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Wit and Wisdom of George W. BushThe
Wit and Wisdom of George W. Bush
Last updated 2004-06-28 by Roedy
Green ©2001-2004 Canadian Mind Products.
Pope despairing over latest Bushism.
The following are the verbatim utterances of George W. Bush.
"Ossifer, I am not, emfeesize not, under the affluence of
incohol."
~ anonymous, misattributed to George Bush Jr.
"My mom often used to say, "The trouble with W" -- although she
didn't put that to words."
~ George Bush Jr.
"We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end."
~ George Bush Jr.
"This is a - this is a - any strike's a tough - tough situation, but this
one happens to come at a - or a lockout is a tough situation, or no work is a
tough situation - is to come at bad time."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: Federal News Service, Remarks by President Bush Following Meeting
with Congressional Leaders to Discuss Terrorism Insurance, Oct. 1, 2002
"I should have clarified it by my statement. I just clarified it by my -
not should have - I just."
~ George Bush Jr.
trying to clarify a statement Source: FDCH Political Transcripts, George W.
Bush Holds Media Availability with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi,
2002-09-14
"The consultation process is a positive part of really allowing people to
fully understand our deep concerns about this man, his regime and his desires to
have weapons of mass destruction. Last question - and then I've got to go chip
and putt for a birdie. [Laughter.] It was a good drive."
~ George Bush Jr.
interrupting an 2002-08-10 golf game in Waco, Texas, for a Q & A discussing
possible U.S. military action against Iraq. Source: The Washington Post, White
House Veteran to New Guy: Oh, Beha-aaa-ave!, Lloyd Grove, 2002-08-13
"The woman who knew that I had dyslexia -- I never interviewed her."
~ George Bush Jr.
"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in
Tennessee - that says: Fool me once, shame on [pause] shame on you. [Pause] Fool
me [long, uncomfortable, agonizing pause] you can't get fooled again."
~ George Bush Jr.
at East Literature Magnet School in Nashville Source: The Washington Post, The
Reliable Source, Lloyd Grove, 2002-09-18
"This is a-this is a-any strike's a tough-tough situation, but this one
happens to come at a-or a lockout is a tough situation, or no work is a tough
situation-is to come at bad time."
~ George Bush Jr.
Washington D.C. 2002-10-01
"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."
~ George Bush Jr.
Interview with the New York Times, 2001-01-14
"I think what we need to do is convince people who live in the lands they
live in to build the nations."
~ George Bush Jr.
"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."Texas: "the great sstate of Taxessess"
~ Gore Vidal
Tariff barriers: "barriffs or terriers"
Handcuffs: "cuff links"
shuttle payload: "shuttle payroll"
Tactical nuclear weapons: "tacular weapons"
nuclear: "nukular"
terrorist:; "terrst"
weapons of mass destruction: "weapons of mass production"
Viable: "vile"
regime: "region" (perhaps Bush's speechwriter did not tell him what that big word meant, so he read it as a word he did know.)
hostage: "hostile""
arbitration: "aribtrary"
persevere: "preserve"
obfuscate: "obscufate"
Greeks: "Grecians"
Balkanize: "Vulcanize"
elaborating: "inebriating"
"Columbia carried in its payroll classroom experiments from some of our
students in America."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: The Washington Post, With Edwards, White House Shows First-Strike
Capability, Dana Milbank, 2003-02-11
"There was a good news story in Mississippi. I went down there and - it
wasn't because of me, it was because the doctors and the citizens understand the
cost of a trial system gone array [sic] and they got themselves a law."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: Federal Document Clearing House, President Calls for Medical
Liability Reform, 2003-01-16
He meant awry.
"The law I sign today directs new funds and new focus to the task of
collecting vital intelligence on terrorist threats and on weapons of mass
production [sic]."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: Federal Document Clearing House, President Signs 911 Commission
Bill, 2002-11-27
He meant to say "mass destruction".
"Corporate malfeance [sic] has had an effect on our economy and we need to
do something about it."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: FDCH Political Transcripts, George W. Bush Participates in Rally
at Oakland County Airport, 2002-10-14
"And as I said in my State of the Union, the idea is to see that a car born
today - I mean, a child born today will be driving a car, as his or her first
car, which will be powered by hydrogen and pollution-free."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: Federal News Service, Remarks by President George W. Bush Re:
Energy Independence, 2003-02-06
"I mentioned early on that I recognize there are hurdles, and we're going
to achieve those hurdles."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: Federal News Service, Remarks by President George W. Bush,
2003-01-22
"The Iraqi regime is a threat to any American and to threats who are
friends of America."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: Federal Document Clearing House, President Rallies Troops at Fort
Hood, 2003-01-03
"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: Federal News Service, Remarks by President George W. Bush at 'Simon
for Governor' Luncheon, 2002-08-23
On why defending Britain is more important than defending America.
"You teach a child to read, and he or her [sic] will be able to pass a
literacy test."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: ABCnews.com, Washington D.C. 2001-02-21
"There is [sic] no second-rate children in Arizona. There is [sic] no
second-rate children in America."
~ George Bush Jr.
Speaking about raising education standards Source: FDCH Political Transcripts, George
W. Bush Delivers Remarks at Salmon for Governor and Renzi for Congress Fund-raiser,
Tucson, AZ 2002-09-27
"As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools,
and I have met those standards."
~ George Bush Jr.
CNN 2000-09-30
"To those of you who receive honors, awards and distinctions, I say, well
done. And to the C students, I say: you too can be president."
~ George Bush Jr.
[Bush got into Yale with only C grades, with a little affirmative action help
from his dad. Bush has an MBA from Harvard. I kid you not. A man who could not
pass a grade 6 literacy test has an MBA. How on earth did he get it?]
"We're talking money here, son, not just lives."
~ George Bush Jr.'s great, great, great grandmother
"There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and
the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed the
troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know
what it's like."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: ABC News Transcripts, President Bush and First Lady Bush '20/20'
Year-End Interview, 2002-12-13
"If you find a neighbor in need, you're responsible for serving that
neighbor in need, you're responsible for loving a neighbor just like you'd like
to love yourself."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: FDCH Political Transcripts, George W. Bush Delivers Remarks on the
Economy, 2002-09-16
"People say, 'How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight
evil?' You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and
say, 'I love you'"
~ George Bush Jr.
Washington, D.C.; 2002-09-22
"Hehasagudharrt"
~ George Bush Jr.
George's TM Mantra
"Please! Don't kill me."
~ George Bush Jr.
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.
"I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at."
~ Wilson Mizner
"When one of us suffer [sic], all of us suffers."
~ George Bush Jr.
Bush, addressing the Pennsylvania coal miners Source: The Nation, W. and
the Coal Miners: Photo-op Cover for Anti-worker Policies, David Corn,
2002-08-06.
"The future? We'll all be dead!"
~ George Bush Jr. to Bob Woodward in an interview.
"You know, I just -- I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the
midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with
an answer, but it hadn't yet."
~ George Bush Jr. 2004-04-13 Prime Time Press Conference
admitting he had done no soul searching over his failures on 9-11 or the Iraq
war.
"This is an impressive crowd. The haves and the have-mores. Some people
call you the elite. I call you my base."
~ George Bush Jr. at the Al Smith Dinner
"The only time two men should ever be in bed together is when one is a
politician and the other is a lobbyist."
~ George Bush Jr.
"If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going
to have gag orders."
~ George Bush Jr.
"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."
~ George Bush Jr.
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones
you have to concentrate on."
~ George Bush Jr.
Gridiron Club dinner, Washington, D.C., March 24, 2001
Denial or double-negative admission?:
"The President did not, not receive information about the use of airplanes as missiles by suicide bombers.""I do know I'm ready for the job [the presidency]. And if not, that's just the way it goes."
~ Ari Fleischer, 2002-05-16
"It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity. and
incumbency."
~ George Bush Jr.
"I am a patient man, and when I say I am a patient, I means I am a patient
man."
~ George Bush Jr.
"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and
principles, come and join this campaign."
~ George Bush Jr.
"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive position and have
a tremendous impact on history."
~ George Bush Jr.
"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."
~ George Bush Jr.
"Sometimes Washington is one of these towns where the people who think they've
got the sharp elbows are the most effective person."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: Federal Document Clearing House, George W. Bush Participates in a
Terrell-for-Senate Luncheon, 2002-12-03
"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is
underestimating [how correct they are]."
~ George Bush Jr.
U.S. News & World Report, 2000-04-03
"My program of returning taxes to people who don't need it will turn the
economy around. Supply-sided economics lifts all yachts."
~ George Bush Jr.
In a Doonesbury comic strip
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mential [sic] losses."
~ George Bush Jr.
"The solid truth of the matter is, when you find-if you want to help heal
the hurt, if you want to you hurt people [sic]-help people in pain, the best way
to do so is to call upon the great strength of the country, which is the
compassion of our fellow Americans."
~ George Bush Jr.
St. Louis, Missouri 2002-11-04
"Well, I think if you say you are going to do something and you don't do it,
that's (what I mean by) trustworthiness."
~ George Bush Jr.
"I don't make any apologies for what I do on the campaign trail."
~ George Bush Jr.
"We are concerned about AIDS inside our White House -- make no mistake
about it."
~ George Bush Jr.
Washington 2001-02-07
"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer
questions. I can't answer your question."
~ George Bush Jr.
Ohio 2000-10-04
"Tommy is a good listener, and he's a pretty good actor, too. He can get
things done. Action man, we call him."
~ George Bush Jr.
referring to Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson Source: PR
Newswire, Remarks by the President at the Economic Forum Health Care
Security Session, 2002-08-13
Praising Thompson for his ability to lie.
"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 and
learn to fly airplanes."
~ George Bush Jr.
1984-05 to the Houston Chronicle
"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."
~ Sigmund Freud
"If you want to build a big project and you can't get insurance because of
what the terrorists have done for [sic] America, you can put the project aside."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: FDCH Political Transcripts, George W. Bush Participates in Rally
at Oakland County Airport, 2002-10-14
Terrorism has been great for the oil industry. As a "side effect" of
terrorism, there is a new Unocal pipeline through Afghanistan and America will
soon control Iraq which has $10 trillion in oil reserves, second only to Saudi
Arabia. Terrorism has also done booming business for the defense industry as
well.
"They see the risks are high, the risk of being able to find a job or the
risk of keeping the homeland secure."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: FDCH Political Transcripts, President Bush Holds Press Conference,
Presidential Hall, Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building, 2002-11-07
Bush worries all the time the poor might find jobs, but that's a risk he has to
take to save the fatherland.
"But here in Texas we took [trial lawyers] on and got some good medical -
medical malpractice, which evidently had a few loopholes in it."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: PR Newswire, Remarks by the President at the Economic Forum Health
Care Security Session, 2002-08-13
Bush supports legislation to protect doctors from medical malpractice lawsuits.
He meant to say "good medical malpractice legislation", not "good
medical malpratice".
"The solid truth of the matter is, when you find - if you want to help heal
the hurt, if you want to you hurt people - help people in pain, the best way to
do so is to call upon the great strength of the country, which is the compassion
of our fellow Americans."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: FDCH Political Transcripts, George W. Bush Delivers Remarks,
2002-11-04
on America's compassionate conservatism
"Feels Good!"
~ George Bush Jr. on the Brink of Declaring War on Iraq.
"I want to thank the astronauts who are with us, the courageous spacial
entrepreneurs who set such a wonderful example for the young of our country."
~ George Bush Jr. Washington, D.C. 2004-01-14
He thinks the did it for the endorsement contracts? A business on the side
selling moon rocks?
"The goals for this country are peace in the world. And the goals for this
country are a compassionate American for every single citizen. That compassion
is found in the hearts and souls of the American citizens."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: Federal Document Clearing House, President Visits D.C. Food Bank,
Dec. 19, 2002
A chicken in every pot, a slave for every citizen.
"disrobe or be dismembered."
~ George Bush Jr.
at the McKinley Society, a conservative think tank, 2003-02-28
Threatening Saddam Hussein with penectomy but probably meant "disarm or be
disarmed"
This is a hoax.
"If the President said he wanted Saddam to disrobe, then the President
meant what he said, and Saddam should disrobe."
~ Ari Fleischer, White House Press Secretary
at the McKinley Society, a conservative think tank, 2003-02-28
For a hidden weapon cavity search presumably.
Spoken like the fat little bottom he is.
This is a hoax.
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended."
~ George Bush Jr, on 2003-05-01.
"We gave Hussein a chance to allow inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them
in."
~ George Bush Jr, on 2003-07-14 (forgetting about the U.N. inspector team lead
by Hans Blix)
"At this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly outta Ronald
Reagan Airport."
~ George Bush Jr.
"My trip to Asia begins here in Japan for an important reason. It begins
here because for a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of
the great and enduring alliances of modern times."
~ George Bush Jr.
Except of course for that minor misunderstanding otherwise known as WW II and
the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
"He [Saddam] tried to kill my dad."
~ George Bush Jr. 2002-09-27, reported by CNN
Funny, I could have sworn it was Bush Sr. dropping bombs on Saddam not the other
way around.
"That SOB [Saddam] tried to kill my dad."
~ George Bush Jr. reported 2003-03-29 by New
York Daily News
"And, most importantly, Alma Powell, secretary of Colin Powell, is with us."
~ George Bush Jr.
introducing Alma Powell, wife of Secretary of State Colin Powell
Source: Federal News Service, Remarks by President George W. Bush on First
Anniversary of the USA Freedom Corps, 2003-01-30
"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 Bush Jr.
"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 cufflink."
~ George Bush Jr.
"I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't
here."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: PR Newswire, Remarks by the President at the Economic Forum Health
Care Security Session, 2002-08-13
"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 Bush Jr.
speaking about Saddam Hussein Source: FDCH Political Transcripts, George W.
Bush Delivers Remarks at a Sununu for Senate Fundraiser, Manchester, N.H.
2002-10-05
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's
some kind of federal program."
~ George Bush Jr.
2000-11-02
"Social security is not a federal program."
~ George Bush Jr.
"We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a
nation that suffers from incredible disease."
~ George Bush Jr.
at a news conference in Europe, 2001-06-14
"There is no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on
the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead."
~ George Bush Jr.
Washington 2001-05-11
"There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll
never see it."
~ George Bush Jr.
White House 2001-01-29
"I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of
Hanukkah."
~ George Bush Jr.
speaking at a White House Menorah lighting ceremony
Source: USAtoday.com Washington D.C. 2001-12-10
"The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that George
Bush may or may not make."
~ George Bush Jr.
"I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese-that meant that
they weren't very effective."
~ George Bush Jr.
White House press conference, Washington, D.C., 2001-02-22
"We're going to have a White House forum there in Washington, D.C.,
obviously-that's where the White House is..."
~ George Bush Jr.
Washington D.C. 2002-09-17
"I think there is some methodology in my travels."
~ George Bush Jr.
Washington, D.C., 2001-03-05
"I think we agree, the past is over."
~ George Bush Jr.
2000-05-18
"One year ago today, the time for excuse-making has come to an end."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: Federal News Service, Remarks by President George W. Bush on
Anniversary of No Child Left Behind Act, Washington, D.C., 2003-01-08
"Today's struggle against terrorism will require the sacrifice of our
forefathers, but it is a sacrifice I can promise you we'll make. It's a
sacrifice for the good of America, for the good of France, for the good of
freedom around the world."
~ George Bush Jr.
at Ste Mère Eglise, near Utah beach.
"There's no doubt in my mind that we should allow the world worst leaders
to hold America hostage, to threaten our peace, to threaten our friends and
allies with the world's worst weapons."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: Federal Document Clearing House, Remarks by the President at Chris
Chocola for Congress, and Indiana Victory 2002 Finance Dinner, 2002-09-05
"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun."
~ George Bush Jr.
"I don't know where he is. I have no idea and I really don't care. It's not
that important. It's not our priority."
~ George Bush Jr.
2002-03-13
"A lame duck session, for people who don't know what that means, it means
the Senate is coming and the House is coming back between now and Christmas and
they've got a few days to get some big things done."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: FDCH Political Transcripts, President Bush Holds Press Conference,
Presidential Hall, Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building,
Washington D.C. 2002-11-07
"Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland,
we understand how unfair the death penalty is."
Omaha, Neb., 2001-02-28
[NOTE: Bush supports the death penalty.]
"States should have the right to enact reasonable laws and restrictions
particularly to end the inhuman practice of ending a life that otherwise could
live."
~ George Bush Jr.
Cleveland 2000-06-29
"I want justice. And there's an old poster out West, I recall, that says, 'Wanted:
Dead or Alive'"
~ George Bush Jr.
Bush is confused about the difference between revenge and justice.
"I am carrying out divine commands."
~ George Bush Jr.
in front of the astonished Canadian prime minister Paul Martin
Reported in The Toronto Globe and Mail
"No President has ever done more for human rights than I have."
~ George Bush Jr.
Which includes Lincoln freeing the slaves, LBJ and the end of segregation,
Truman and stopping Japan and the Nazis...
reported by New Yorker writer Ken Auletta
"I believe God wants me to be President, but if that doesn't happen, it's
OK."
~ George Bush Jr.
Texas 1999 at a meeting attended by Richard Land.
"I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically."
~ George Bush Jr.
Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner, Washington, D.C., 2001-02-29
"We need common-sense judges who understand that our rights were derived
from God. Those are the kind of judges I intend to put on the bench."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: CBS News, 2002-06-27
"We hold dear what our Declaration of Independence says, that all have got
uninalienable [sic] rights, endowed by a Creator."
~ George Bush Jr.
speaking to community and religious leaders in Moscow on 2002-05-24 Source:
White House news release
Explaining why it is ok to ignore the constitution.
"The federal government and the state government must not fear programs who
[sic] change lives, but must welcome those faith-based programs for the
betterment of mankind."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: Federal News Service, Remarks by President George W. Bush at 'Simon
for Governor' Luncheon, 2002-08-23
"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no
religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious
foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion
must be derived from faith.... We need believing people."
~ Adolf Hitler
"We've got pockets of persistent poverty in our society, which I refuse to
declare defeat - I mean, I refuse to allow them to continue on. And so one of
the things that we're trying to do is to encourage a faith-based initiative to
spread its wings all across America, to be able to capture this great
compassionate spirit."
~ George Bush Jr.
March 18, 2002, speaking in O'Fallon, Mo. Source: White House news release
"With a great sigh of relief."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
When asked how he thought the world would react to the news of his death.
"L'état,c'est moi".
"The state - I am the state."
~ Louis XIV of France, the radiant sun king.
"This shall not stand."
~ George Bush Jr.
Referring to the Baghdad skyline
"I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- 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."
~ George Bush Jr.
as reported in the Washington
Post
"International law? I'd better call my lawyer."
~ George Bush Jr.
responding to charges the USA had broken international law in excluding Canada,
Germany, France and Russia from bidding on any Iraq contracts.
"Laura and I will thank them from the bottom of my heart."
~ George Bush Jr.
commenting on the perfect unity of his wife and Himself.
"And I know something about being a government. And you've got a good one."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: FDCH Political Transcripts, Remarks by the President at Arkansas
Welcome, Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport, 2002-11-04
Campaigning for the re-election of Gov. Mike Huckabee, Bentonville, Ark.
"I understand small business growth. I was one."
~ George Bush Jr.
"I confirmed to the prime minister that we appreciate our friendship."
(royal we or just presumption?)
~ George Bush Jr.
After meeting with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada, 2001-02-05
"No, I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor
should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God."
~ George Bush Sr.
often mistakenly attributed to George Bush Jr.
1977-08-27, O'Hare Airport
while campaigning for Vice President.
"God loves you and I love you and you can count on us both!"
~ George Bush Jr.
"The legislature's job is to write laws; the executive branch's job is to
interpret law."
~ George Bush Jr.
(Bush thinks he was elected judge, not president.)
"Some people have too much freedom."
~ George Bush Jr.
"We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in
defense of this great nation."
~ George Bush Jr.
"Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are
with us or you are with the terrorists."
~ George Bush Jr.
2001-09-20
Source: Washington
Post, 2002-04-08
"We've wanted so many wars, and we didn't get them. And we've wanted this
one for years."
~ George Bush Jr.
"If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so
long as I'm the dictator."
~ George Bush Jr.
2000-12-18
Source: BusinessWeek Online, 2001-07-27 video
"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier."
~ George Bush Jr.
Describing what it's like to be governor of Texas
1999-07 Governing Magazine
From Paul Begala's Is Our Children Learning?
"I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree
with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck
of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."
~ George Bush Jr.
Describing what it's like to be governor of Texas
2001-07-30 CNN.com
" There will be serious consequences for the dictator in Iraq. And there
will be serious consequences for any Iraqi general or soldier who were to use
weapons of mass destruction on our troops or on innocent lives within Iraq.
Should any Iraqi officer or soldier receive an order from Saddam Hussein, or his
sons, or any of the killers who occupy the high levels of their government, my
advice is, don't follow that order. Because if you choose to do so, when Iraq is
liberated, you will be treated, tried and persecuted [sic] as a war criminal."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: Whitehouse, Taking
Action to Strengthen Small Businesses - Remarks by the President on the
Economy, 2003-01-22
"Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are
with us, or you are with the terrorists."
~ George Bush Jr.
2001-09-20
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological
criminal."
~ Albert Einstein
Bush family business associate in WW II.
People often compare Bush and Hitler because of the way they both suspended democratic constitutions. They are quite different. Could you for example imagine George Bush Jr. saying or even so much as thinking the following things:
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in
England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it
is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple
matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice,
the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy.
All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the
peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works
the same in any country."
~ Hermann Goering, President of the Reichstag, Nazi Party, and Luftwaffe
Commander in Chief
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the
people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It
thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress
dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension,
the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
~ Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945
"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who
fear it to imitate it."
~ Adolf Hitler
"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of
rhetoric than to any other force."
~ Adolf Hitler
"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie
than to a small one."
~ Adolf Hitler
"The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents
appear as if they belonged to one category."
~ Adolf Hitler
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
~ Adolf Hitler
"Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that
liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction."
~ Adolf Hitler
"What luck for rulers, that men do not think."
~ Adolf Hitler
"Who says I am not under the special protection of God?"
~ Adolf Hitler
"Words build bridges into unexplored regions."
~ Adolf Hitler
"Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong."
~ Adolf Hitler
"Strength lies not in defence but in attack."
~ Adolf Hitler
"How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."
~ Adolf Hitler
"Chamberlain seemed such a nice old gentleman that I thought I would give
him my autograph."
~ Adolf Hitler
"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no
religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious
foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion
must be derived from faith.... We need believing people."
~ Adolf Hitler
"By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make
people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the
more readily it will be believed."
~ Adolf Hitler
"We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical
explanation of the world is rising."
~ Adolf Hitler
"After all, this is the guy who tried to kill my dad."
~ George Bush Jr.
Jusfifying the war on Iraq. 2002-09-27
"But I also made it clear to [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."
~ George Bush Jr.
Washington, D.C., 2001-05-01
"No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace."
~ George Bush Jr.
"I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to
war."
~ George Bush Jr.
"Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better."
~ George Bush Jr.
Canada and Mexico don't share a border.
"We're in for a long struggle, and I think Texans understand that. And so
do Americans."
~ George Bush Jr.
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
~ George Bush Jr.
"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 Bush Jr.
(talking about abortion to Chris Matthews, host of Hardball.)
"I've been talking to Vicente Fox, the new president of Mexico . . . I know him . . . to have gas and oil sent to U.S. . . . so we'll not depend on foreign oil."
"All public policy should revolve around the principle that individuals are
responsible for what they say and do."
~ George Bush Jr. 1994
"No cause justifies the killing of innocent life."
~ George Bush Jr.
A man who starved and dismembered a million Afghans in his fevered charge to
kill bin Laden, and who tricked two nations into the Iraq war in a personal
vendetta against one man.
"It really depends upon how our nation conducts its foreign policy. If we're
an arrogant nation, they'll resent us. If we're a humble nation, they'll respect
us."
~ George Bush Jr., during the Wake Forest debate.
"Baseball is unique. It's a game of individual achievement for a cause
greater than all. Kind of like politics."
~ George Bush Jr.
"I'm a uniter."
~ George Bush Jr.
Is this the same George Bush Jr. who thumbed his nose at the U.N. and
systematically alienated every one of America's former allies?
"The coalition that was in place isn't as strong as it used to be, It's
going to be important to rebuild that coalition to keep the pressure on him [Saddam]."
~ George Bush Jr. 2000-10-11, second presidential debate
Is this the same George Bush Jr. who thumbed his nose at the U.N. and
systematically alienated every one of America's former allies?
"We should be able to punish corporate leaders who are convicted of abusing
their powers. By banning them from ever serving again as officers or directors
of a publicly held corporation."
~ George Bush Jr.
Bush's crew contain stock fraud con artists including himself, Dick Cheney,
Larry Thompson and Thomas White.
"The more money they have in their more pockets - in their pockets, the
more likely it is that somebody will find work."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: Federal Document Clearing House, George W. Bush Delivers Remarks
to the GOP Resort from the Greenbriar Resort, 2003-02-09
Republicans believe starvation in the best way to motivate people to find jobs.
"If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us; if we're a humble nation,
but strong, they'll welcome us. And our nation stands alone right now in the
world in terms of power, and that's why we've got to be humble... I'm not so
sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say this is the
way it's got to be."
~ George Bush Jr.
from the Presidential Debate, 2000-10-12
"We should be able to punish corporate leaders who are convicted of abusing
their powers. By banning them from ever serving again as officers or directors
of a publicly held corporation."
~ George Bush Jr.
Bush Jr has been arrested 3 times for different offences, and only got off with
$800,000 oil shares trading charge when the investigator, appointed by his
father said there was insufficient evidence to proceed.
"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 Bush Jr.
Source: The Washington Post, With Edwards, White House Shows First-Strike
Capability, Dana Milbank, 2003-02-11
"These people don't have tanks. They don't have ships. They hide in caves.
They send suiciders out."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: Federal News Service, Remarks by President George W. Bush At
Welcome Rally, 2002-11-01
"Speaking about barbaric regimes, we must deal with probably one of the
most - not probably - one of the most real threats we face, and that is the idea
of a barbaric regime teaming up with a terrorist network and providing weapons
of mass destruction to hold the United States and our allies and our friends
blackmail."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: FDCH Political Transcripts, George W. Bush Participates in
Alexander for Senate Luncheon, 2002-09-17
"We already gave the rich a tax cut so why are we giving them another one?"
~ George Bush Jr. at a staff meeting reported by Paul O'Neill, Secretary of the
Treasury.
"We will spend $3.3 trillion over the next 10 years on top of --- on top of
the $1.9 trillion budget. We still have trillions of dollars left in the surplus."
~ George Bush Jr., Inside Politics, 2000-08-22
"We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no
alternative to a smaller government."
~ George Bush Jr., Imprimis Magazine 1995, explaining why he planned to bankrupt
the country with deficits and dismantle social security.
"Sometimes things aren't exactly black and white when it comes to
accounting procedures."
~ George Bush Jr.
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
~ George Bush Jr.
2000-05-05
"It's your money. You paid for it."
~ George Bush Jr.
2000-10-18
"The idea of putting subliminable messages into ads is ridiculous."
~ George Bush Jr.
"I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our
views on prescription drugs."
~ George Bush Jr.
Orlando Florida, 2000-09-12
"Lacerates ran down my cheeks."
~ George Bush Jr. (trying to sound grand with a Thesaurus on an Andover essay).
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
~ George Bush Jr.
"Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of 'Hop on Pop'."
~ George Bush Jr.
"In 1994, there were 67 schools in Texas that were rated exemplorary [sic]
according to our own tests."
~ George Bush Jr.
"The question is, how many hands have I shaked."
~ George Bush Jr.
"What is [sic] your ambitions?"
~ George Bush Jr.
speaking at the Parkview Arts and Science Magnet School Source: Federal News
Service, Remarks by President George W. Bush at a Back-to-School Event,
2002-08-29
"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power to power
the power of generating plants."
~ George Bush Jr.
2000-09-15
"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"
~ George Bush Jr.
"And out of the evil done to America is going to come a more peaceful world,
and a more better America..."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: FDCH Political Transcripts, George W. Bush Participates in Welcome
Ceremony, 2002-10-22
"Do you have blacks, too?"
~ George Bush Jr.
speaking to Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Source: Reported 2002-04-28
by columnist Fernando Pedreira (and friend of the Brazilian president) of the
Estado Sao Paulo in an article titled An Overwhelming Ignorance.
Also cited by The Washington Post. 2001-11-08
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
~ George Bush Jr.
"We ought to make the pie higher."
~ George Bush Jr.
"Some communities, you say, "Hey, American dream," and they go, "What
does that mean?"
~ George Bush Jr.
speaking eloquently about the American dream Source: FDCH Political Transcripts, George
W. Bush Participates in Manchester, New Hampshire Welcome, Oct. 5, 2002
"The future will be better tomorrow."
~ George Bush Jr.
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."
~ George Bush Jr.
"We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called
America will be the pacemakers."
~ George Bush Jr.
"I reminded them and their families that the war in Iraq is really about
peace.."
~ George Bush Jr.
Much of what Bush says is drooling idiocy, but also much of it is malicious Orwellian language. Here are some examples.
"that pygmy"
~ George Bush Jr.
term for Kim Jong II of North Korea, managing to insult Korea and Africans in
one blow.
"Green green, lima beans"
~ George Bush Jr.
term for environmentalists
"Pooty Poot"
~ George Bush Jr.
term for Vladimir Putin, Russian President
"Pablo" later "Mr. Big O"
~ George Bush Jr.
term for treasury secretary Paul O'Neill.
"Turdblossom"
~ George Bush Jr.
term for Karl Rove
"Balloonfoot"
~ George Bush Jr.
term for Colin Powell
"Kenny Boy"
~ George Bush Jr.
term for Ken Lay of Enron
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"Well, you got a pretty face. You got a pretty face. You're a good-looking
guy. Better looking than my Scott anyway."
~ George Bush Jr. to Scott
Reid Prime Minister of Canada Martin's assistant.
"I'm also most appreciative of the Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee for being
here. I've know Mayor Ashe for years and years and years. And he has done a
fabulous job of being a fine public servant in Knoxville. So, Victor, thank you
for coming."
~ George Bush Jr. about the gay mayor of Knoxville, Victor Ash whom he used to
live with and who visits often for sleepovers, and with whom he goes on
vacations, without his wife Laura.
"Fabulous!"
~ George Bush Jr's favourite word.
"And one of the things we've got to make sure that we do is anything."
~ George Bush Jr.
"The benefits of helping somebody is beneficial."
~ George Bush Jr.
"When you have your own money, it means you've got more money to spend."
~ George Bush Jr.
"The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country."
~ George Bush Jr.
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
~ George Bush Jr.
"I want the youngsters here to remember the story of Flight 93, one of most
profound parts of this entire history of the recent history we've been through."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: Federal News Service, President Bush Remarks at St. Louis,
Missouri welcome, 2002-11-04
"My pro-life position is I believe there is life. It's not necessarily
based in religion. I think there's a life there, therefore the notion of life,
liberty and pursuit of happiness."
~ George Bush Jr.
Quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, 2001-01-23
"Peace will come to the Middle East only after everyone stops fighting."
~ George Bush Jr.
"We're going to have a White House forum there in Washington, D.C.,
obviously - that's where the White House is..."
~ George Bush Jr.
Source: FDCH Political Transcripts, George W. Bush Participates in Pledge
Across America, 2002-09-17
"It is white."
~ George Bush Jr.
when asked by a child in Britain what the White House
was like, 2001-07-19.
Ari Fleischer was Bush's press secretary, aka Minister of Propaganda, aka Presidential Nanny, aka King George's Lord High Buttwiper, aka the royal farter, aka Secretary of Greenhouse Gas Emissions. This guy is so confident the people will believe whatever swampgas comes out of his mouth just because it comes from the presidential podium, that he makes howlers. He does not even bother to make up plausible lies.
"The reason to go to war is to save lives."
~ Ari Fleischer 2003-02-25
Real
Audio video
"The president is worried about Saddam killing his own people."
~ Ari Fleischer 2003-02-25
Real
Audio video
If so, then why is Bush killing them too?
"This is not about public relations. This is about protecting the lives of
the American people ...If Saddam Hussein destroys the missiles that he said he
never had ... you've got to wonder what other weapons does he have?"
~ Ari Fleischer
The missiles were no threat to the American people. They could not even make it
half way to Israel much less America. The missiles in question were not secret.
They simply went 20 miles further than the allowed 90 mile limit.
"Think about what you are saying. You're saying that leaders of other
nations are buyable."
~ Ari Fleischer 2003-02-25
The press guffawed with laughter since The press guffawed with laughter since
Bush had just offered Turkey a $28 billion bribe.
Real
Audio video
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
~ George Orwell (Ari Fleischer's mentor)
"In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the
indefensible."
~ George Orwell
"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder
respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
~ George Orwell
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the
obvious."
~ George Orwell
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by
his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
~ George Orwell
"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the
first duty of intelligent men."
~ George Orwell
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present
controls the past."
~ George Orwell
"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are
used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying
it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote
against their own interests."
~ Gore Vidal
"Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that.~ Britney Spears, professional airhead, 2003-09
"A war with Iraq will gratify our need to avenge September 11. It does not matter that Iraq is not the culprit. Bush needs only to ignore the evidence. Which he does with all the power of a man who has never been embarrassed by himself. Saddam, for all his crimes, did not have a hand in September 11, but President Bush is a philosopher. September 11 was evil, Saddam is evil, all evil is connected. Ergo, Iraq ... If I were George W. Bush's karmic defense attorney, I would argue that his best chance to avoid conviction as a purveyor of false morality would be to pray for a hung jury in the afterworld."~ Norman Mailer
"Not only does President Bush ignore his ethical responsibilities in matters of environmental stewardship, he fails to understand the complex relationship between economics and environmental concerns and the longtime consequences of setting policies slanted so strongly in favor of the energy industry."~ Russell Train a lifelong Republican who played a key role in forging environmental policy under Presidents Nixon and Ford.
"He actually can pick up the telephone. He's actually very, very competent in a lot of ways."~ Laura Bush on her husband
"I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president, I am stunned and I'm horrified."~ Rosie O'Donnell 2004-02-20 on Bush's proposed constitutional amendment to deny gays the right to marry.
"The government is not really telling the truth to the American people. Past administrations from the time of Alexander Hamilton have on the average run responsible budgetary policies. What we have here is a form of looting."~ George A. Akerlof Nobel prize winner for economics 2001
"No president of the United States should employ misguided ideology and distortion of the truth to take the nation to war. In doing so, the President broke the basic bond of trust between government and the people. If Congress and the American people knew the whole truth, America would never have gone to war."~ Senator Edward Kennedy 2004-01-14
"In the 23 months I was there, I never saw anything that I would characterise as evidence of weapons of mass destruction."~ Paul O'Neill
"George is pretty impulsive, and does pretty much everything to excess. Drinking is not one of the good things to do to excess."~ Laura Bush
"Bush describes himself as a "passionate conservative" which in Texas means he asks how you like your Jell-O just before he flips the switch."~ Craig Killborn, the Daily Show
"If you've seen one Redwood tree, you've seen them all."~ Ronald Reagan
~ Nostradamus 1555 ADCome the millennium, month twelve, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth to be acclaimed the leader.
~ Lyndon Larouche"Bush is a mental defective, with severe neurological problems from drug addiction."
~ Mark Russell"Bush says he isn't going to play the rumor game -- specifically, the rumor that he was born with a silver spoon in his nose."
~ Mark Russell"We know Saddam has weapons of mass destruction; we have the receipts."
~ Jay Leno"Saying we're in a slow recovery, not a recession, is like saying we don't have any unemployed -- we just have a lot of people who are really, really late for work."
~ Bill Maher"How bad do you have to suck to lose a popularity contest with Saddam Hussein?"
~ Chris Rock"He's not stupid, he's just drunk. All the black people who voted for Bush are both on his cabinet."
~ General Norman Schwarzkopf"Candidly, I have gotten somewhat nervous at some of the pronouncements Rumsfeld has made. ... He almost sometimes seems to be enjoying it."
~ Deep Blue Jean 2002-07-04, as part of its performance in passing the Turing test."I don't think George W. Bush Jr. is conscious. In other words, "There's nobody home in George W. Bush Jr."
~ Albert Nerenerg"Technically, a moron is someone who is stupid but looks normal."
~ Jean Chrétien"George Bush is not a moron... he is my friend."
~ Doug Bandow, senior fellow with the Cato Institute"President George W. Bush's speech on Iraq is significant mostly because it reveals that he long ago made a decision for war and has always viewed the inspection process as an impediment to war to be overcome rather than a means to avoid war."
~ Scott Ritter, former head weapons inspector for the USA."No one has substantiated the allegations that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction or is attempting to acquire weapons of mass destruction. And of course that is the reason we have been given for going to war against Iraq -- because of the threat posed by these weapons. It has been nothing but rhetorically laced speculation, not hard facts, that have been presented by either the United States or Great Britain to back this up, and until they provide hard facts, there is no case for war."
~ Maurene Dowd, Bush: The Xanax Cowboy"It still confuses many Americans that, in a world full of vicious slimeballs, we're about to bomb one that didn't attack us on 9/11 (like Osama); that isn't intercepting our planes (like North Korea); that isn't financing Al Qaeda (like Saudi Arabia); that isn't home to Osama and his lieutenants (like Pakistan); that isn't a host body for terrorists (like Iran, Lebanon and Syria)."
~ Aldous Huxley"One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."
~ Bill Maher, HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher"The bad news is that North Korea has restarted its nuclear reactors, so we know that they could soon have a nuke that could hit the west coast here in California. The president has said that this is still not a crisis because they don't have one that could hit a red [Republican] state."
We joke about Bush, but his gross incompetence is extremely dangerous. He has the power to kill us all by triggering nuclear war. Everyone laughs at him, yet almost everyone is afraid to tell him that his performance and behaviour is just not acceptable and demand that he resign for the good of the country, and enroll in a appropriate Twelve Step Program modelled on AA ( Alcoholics Anonymous). The cabinet and the country must stop acting as enablers to Bush Jr.'s addictive behaviour whether it be substance abuse or addiction to power. He is way over his depth. He is like Mickey Mouse in The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Ironically, if someone showed up to work and started spouting incoherent word salads like Bush does, he would be fired on the spot for intoxication. Even garbage men in America must submit to surprise drug urine tests. For safety, the president and his cabinet should get blood and urine tests daily, done by several different labs, especially considering Bush Jr.'s bizarre behaviour and Don Rumsfeld's sudden personality change.
Rumsfeld's transformation is really is striking. Rumsfeld used to be a stuffed shirt squared. Read his collected quotations.
Links | The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder | ||||||
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George Bush, that's America, the symbol of freedom!
He was born on the banks of the river Mississipi,
George Bush is for us all a friend!
He is always ready for adventure,
With his good buddies,
He's afraid of nothing, he's an American
He likes school, especially from afar.
George Bush, that's America, the symbol of freedom!
He was born on the banks of the river Mississipi,
George Bush is for us all a friend!
His horse is white, his name is Bushy,
And hunts Indians [[war cries]]
He is different from Iraqi horses,
He's much stronger, and speaks American!
[[...god... god... god bless america...]]
Georges Bush, that's America,
For all those who love truth,
Flinging lies aside with a flick of his hands,
George Bush, you whose name make us dream!
George Bush, that's America, the symbol of freedom!
Like daddy, he's President of the Nice States.
Like daddy, he's for us all a friend [[yippee!]]
George Bush is for us all a friend!
Let's join the Petro-Bush-Company!
[[quack... quack... quack...]]
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