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50 "W" Quotes (definitely not the sharpest pencil in
box)
50. "I promise you I will listen to what has been said
here, even though I wasn't here." - at the President's Economic
Forum in Waco,
Texas, Aug. 13, 2002
49. "We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we
should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible
disease."
-Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14, 2001
48. "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be
able to pass a literacy test.'' - Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21,
2001
47. "We both use Colgate toothpaste." - after a
reporter asked what he had in common with British Prime Minister Tony
Blair,
Camp David, Md., Feb. 23, 2001
46. "Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I
mean, you're a - you've been given sovereignty, and you're
viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship
between the federal
government and tribes is one between sovereign
entities."
-Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004
45. "I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a
flavor for
what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get
briefed by people
who are probably read the news themselves."
-Washington, D.C.,
Sept. 21, 2003
44. "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
43. "I am here to make an announcement that this
Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan
Airport."
-Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2001
42. "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." - Grand Rapids,
Mich., Jan. 29,
2003
41. "I saw a poll that said the right track/wrong track
in Iraq was better than here in America. It's pretty darn
strong. I mean, the people see a better future." - Washington, D.C.,
Sept. 23, 2004
40. "Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties."
- discussing
the Iraq war with Christian Coalition founder Pat
Robertson, as quoted by Robertson
39. "I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're
going to have a draft." - presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo.,
Oct. 8, 2004
38. "Haven't we already given money to rich people? Why
are we going to do it again?" - to economic advisers
discussing a second
round of tax cuts, as quoted by former Treasury
Secretary Paul
O'Neil, Washington, D.C., Nov. 26, 2002
37. "We need an energy bill that encourages
consumption."
- Trenton, N.J., Sept. 23, 2002
36. "After standing on the stage, after the debates, I
made it
very plain, we will not have an all-volunteer army. And
yet, this
week - we will have an all-volunteer army!"
Daytona Beach, Fla., Oct. 16, 2004
35. "Do you have blacks, too?" - to Brazilian President
Fernando
Cardoso, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001
34. "This foreign policy stuff is a little
frustrating." - as
quoted by the New York Daily News, April 23, 2002
33. "I got to know Ken Lay when he was head of the -
what they
call the Governor's Business Council in Texas. He was a
supporter of
Ann Richards in my run in 1994. And she had named him
the head of
the Governor's Business Council. And I decided to leave
him in
place, just for the sake of continuity. And that's when
I first got
to know Ken and worked with Ken." - attempting to
distance himself
from his biggest political patron, Enron Chairman Ken
Lay, whom he
nicknamed "Kenny Boy," Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2002
32. "It is white." - after being asked by a child in
Britain what
the White House was like, July 19, 2001
31. "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
30. "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
29. "I don't know why you're talking about Sweden.
They're the
neutral one. They don't have an army." - during a Dec.
2002 Oval
Office meeting with Rep. Tom Lantos, as reported by the
New York
Times
28. "You forgot Poland." - to Sen. John Kerry during
the first
presidential debate, after Kerry failed to mention
Poland's
contributions to the Iraq war coalition, Miami, Fla.,
Sept. 30, 2004
27. "I'm the master of low expectations." - aboard Air
Force One,
June 4, 2003
26. "I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't
spend a lot
of time thinking about myself, about why I do things."
- aboard Air
Force One, June 4, 2003
25. "I know what I believe. I will continue to
articulate what I
believe and what I believe - I believe what I believe
is right."
- Rome, Italy, July 22, 2001
24. "We need to counter the shockwave of the evildoer
by having
individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about
tax rebates."
- Washington, D.C. Oct. 4, 2001
23. "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." - Washington,
D.C., Sept. 19,
2002
22. "I wish you'd have given me this written question
ahead of time
so I could plan for it. 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 answer, but it hadn't yet.. I
don't want to
sound like I have made no mistakes. I'm confident I
have. I just
haven't - you just put me under the spot here, and
maybe I'm not as
quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one."
- President
George W. Bush, after being asked to name the biggest
mistake he
had made, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2004
21. "The really rich people figure out how to dodge
taxes
anyway." - explaining why high taxes on the rich are a
failed
strategy, Annandale, Va., Aug. 9, 2004
20. "My plan reduces the national debt, and fast. So
fast, in fact,
that economists worry that we're going to run out of
debt to
retire." - radio address, Feb. 24, 2001
19. "You know, when I was one time campaigning in
Chicago, a
reporter said, 'Would you ever have a deficit?' I said,
'I can't
imagine it, but there would be one if we had a war, or
a national
emergency, or a recession.' Never did I dream we'd get
the
trifecta." - Houston, Texas, June 14, 2002
18. "See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free
nations don't
attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons
of mass
destruction." - Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003
17. "The British government has learned that Saddam
Hussein
recently sought significant quantities of uranium from
Africa."
- State of the Union Address, Jan. 28, 2003, making a
claim that
administration officials knew at the time to be false
16. "In Iraq, no doubt about it, it's tough. It's hard
work. It's
incredibly hard." -repeating the phrases "hard work,"
"working
hard," "hard choices," and other "hard"- based verbiage
22 times in
his first debate with Sen. John Kerry
15. "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."
- Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2001
14. "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."
- Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002
13. "But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for
Laura and me."
- summing up his first year in office, three months
after the 9/11
attacks, Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2001
12. "I try to go for longer runs, but it's tough around
here at the
White House on the outdoor track. It's sad that I can't
run longer.
It's one of the saddest things about the presidency." -
interview
with "Runners World," Aug. 2002
11. "Can we win? I don't think you can win it." - after
being asked
whether the war on terror was winnable, "Today" show
interview, Aug.
30, 2004
10. "I just want you to know that, when we talk about
war, we're
really talking about peace." - Washington, D.C. June
18, 2002
9. "I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I
couldn't do my
job." - to a group of Amish he met with privately, July
9, 2004
8. "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, May 1, 2003
7. "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." -
Washington, D.C.,
May 30, 2003
6. "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be
somewhere!"
- President George W. Bush, joking about his
administration's failure
to find WMDs in Iraq as he narrated a comic slide show
during the
Radio & TV Correspondents' Association dinner,
Washington, D.C.,
March 24, 2004
5. "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a
lot easier,
just so long as I'm the dictator." - Washington, D.C.,
Dec. 19, 2000
4. "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." -
Nashville, Tenn., Sept.
17, 2002 (Watch video)
3. "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." - Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004
(Watch video)
2. "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." - Washington, D.C., Aug. 5,
2004
1. "My answer is bring them on." - on Iraqi insurgents
attacking
U.S. forces, Washington, D.C., July 3, 2003
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