daily dose of w

First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill.

GWB
19 May 2003
Washington, D.C.

daily dose of w

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

GWB
18 Jan 2001
Comments made to the Associated Press.

daily dose of w

My mom often used to say, "The trouble with W" -- although she didn't put thatto words.

GWB
3 Apr 2002

This one popped up as my morning login fortune cookie. It must be destiny...

daily dose of w

We'll let our friends be the peace keepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.

GWB
6 Sep 2000
Candidate Bush speaking in Houston, Texas.

I know this one went out earlier, but it still cracks me up...

daily dose of w

We need to do what we need to do to get the bodies out of there, if they're there.

GWB
14 Feb 2001
Referring to the tragic sinking of a Japanese fishing boat by a U.S. submarine near Hawaii. Reported in the Chicago Tribune.

daily dose of w

A family in Allentown, Pennsylvania -- I campaigned with them the other day... Under my plan, they get $1,800 of tax relief. Under Vice President Gore's plan, they get $145 of tax relief. Now you tell me who stands on the side of the fence.

GWB
3 Oct 2000
First Presidential Debate in Boston, Massachusetts.

daily dose of w

I don't want to win? If that were the case, why the heck am I on the bus 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving hundreds of speeches, getting pillared in the press and cartoons and still staying on message to win?

GWB
28 Feb 2000
Quoted in Newsweek magazine.

daily dose of w

We like living in the White House. It's a nice place to live.

GWB
25 Aug 2001
Speaking to a reporter at his Crawford, TX ranch.

daily dose of w

Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it.

GWB
17 Oct 2000
Comments from St. Louis, Missouri Presidential Debate.

daily dose of w

If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.

GWB
10 Dec 2002
Washington, D.C.

daily dose of w

We're laying the groundwork for a national campaign -- a national campaign
that I believe will result in a great victory in November 2002.

GWB
30 Jun 2003 -- a year after the predicted victory.
Tampa, Florida.

daily dose of w

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.

daily dose of w

The march to war hurt the economy. Laura reminded me a while ago that remember what was on the TV screens -- she calls me, 'George W.' -- 'George W.' I call her, 'First Lady.' No, anyway -- she said, we said, march to war on our TV screen.

GWB
11 Mar 2004
Bay Shore, New York.

daily dose of w

I quit drinking in 1986 and haven't had a drop since then. And it wasn't because of a government program, by the way -- in my particular case -- because I had a higher call.

GWB
3 Nov 2000
Reported by CNN. Comment made in West Allis, Wisconsin.