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"In the State of the Union a couple of years ago, I addressed the issue of steroids, and the reason I did so is because I understand the impact that professional athletes can have on our nation's youth. And I just urge our -- those in the public spotlight, particularly athletes, to understand that when they violate their bodies, they're sending a terrible signal to America's young." --George W. Bush, on the baseball steroids scandal, Dec. 14, 2007 "The decisions we make in Washington have a
direct impact on the people in our country, obviously." --George W.
Bush, New Albany, Ind., Nov. 13, 2007 "I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth,
either, by the way, unless I say it." --George W. Bush, Crawford,
Texas, Nov. 10, 2007
"We're going to -- we'll be sending a person
on the ground there pretty soon to help implement the malaria
initiative, and that initiative will mean spreading nets and
insecticides throughout the country so that we can see a reduction
in death of young children that -- a death that we can cure."
--George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Oct. 18, 2007 "I fully understand those who say you can't win this thing militarily. That's exactly what the United States military says, that you can't win this military." --George W. Bush, on the need for political progress in Iraq, Washington, D.C., Oct. 17, 2007 "My job is a decision-making job, and as a
result, I make a lot of decisions." --George W. Bush,
The Decider,
Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 3, 2007 (Watch
video clip) "I got a lot of
Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office
and say, 'Mr. President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen
carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide,
you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'" --George W.
Bush, Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 3, 2007 "You know, when you give a man more money in his pocket -- in this
case, a woman more money in her pocket to expand a business, it --
they build new buildings. And when somebody builds a new building
somebody has got to come and build the building. And when the
building expanded it prevented additional opportunities for people
to work." --George W. Bush, Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 3, 2007
"As yesterday's positive report card shows,
childrens do learn when standards are high and results are
measured." --George W. Bush, on the No Child Left Behind Act,
Washington, D.C., Sept. 26, 2007 (Watch
video clip) "We're also talking to different finance
ministers about how we can send a message to the Iranian government
that the free world is not going to tolerate the development of
know-how in how to build a weapon, or at least gain the ability to
make a weapon." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007
"All of us in America want there to be fairness
when it comes to justice." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept.
20, 2007 "I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson)
Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the
Mandelas." --George W. Bush, on the former South African president,
who is still very much alive, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007
"Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for your
introduction. Thank you for being such a fine host for the OPEC
summit." --George W. Bush, addressing Australian Prime Minister John
Howard at the APEC Summit, Sept. 7, 207
"We're kicking ass." --George W.
Bush, on the security
situation in Iraq, to Australian Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile,
Sydney, Australia, Sept. 5, 2007
"Bush goes to Hel. That's what a lot of people want." --George W.
Bush, on his visit to the Hel Peninsula, Gdansk, Poland, Jun. 8,
2007 "You helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17 -- 1976." --George W. Bush, to Queen Elizabeth, Washington, D.C., May 7, 2007 (Watch video clip) "I'm honored to be here with the eternal general of the United States, mi amigo Alberto Gonzales." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 4, 2007 (Watch video clip) "Information is moving -- you
know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it's also moving
through the blogosphere and through the Internets." --George W.
Bush, Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007
"Either we'll succeed, or we won't succeed. And the definition of
success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no
violence." --George W. Bush, on
Iraq, Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007 "There are jobs Americans aren't doing. ... If you've got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what I'm talking about." --George W. Bush. Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007 "There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and
Vietnam). Death is terrible."
--George W. Bush, Tipp City, Ohio, April
19, 2007 "My job is a job to make decisions. I'm a decision -- if the job description were, what do you do -- it's decision maker." --George W. Bush, Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007 "Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'" --George W. Bush, Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007 "I said to her, make sure the rug says 'optimistic person comes to work.'" --George W. Bush, on his instructions to First Lady Laura Bush in choosing a rug for the Oval Office, Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007
"One of my concerns is that the health care not be as good as it can
possibly be." --George W. Bush, on military benefits, Tipp City, Ohio,
April 19, 2007 "My attitude is, if they're still writing about (number) one, 43
doesn't need to worry about it." --George W. Bush, on his legacy,
Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007 "They're innocent, they were doing nothing, and they were summarily
plucked out of water." --George W. Bush, on British sailors who were
detained by Iran while on patrol in the Persian Gulf, Camp David, March
31, 2007
"And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table." --George W. Bush, interview on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Jan. 16, 2007 "The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope -- an ideology of hate -- excuse me --with an ideology of hope." --George W. Bush, Fort Benning, Ga., Jan. 11, 2007 Read More Bushisms • Bushisms from 2008 • Bushisms from 2007 • Bushisms from 2006 • Bushisms from 2005 • Bushisms from 2004 • Bushisms from 2003 • Bushisms from 2002 • Bushisms from 2001 • Bushisms from 2000 Got a Bushism? Email it to politicalhumor@aboutguide.com Are You An Expert on Bushspeak? Take the Bushisms Quiz ~Compiled by Daniel Kurtzman |
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