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It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents.

GWB
22 Oct 1999
Comment made while visiting Keene, New Hampshire.

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Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

GWB
11 Jan 2000
From a speech delivered in Florence, South Carolina, and as reported in the Los Angeles Times on January 14, 2000.

Ahh... one of the classics! This is why shows go into syndication... there is still pleasure in the occasional repeat of a good episode!

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It's going to require numerous IRA agents.

GWB
10 Oct 2000
The presidential candidate commenting on Vice President Gore's proposed tax plan (meaning to say IRS -- Internal Revenue Service agents).

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I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.

GWB
1 Feb 2000
From speech in Nashua, New Hampshire. Quoted in the New York Times.

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Reporter: "The European Union and Japan have filed a challenge in the WTO against a rule in the Agriculture Appropriations bill that would allow steel companies to receive money from antidumping duties."

Bush: "Say again now?"

GWB
22 Dec 2000
Spoken during a press conference held by the president-elect.

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Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is -- I'm not sure 80% of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100% will get it if I'm the president.

GWB
17 Oct 2000
From Presidential Debate in St. Louis, Missouri.

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I think we ought to have high --- high standards and set by --- by agencies that rely upon science, not by what may feel good or what sound good.

George W. Bush
15 Jan 2000
From Republican Debate in Des Moines, Iowa.

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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.

GWB
14 May 2001

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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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So, on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, congratulations.

GWB
31 May 2001
White House ceremony honoring the University of Nebraska women's volleyball team, the 2001 NCAA Champions.

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See,
we love
we love freedom.
That's what they didn't
understand.
They hate things;
we love things.
They act out of hatred;
we don't seek
revenge,
we seek
justice
out of love.

GWB
29 Aug 2002
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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I thought we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

GWB
18 Oct 2000
From speech in St. Louis, Missouri.

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There are some monuments where the land is so widespread, they just encompass as much as possible. And the integral part of the -- the precious part, so to speak -- I guessall land is precious, but the part that the people uniformly would not want to spoil, will not be despoiled. But there are parts of the monument lands where we can explore without affecting the overall environment.

GWB
13 Mar 2001
Comment made while speaking to the press. Washington, D.C.

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If he's -- the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a -- is a noble institution. I would -- I would strongly reject that assumption, that John Ashcroft is a open-minded, inclusive person.

GWB
14 Jan 2001
From the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw.