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"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.:
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
Note that he is reading from a speech here.
"My answer is bring them on."
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 3, 2003
"There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible."
George W. Bush, Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007
"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country."
George W. Bush, Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004
"This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating."
as quoted by the New York Daily News, April 23, 2002
"It is white."
after being asked by a child in Britain what the White House was like, July 19, 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, Rome, Italy, July 22, 2001
"Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties."
discussing the Iraq war with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson, as quoted by Robertson
"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 president."
as quoted in Bob Woodward's Bush at War
"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him."
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2001
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002
"I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah."
at a White House menorah lighting ceremony, Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2001
"See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."
George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003
"For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it."
Philadelphia, Penn., May 14, 2001
"The really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway."
explaining why high taxes on the rich are a failed strategy.
George W. Bush, Annandale, Va., Aug. 9, 2004
"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
"Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission."
George W. Busy, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2007
"We need to counter the shockwave of the evildoer by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates."
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C. Oct. 4, 2001
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."
Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001
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
"I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft."
presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004
"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace."
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C. June 18, 2002
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."
Speaking underneath a "Mission Accomplished" banner aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln
George W. Bush, May 1, 2003
"We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories … And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them."
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 30, 2003
"Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere!"
Joking about his administration's failure to find WMDs in Iraq as he narrated a comic slideshow during the Radio & TV Correspondents' Association dinner
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 24, 2004