F Bush in his A!
Please Will everyone get your parents, big brothers, big sisters and any one else to vote?! But first let them read this. Haha.
1. "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
- Florence, South Carolina, Jan. 11, 2000
2. "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
- Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000
3. "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. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
4. "Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"
- in Concord, New Hampshire Jan. 29, 2000
5. "We ought to make the pie higher." - South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000
6. "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."
- Hilton Head, South Carolina, Feb. 16, 2000
7. "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."
- Florence, South Carolina, Feb. 17, 2000
8. "I understand small business growth. I was one." - New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000
9. "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., March 28, 2000
10. "We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal - federal cufflink."
- At Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, March 30, 2000
11. "I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating." - U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
12. "Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis."
- Meet the Press, April 15, 2000
13. 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
14. "My plan is one, by the way, joined by Democrats as well as Republicans, that understands by taking advantage of the compounding rate of interest, younger workers will be able to have some - have benefits that are - that we anticipate a promise for the long run." - Interview, Fox news, May 18
15. "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
16. "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
17. "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
18. George W. Bush's new Web site, www.georgewbush.com, states that the No. 3 priority of the campaign is
"Putting Education First." - 7/19... Al Kamen, Washington Post
19. "This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them." - Outside Pittsburgh, Sept. 8, 2000
20. "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
21. "We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans." - Scranton, Pa., Sept. 6, 2000
22. "We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers."- Houston,Texas, Sept. 6, 2000
23. "The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some of their own money." - Westminster, Calif., Sept.13, 2000
24. "I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy." - Redwood, Calif., Sept. 27, 2000
25. "One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected." - Los Angeles, Sept. 27, 2000
26. "I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question."
-Responding to a question about whether he wished he could take back any of his original answers in the first presidential debate. Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2000
27. "It's going to require numerous IRA agents."
-On Gore's tax plan, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000
28. "I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial
profiling, which is illiterate children."
-Second presidential debate, Oct. 11, 2000
29."If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it." -St. Louis, Mo., October 18, 2000
30. "They have miscalculated me as a leader."
31. "The American people wants a president that appeals to the angels..."
32. ''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 head"
33. "We cannot let terriers* and rogue nations hold this nation hostile (hostage) or hold our allies hostile.''
34. "Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness."
35. "if most of the breaks go to wealthy people it's because most of the people who pay taxes are wealthy."
36. "We're enjoying sluggish times, and not enjoying them very much." - President Bush, 1/2/92 ...(Like Father Like Son™)
37. "Dick Cheney and I do not want this country to be in a recession. We want anybody who can find work to be able to find work." - 60 Minutes II, 12/5/2000....special thanks to John Keller.
38. "It is clear that our nation is reliant on foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas." - Beaverton, Oregon 9/25/00....another thank you to John Keller.
39. "If I'm the President, we're going to have emergency room care. We're going to have gag orders." - St. Louis, MS 10/18/00
again, thanks to John Keller.
40. "It's your money. You paid for it." - LaCrosse, Wis 10/18/00
Thank you #4 to John Keller!
41. "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 - A Special Thanks to Elaine Erteschik!
42. Excuse me while I wipe the tears of laughter from my eyes...
This morning (9-13-02) George sayeth that Saddam Hussein's actions were putting the integrity of the United Nations "on-line". Paraphrased, but funny nonetheless, I thought. Thanks for a great site." Gary Feldman - Berkeley, CA
43. "I haven't had a chance to ask the questioners the questions they've been questioning. On the other hand, I firmly believe she'll be a fine secretary of labor."
George W. Bush - January 9th, 20
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program." - 11/2/00 St. Charles, MO
"I don't feel like I've got all that much too important to say on the kind of big national issues." - 20/20 Show - 9/20/2000"
--It’s hard. Freedom is not easy to achieve. I mean, we had a little trouble in our own country achieving freedom.
--Once we transfer sovereignty, we’ll enter into a security agreement with the government to which we pass sovereignty, the entity to which we pass sovereignty.
--And they were happy - they’re not happy they’re occupied. I wouldn’t be happy if I were occupied either.
--One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members, who’ve lost their life.
--I don’t think anybody can - maybe people can argue that. I know the Iraqi people don’t believe that, that they’re better off with Saddam Hussein - would be better off with Saddam Hussein in power.
--We’re at war. Iraq is a part of the war on terror. It is not the war on terror; it is a theater in the war on terror. And it’s essential we win this battle in the war on terror. By winning this battle, it will make other victories more certain in the war against the terrorists.
--I hope - I don’t want to sound like I have made no mistakes. I’m confident I have. I just haven’t...
--We have an obligation to lead the fight on AIDS, on Africa
1. "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
- Florence, South Carolina, Jan. 11, 2000
2. "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
- Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000
3. "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. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
4. "Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"
- in Concord, New Hampshire Jan. 29, 2000
5. "We ought to make the pie higher." - South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000
6. "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."
- Hilton Head, South Carolina, Feb. 16, 2000
7. "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."
- Florence, South Carolina, Feb. 17, 2000
8. "I understand small business growth. I was one." - New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000
9. "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., March 28, 2000
10. "We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal - federal cufflink."
- At Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, March 30, 2000
11. "I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating." - U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
12. "Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis."
- Meet the Press, April 15, 2000
13. 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
14. "My plan is one, by the way, joined by Democrats as well as Republicans, that understands by taking advantage of the compounding rate of interest, younger workers will be able to have some - have benefits that are - that we anticipate a promise for the long run." - Interview, Fox news, May 18
15. "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
16. "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
17. "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
18. George W. Bush's new Web site, www.georgewbush.com, states that the No. 3 priority of the campaign is
"Putting Education First." - 7/19... Al Kamen, Washington Post
19. "This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them." - Outside Pittsburgh, Sept. 8, 2000
20. "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
21. "We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans." - Scranton, Pa., Sept. 6, 2000
22. "We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers."- Houston,Texas, Sept. 6, 2000
23. "The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some of their own money." - Westminster, Calif., Sept.13, 2000
24. "I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy." - Redwood, Calif., Sept. 27, 2000
25. "One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected." - Los Angeles, Sept. 27, 2000
26. "I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question."
-Responding to a question about whether he wished he could take back any of his original answers in the first presidential debate. Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2000
27. "It's going to require numerous IRA agents."
-On Gore's tax plan, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000
28. "I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial
profiling, which is illiterate children."
-Second presidential debate, Oct. 11, 2000
29."If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it." -St. Louis, Mo., October 18, 2000
30. "They have miscalculated me as a leader."
31. "The American people wants a president that appeals to the angels..."
32. ''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 head"
33. "We cannot let terriers* and rogue nations hold this nation hostile (hostage) or hold our allies hostile.''
34. "Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness."
35. "if most of the breaks go to wealthy people it's because most of the people who pay taxes are wealthy."
36. "We're enjoying sluggish times, and not enjoying them very much." - President Bush, 1/2/92 ...(Like Father Like Son™)
37. "Dick Cheney and I do not want this country to be in a recession. We want anybody who can find work to be able to find work." - 60 Minutes II, 12/5/2000....special thanks to John Keller.
38. "It is clear that our nation is reliant on foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas." - Beaverton, Oregon 9/25/00....another thank you to John Keller.
39. "If I'm the President, we're going to have emergency room care. We're going to have gag orders." - St. Louis, MS 10/18/00
again, thanks to John Keller.
40. "It's your money. You paid for it." - LaCrosse, Wis 10/18/00
Thank you #4 to John Keller!
41. "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 - A Special Thanks to Elaine Erteschik!
42. Excuse me while I wipe the tears of laughter from my eyes...
This morning (9-13-02) George sayeth that Saddam Hussein's actions were putting the integrity of the United Nations "on-line". Paraphrased, but funny nonetheless, I thought. Thanks for a great site." Gary Feldman - Berkeley, CA
43. "I haven't had a chance to ask the questioners the questions they've been questioning. On the other hand, I firmly believe she'll be a fine secretary of labor."
George W. Bush - January 9th, 20
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program." - 11/2/00 St. Charles, MO
"I don't feel like I've got all that much too important to say on the kind of big national issues." - 20/20 Show - 9/20/2000"
--It’s hard. Freedom is not easy to achieve. I mean, we had a little trouble in our own country achieving freedom.
--Once we transfer sovereignty, we’ll enter into a security agreement with the government to which we pass sovereignty, the entity to which we pass sovereignty.
--And they were happy - they’re not happy they’re occupied. I wouldn’t be happy if I were occupied either.
--One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members, who’ve lost their life.
--I don’t think anybody can - maybe people can argue that. I know the Iraqi people don’t believe that, that they’re better off with Saddam Hussein - would be better off with Saddam Hussein in power.
--We’re at war. Iraq is a part of the war on terror. It is not the war on terror; it is a theater in the war on terror. And it’s essential we win this battle in the war on terror. By winning this battle, it will make other victories more certain in the war against the terrorists.
--I hope - I don’t want to sound like I have made no mistakes. I’m confident I have. I just haven’t...
--We have an obligation to lead the fight on AIDS, on Africa