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I don't feel like I've got all that much too important to say on the kind of big national issues.

GWB
15 Sep 2000
Spoken on ABC's 20/20.

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We have practically banished religious values and religious institutions from the public square and constructed a discountfort zone for even discussing our faith in public settings.

GWB
9 Sep 2000
From a speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Unfortunately, you read it right.

William Odom: Get Out and Fast

Via David Corn, William Odom challenges conventional thinking on getting out of Iraq, and fast. Quote:

The wisest course for journalists might be to begin sustained investigations of why leading Democrats have failed so miserably to challenge the US occupation of Iraq. The first step, of course, is to establish as conventional wisdom the fact that the war was never in the US interest and has not become so. It is such an obvious case to make that I find it difficult to believe many pundits and political leaders have not already made it repeatedly.

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

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

The Awful Truth

W is going to pardon everyone.

Sorry.

It had to be said.

Maybe I can start thinking about something else.

Help me out with this analogy,,,

So Judy Miller tells the Senate what they should do to advance the cause of journalists. Excuse me? Asking Judith Miller about journalism and the professional practice thereof, is kinda like asking Michael Jackson in the latest child care techiques. Now someone has used this analogy. Did I see it on the SAT? Where did it come from? Please help. Anyway, if you need opinions about journalism what about asking Jim Romenesko, Jay Rosen, Dan Gillmor, or the cats at Betty the Crow? What about me? Jesus Food Machinery Corporation, Jayson Blair did less damage to the Grey Lady and journalism than did Judith Miller! Um. NYT? It's 4th and 40 and your're sitting a quarter-yard out of your own end zone. Now is a good time to punt. Or take a safety. But get out.

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This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens. I like interfacing with them.

GWB
8 Sep 2000
Comment made at campaign stop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

But I *reeeely* like initiating unprovoked wars of aggression and cutting taxes for me and my Daddy's friends! Huh, huh... huh, huh...

Republicans *used* to talk like this...

Drink in the wisdom of Larry Wilkerson. He's hangin' with Steven Clemmons at the New America Foundation. It's a couple of hours worth, but, my, oh my... Wilkerson is ex-Army, admirer of GHWB and Eisenhower, former Chief of Staff for Colin Powell. Probably *not* a The Nation subscriber, if you catch my drift... He breaks it all down to... lack of transparency and inability to listen to divergent viewpoints. Good stuff.

Bono Tilting at Windmills, or Scoring a Free Lunch?

I believe that there are few people who care less about the poor than W. So, I can understand why Bono smooched my beautiful bride on multiple occasions. That's true, but non-sequitur, so I apologize. (Try an apology, W. Try something you've never done before.) OK, back on track. So what is Bono doing trying to talk some compassion into the least compassionate person I've ever imagined? Holy Rampant Baby Jesus! He's doing the christian thing! Pay attention W! He's practicing what you're (hypocritically) preaching!

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We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

GWB
21 Aug 2000
Comments from a campaign speech delivered in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Bush: "First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the Independence Day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre."
Matthews: "What's that in English?"
Bush: "Fifteenth of September."

GWB
31 May 2000
Dieciseis de Septiembre is September 16. Speaking on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews.

Close enough for dubya work. Afghanistan, Taliban, al Queda, Iraq. It's all good.

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I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where.

GWB
11 Aug 2000
Referring to Al Gore and Bill Clinton. From an interview with the Associated Press.

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Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better.

GWB
24 Sep 2001
In press conference with Canadian PM

I think I've posted this one earlier, but it's a classic...

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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any governor, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

GWB
6 Dec 1993

You are the best governor ever! -- Harriet Miers

BEST EVAH!!!!