America into the globe's governess." 
- "The Conservative Case Against George W. Bush" by Doug Bandow, The American Conservative, 12.1.03
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"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case."
- George W. Bush, Pella, Iowa, Jan. 30, 2000
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"How do you know if you don't measure,
 if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?" 
 - George W. Bush, explaining the need for educational accountability in Beaufort, S.C., Feb.16, 2000
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"Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?"
 - George W. Bush, Florence, SC, Jan. 11, 2000
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"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."
 - George W. Bush, Feb. 21, 2001
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"Then you wake up at the high school level and find out that
the illiteracy level of our children are appalling." 
-Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004
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"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 more literate country and a hopefuller country." 
- George W. Bush, Jan. 2001
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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." 
 - George W. Bush, May 1, 2002
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"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometime until we get an objective analysis."
- George W. Bush,Meet the Press, April 15, 2000
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"We have struggle to not proceed but to preceed to the future of a nation's child."
- Journal Gazette 11/12/00
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"Education belongs to everybody. High standards belongs to everybody."
- Yes they does... White House, Oct. 2, 2003
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"We want results in every single classroom so that one single child is left behind."
- Wonder who's the lucky kid? Little Rock, Arkansas, Nov. 10, 2003
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"We want our teachers to know how to teach the science of reading,
in order to make sure there's not this kind of federal cufflink."
- At Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, March 30, 2000
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"I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children." 
- Second presidential debate,Oct. 11, 2000 
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"It is -- it seems like to me a fantastic opportunity for the country, to make sure that 
the desires of this country are met, and that is every child become a good reader."
  - On education, Landover, Maryland, Jul. 7, 2003
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"Sitting down and reading a 500-page book on public policy or philosophy or something." 
- George W. Bush when asked to name something he isn't good at (Talk magazine, September 1999)

"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."
- George W. Bush, in a pre-inaugural interview with U.S. News & World Report
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"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."
 - George W. Bush, in a speech at a literary council in Idaho
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"Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of 'Hop on Pop." 
- George W. Bush, in a speech about childhood education, Washington, D.C., April 2, 2002
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"It is white." 
- George W. Bush, asked by a child in Britain what the White House was like, July 19, 2001
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"I want the folks to see me sitting in the same kind of seat they sit in, eating the same popcorn, peeing in the same urinal."
 - Explaining his choice to sit "among the fans" when involved in management of the Texas Rangers, interview with Time Magazine, 1989
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"I'm really skeptical of people who try to parlay exposure at sporting events into votes." 
- Duhbya on the campaign trail, on his way to the Kentucky Derby
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"There's no negotiations with these terrorists," he said. "You know, you don't sign a treaty with people who are --
 -- who don't believe in rules, people who don't have a conscience."
 - George W. Bush, 22 April 2004
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"International law? I better call my lawyer! 
 I don't know what you're talking about, about international law." 
- W's response to questions about the administration's handing out 
of reconstruction contracts in Iraq, Dec.11, 2003hf
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"I'm gonna talk about the ideal world, Chris. I've read - I understand reality. 
If you're asking me as the president, would I understand reality, I do."
 - George W. Bush, on MSNBC's "Hardball"
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"I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war.
- Dubya doing a sterling job of belittling war and parenting at the same time, 
while also backhandedly manufacturing a war record for himself out of thin air, Jan. 27, 2002
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"I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment. 
Nor was I willing to go to Canada. So I chose to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes."  
- George W. Bush, 1994.  Source: MSNBC
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"The fact that he relies on facts - says things that are not factual - are going to undermine his campaign."
 - George W. Bush on Al Gore, New York Times, March 4, 2000
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"And if he continues that, I'm going to tell the nation what I think about him as a human being and a person."
 -Today show, Aug. 1, 2000

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 "He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you --
-- he really is an idiot."
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"It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then."  
-George W. Bush, reflecting in 1994 about growing up in Midland, Texas

"Really proud of it. A great campaign. 
And I'm really pleased with the organization and the thousands of 
South Carolinians that worked on my behalf.  And I'm very gracious and humbled." 
- To Cokie Roberts, This Week, Feb. 20, 2000
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"Anyway, I'm so thankful, and so gracious -- I'm gracious that my brother Jeb 
is concerned about the hemisphere as well."
- Miami, Florida, June 4, 2001
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"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

"I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft." 
- Second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004
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"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."
 - George W. Bush, Portland, Ore., Oct. 31, 2000
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"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."
- George W Bush, Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 23, 2000
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"It seemed to me they based some of their decisions on the word of - and the allegations - by people who were held in detention, 
people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble - that means not tell the truth," 
Bush said. He appeared to have intended to use the word "dissemble."
- The Washington Post, June 1, 2005
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"I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. 
And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university." 
- George W. Bush, Today, Feb. 23, 2000
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 I don't think we need to be subliminable [sic] about the differences between our views on prescription drugs." 
- Orlando, Fla., Se/pt. 12, 2000
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"The idea of putting subliminable [sic] messages into ads is ridiculous." 
- George W. Bush, Sept. 2000
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"What I'm against is quotas. I'm against hard quotas, quotas that basically delineate based upon whatever.
 However they delineate, quotas, I think, vulcanize society." 
- George W. Bush, meaning to say "balkanize," not "vulcanize" -- we think -- and something about quotas (Austin American-Statesman 3/23/99).
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"How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?"
  - Explaining the need for educational accountability in Beaufort, S.C., Feb.16, 2000
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"This is Preservation month. I appreciate preservation. This is what you do when you run for president. You've got to preserve." 
- George W. Bush to several hundred children at an elementary school in Nashua that was celebrating 
what it called Perseverance Month (not Preservation Month)
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"I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans." 
- Oprah, Sept. 19, 2000 
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subliminable messages are gonna work on me...
I'm way too smart... and besides, the Lord guides my every move..."

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 "Now, in terms of youngsters who are looking for -- you know, who are searching for a future, 
if there's a hopeless future there may be an opportunity to convert them into potential suiciders or potential killers."
- George W. Bush May 14, 2002
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"These people don't have tanks. They don't have ships. They hide in caves. They send suiciders out."
- George W. Bush, Nov. 1, 2002
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 "I believe he wants peace for his people, I truly do.  I mean, he's a man who has presided over suiciders."
- George W. Bush, Nov. 17, 2003
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"It is dangerous in Iraq because there are some who believe that we're soft, 
that the will of the United States can be shaken by suiciders -- and suiciders who are willing to drive up to a Red Cross center, 
a center of international help and aid and comfort, and just kill."
 - George W. Bush, Oct. 28, 2003
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"We've discovered mass graves with over 300,000 people there, rape rooms and torture rooms. 
He is paying suiciders to go kill innocent Israelis." 
- George W. Bush, Nov. 17, 2003
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"It is dangerous in Iraq because there are some who believe that we're soft, 
that the will of the United States can be shaken by suiciders--and suiciders who are willing to 
drive up to a Red Cross center, a center of international help and aid and comfort, and just kill.... 
The strategy remains the same. The tactics to respond to more suiciders driving cars will alter on the ground."
- When Dubya makes up a word, he sure sticks to it, White House, Oct. 28, 2003

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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."
 - George W. Bush, speaking to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, March 19, 2001
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"I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically." 
- George W. Bush, speaking at the Radio & Television Correspondents dinner, March 29, 2001

"They misunderestimated me."
 - George W. Bush, Nov. 2000
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"The folks who conducted to act on our country on September 11th made a big mistake. 
They underestimated America. They underestimated our resolve, our determination, our love for freedom.
 They misunderestimated the fact that we love a neighbor in need. They misunderestimated the compassion of our country. 
I think they misunderestimated the will and determination of the Commander-in-Chief, too."
 - George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 26, 2001 

"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness."
 - George W. Bush, in a CNN online chat, Aug. 2000





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"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." 
- Reuters, May 5, 2000
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"A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness." 
- George W. Bush, Sept. 2000
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"My pan plays down (sic) an unprecedented amount of our national debt."`
 - Budget address to Congress, Feb. 27, 2001
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"It's going to require numerous IRA agents."
- On Gore's tax plan, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000
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"We want to make sure our wallets all across the country are healthy."
- Dubya proposes a health care plan for wallets, Philadelpia, Pennsylvania, Jan. 31, 2004

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"My opponent seems to think that Social Security is a federal program."
- The final Presidential debate
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"They want the federal government controlling Social Security 
like it's some kind of federal program."
- St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
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"Down in Washington they're playing with Social Security
 like it's some kind of government program!"
- NBC Nightly News
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"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." 
- George W. Bush, Bridgeport, Conn., April 9, 2002
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"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."
 - George W. Bush, in an interview with the Washington Post, March 9, 2001
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"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." 
- George W. Bush, Feb. 8, 2001
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"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law." 
 - Dubya confusing the executive and the judicial branches of government in Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
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"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
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"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."
 - George W. Bush, speaking to reporters, Jan. 29, 2001
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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."
 -  Commenting on Linda Chavez, Jan. 2001 Austin, Texas, Jan. 8, 2001
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"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." 
- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 18, 2001
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"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." 
- George W. Bush, referring to the McCain-Kennedy patients' bill of rights, June 13, 2001
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"Can't living with the bill means it won't become law." 
- George W. Bush, referring to the McCain-Kennedy patients' bill of rights, June 13, 2001
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''I don't understand how poor people think.'"
- George W. Bush, confiding in the Rev. Jim Wallis, New York Times, 08-26-03
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"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." 
 - George W. Bush, Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce (New Hampshire), Jan. 27, 2000
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"We ought to make the pie higher." 
- George W. Bush
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"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."
- LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Oct. 18, 2000

"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." 
- George W. Bush, Dakar, Senegal, July 8, 2003
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"But I also made it clear to Pooty Poot [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
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"You saw the president yesterday. I thought he was very forward-leaning, as they say in diplomatic nuanced circles."
 - George W. Bush, referring to his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, July 23, 2001
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"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

"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 

f"I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy." 
- Redwood, Calif., Sept. 27, 2000 
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"This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating."
 - George W. Bush, as quoted by the New York Daily News, April 23, 2002
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"And then we marched to war, war in Afghanistan and Iraq, all of which affected the people's confidence. 
That's a tough -- tough hurdles to cross, when it came to our economy."
- Dubya sloppily blames himself for the bad economy, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Nov. 7, 2003
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"You say we're headed for war in Iraq. I don't know why you say that ... I'm the person who gets to decide, not you." 
- President Bush, speaking to reporters outside a cafe in Crawford, Texas

/"The mission  must be to fight and win war and therefore to prevent war from happening in the first place.'' 
- The day before Super Tuesday 2000 in San Diego, Mr. Bush  was talking about the need to give the military a new mission 
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- The first Presidential debate

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"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy 
-- but that could change."
- George W. Bush, 5/22/98
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"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier." 
- George W, Bush, describing what it's like to be governor of Texas. (Governing Magazine 7/98)
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"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."
- George W, Bush, CNN.com, December 18, 2000
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 "A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it, " 
- George W, Bush, Business Week, July 30, 20010ff
"I hear the voices, and I read the front page, and I know the speculation. 
But I'm the decider, and I decide what is best.
And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense."
- Camp David, April 18, 2006.  Five months later, "the decider" decided to let Rumsfeld go.
"We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans."
- Scranton, Pa., Sept. 6, 2000
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"You say we're headed for war in Iraq. I don't know why you say that ... I'm the person who gets to decide, not you."
 - President Bush, speaking to reporters outside a cafe in Crawford, Texas
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"The person who is in charge is me" 
- CNN, Tuesday, October 14, 2003
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"I'm the commander, I do not need to explain why I say things. 
That's the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain 
to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation...."
 - And this means you, AMERICA! George W. Bush, in an interview with Bob Woodward
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"States should have the right to enact reasonable  laws and restrictions particularly
 to end the inhumane practice  of ending a life that otherwise could live."  
- Cleveland, June 29, 2000
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"The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable 
with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty..
.. I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas."
 - All Things Considered, NPR, June 16
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"This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot.
 I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases." 
- Seattle Post-Intelligence, June 23, 2000 
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"Please! Don't kill me."
 - George W. Bush to Larry King, mocking what Karla Faye Tucker  said when asked 
"What would you say to Governor Bush?" prior to her execution by lethal injection 
(as reported by Talk magazine, September 1999

"There is madmen in the world, and there are terror."
 - George W. Bush, AP, 2/16/00
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"We need to counter the shock wave of the evildoer 
by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates"
 - G.W. Bush 10/4/01
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"International law? I better call my lawyer!  
I don't know what you're talking about, about international law." 
- George W. Bush, in response to the administration's handing out of reconstruction contracts in Iraq, Dec.11, 2003

"We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.'' 
- George W. Bush
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"You fucking son of a bitch. I saw what you wrote. We're not going to forget this. " 
- Said to Wall Street Journal columnist Al Hunt in 1986 at a Mexican diner in Dallas, in front of Hunt's wife and his four-year-old son.  
Bush was apparently both drunk and upset that Hunt had predicted that Jack Kemp would be the Republican Party nominee instead of his father.
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 "There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from The New York Times." Cheney replied, "Oh, yeah, big time".
 - "Bush: No apology for gaffe", BBC, 5 September, 2000 
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   Republican state Rep. Toby Goodman said Bush sought his support for property tax reductions near the start of the 1997 legislative 
sessionby grabbing Goodman's lapels during a face-to-face encounter.  "I want to bring those property taxes down," 
Bush told the legislator, "and I'm going to kick your butt if you don't go along with me." - 
- "Retaliation Over Iraq Fits Bush's Pattern", by Ron Hutcheson, Knight-Ridder Newspapers, 13 December 2003

 "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." 
 - George W. Bush, Oct. 5, 2002, Re Iraq debate in Congress White House Transcript
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"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." 
-  George W. Bush, Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 29, 2003

"We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers."
 - George W. Bush, Houston, Texas, September 6 2000
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"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." 
- George W. Bush, Crawford, Texas, May 3, 2003

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- George W. Bush, Pella, Iowa, Jan. 30, 2000y

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"I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong."
- George W. Bush, New York Times, March 15, 2000

 "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. 
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
- Washington, Aug. 5, 2004 
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"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." 
- G. W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 13, 2003
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"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." 
- New York Times, Jan. 14, 2001
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"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." 
- George W. Bush, Crawford, Texas, Aug, 13, 2001
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"It was amazing I won. I was running against peace and prosperity and incumbency." 
- Shockingly candid assessment of what he didn't bring to the table in the 2000 election
 made to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson, Gothenberg, Sweden, June 14, 2001
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"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."
- Yikes. White House, Oct. 27, 2003

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"I've got confidence in the Palestinians, when they understand fully what we're saying, 
that they'll make the right decisions," said Bush. But he warned:
 "I can assure you, we won't be putting money into a society which is not transparent and corrupt,
 and I suspect other countries won't either." 
- Reuters, 06.26.02
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"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
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"Unfairly but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against things. Anti-immigrant, for example.
 And we're not a party of anti-immigrants. Quite the opposite. We're a party that welcomes people." 
- George W. Bush, Cleveland, July 1, 2000

"Dick Cheney and I will be the president and vice president."
- Having trouble remembering his and Dick Cheney's respective roles in his upcoming administration, Nov. 30, 2000
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"There is a very good chance that Dick Cheney and I will be President and Vice President."
- A repeat performance of the Nov. 30 quote above, Nov. 11, 2000
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"Dick (Cheney) and I felt like we won the first election three times and we're confident that 
when it's all said and done that he and I will be honored to be the president and vice president."
- Yet again confirming the sense that Cheney's really in charge, Dec. 2, 2000
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"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." 
- George W. Bush, Jan. 2001
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"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign." 
- George W. Bush, Hilton Head, South Carolina, Feb. 16, 2000

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"It'll be hard to articulate."
 - George W. Bush, anticipating how he'll feel upon assuming the presidency, Jan. 2001

"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe - I believe what I believe is right."
- George W. Bush, in Rome, July 22, 2001
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"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question"
- Reynoldsburg, Ohio, October 4, 2000
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"If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it."
 - George W. Bush, during the third presidential debate
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"Public speaking is very easy." 
- Governor George W. Bush, Jr. to reporters, 10/9/2000

"I--you know, look, it's important for people to know that I've got a future that--I believe 
in a future that is peaceful, based upon liberty. And I remember my predecessor, 
whose life we mourn, Ronald Reagan, they felt the same way about him."
- We mourn Reagan's life? Well some of us might, but I didn't think Dubya did...
 Interview with Tom Brokaw, NBC, Jun. 6, 2004
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"Wait for us to succeed peace. Wait for us to have two states, side by side -
- is for everybody coming together to deny the killers the opportunity to destroy."
- Kennebunkport, Maine, June 15, 2003.
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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."
 - George W. Bush, visiting the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C., July 2, 2001
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"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."
 - Is it just us, or does Bush sound (more than usual) like Gollum from Lord of the Rings here? Toledo, Ohio, October 27 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

"Let me get to the U.N. and give what is an important speech for me."
- Just as long as it's important for Dubya, White House, Sep. 10, 2002
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"I understand small business growth. I was one."
- New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000
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"I had my first 'scope', as we say in the business, I think maybe five or six years ago.
 They discovered polyps for the first time."
- Dubya seeming to indicate heretofore unknown 
expertise in proctology, White House, June 28, 2002
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snrhhhe"Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country."
 - Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept 6, 2004
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