BBC's Matt Frei interviews G.W. Bush:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7245670.stm Favorite lines include, but are not limited to: "I mean, their vision is, like, really dark and dim. Plus - I believe without to whom much is given, much is required. And - America's been given a lot. And it's required of us to help those that suffer. So... mine is a mission of mercy and a mission of the cold realism of the world in which we live - based upon the realism of the world in which we live."
"There's a lot of issues that I suspect people are gonna, you know, opine, about during the Olympics. I mean, you got the Dali Lama crowd. You've got global warming folks. You've got, you know, Darfur and... I am not gonna you know, go and use the Olympics as an opportunity to express my opinions to the Chinese people in a public way 'cause I do it all the time with the president."
"America is trapped in this notion that we care about human life. We respect human dignity. And that's not a trap. That's a belief."
One of the three conservatives at this school was telling me that Bush's fatal flaw is not stupidity or gross incompetence, but a fundamental lack of curiosity about other people. I'm not sure that that's the whole story, but it is certainly an interesting way to think about it.