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Education is not my top priority --- education is my top priority.

GWB
February 27, 2001
From a budget speech in Washington, D.C.

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As I said in my State of the Union address, liberty is not America's gift to the world. Liberty is God's gift to human -- to the human -- mankind.

GWB
26 Feb 2003
Washington, D.C.

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I've got a record, a record that is conservative and a record that is compassionated.

GWB
2 Mar 2000
As quoted by the New York Times.

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Of all the people in the world who understand Texas, it's probably Australians.

George W. Bush
22 Oct 2003
En route to Australia aboard Air Force One.

Texans, on the other hand...

Remember the date. That's a particularly good one to shower Celine with presents.

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The really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway.

GWB
9 Aug 2004
Annandale, Virginia.

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A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.

GWB
18 Sep 2000
Spoken while a guest on the CBS show "The Edge With Paula Zahn".

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Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.

GWB
December 2000
From a Time magazine interview, published in the December 25, 2000 issue.

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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 ahead.

GWB
21 Aug 2000
From campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Larry King: Vice President Gore said that: "If you lopped off the top 1% that you are giving tax relief ... you could pay for the cost of every other program."

Bush: "Oh, I don't -- you know, I hadn't -- I'm not so sure. I'm not quick in my mind at math, but I don't believe in trying to pick and choose winners when it comes to tax relief."

GWB
26 Sep 2000
Appearing on CNN's Larry King Live.

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I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace.

GWB
23 October 2000
Spoken in Des Moines, Iowa during campaign address.

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I think we're making progress. We understand where the power of this country lay. It lays in the hearts and souls of Americans. It must lay in our pocketbooks. It lays in the willingness for people to work hard. But as importantly, it lays in the fact that we've got citizens from all walks of life, all political parties, that are willing to say, I want to love my neighbor.

GWB
11 April 2001
From a speech at the Concord Middle School in Concord, North Carolina.

Read Ye Dan Froomkin

I shoulda put this update in its own post, but I didn't. What I will do, however is take this moment to direct you to Dan Froomkin and his White House Briefing. Due to the lamosity of the WP link scheme/page layout, they don't have a neat WHB place to go to, but you can go to the politics page and look for him. Here's a picture:

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Vice President mentioned Nigeria is a fledgling democracy. We have to work with Nigeria. That's an important continent.

GWB
11 October 2000
Presidential Debate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Let me start by telling you this: I have never used steroids. Period, I don't know how to say it any more clearly than that. Never.

Rafael Palmeiro (Under oath, in front of Congress)

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to explain to the arbitrator how the banned substance entered my body. The arbitrator did not find that I used a banned substance intentionally.

Rafael Palmeiro (After being busted for testing positive for 'roids)

I'm sure there's a nice slot for RP in the Bush Administration.

UPDATE:

Dag! Gotta love being quasi-prescient. W with some Texas print types:

Well, Rafael Palmeiro is a friend. He's testified in public, and I believe him. He's the kind of person that's going to stand up in front of the klieg lights and say he didn't use steroids, and I believe him. Still do. -- GWB 2 Aug 2005

Why does he do this? Because he thinks he's invincible! From the same gaggle-esque Bushfest:

Q: But power is perception.

W: Power is being the President.

Kudos to Dan Froomkin for the goods.

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There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.

GWB
11 May 2001
Washington, D.C.