| Top Bushisms in the Category of: Adventures in English | |
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| 1. | "[T]he Iraqis need to be very much involved. They were the people that was brutalized by this man." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Dec. 15, 2003 | ||
| 2. | "I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't." - George W. Bush, referring to the McCain-Kennedy patients' bill of rights, June 13, 2001 | ||
| 3. | "Can't living with the bill means it won't become law." - George W. Bush, referring to the McCain-Kennedy patients' bill of rights, June 13, 2001 | ||
| 4. | "Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" - George W. Bush, Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000 | ||
| 5. | "There's a lot of things that there's misconceptions. Evidently it's a misconceptions that Americans believe that Muslims are terrorists." - George W. Bush, en route to Australia aboard Air Force One, Oct. 22, 2003 | ||
| 6. | "We all thought there was weapons there, Robin. My opponent thought there was weapons there." - George W. Bush, second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004 | ||
| 7. | "I went down to Mississippi, met a man who had moved to Mississippi to provide health care for some of our most neediest citizens." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Mar. 4, 2003 [AUDIO] | ||
| 8. | " This doesn't have nothing to do with reputation." - George W. Bush, quoted in the New York Times, Apr. 8, 2002 | ||
| 9. | "Obviously, I pray every day there's less casualty." - George W. Bush, Fort Hood, TX, April 11, 2004 | ||
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"This has been tough weeks in that country." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, April 13, 2004 |
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| 11. | "See, one of the interesting things in the Oval Office - I love to bring people into the Oval Office - right around the corner from here - and say, this is where I office, but I want you to know the office is always bigger than the person." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Jan. 29, 2004 | ||
| 12. | "It's one thing for he and me to have a personal relationship." - George W. Bush, talking about his personal relationship with President Putin. Crawford High School, Crawford, TX, Nov. 15, 2001 | ||
| 13. | "There has been a couple of contacts with people in my Cabinet. And my Cabinet officers said, no help here. And we're starting an investigation before anybody started paying attention to Enron." - George W. Bush, Belle, WV, Jan. 22, 2001 | ||
| 14. | "Every morning I come into the desk, and I would read the threat assessments to America." - George W. Bush, speaking of the present as a bygone era. Dec. 21, 2001 | ||
| 15. | "There's always a difference of opinion sometimes between the House and the Senate, whether it's at the state or federal level." - George W. Bush, Town hall meeting, Orlando, Florida, Dec. 4, 2001 | ||
| 16. | "And we have a role in the government -- in the state government, in the federal government -- to provide immediate help as part of an economic security package, is to provide immediate help." -George W. Bush, Orlando, Florida, Dec. 4, 2001 | ||
| 17. | "People from all walks of life, all politics parties, some of who probably have never been to New York City before, have said... 'How can I help somebody whose lives have been adversely affected by the evil ones?'" - George W. Bush, New York City, NY, Dec. 19, 2001 (Why do you suppose that when the President quotes someone, they sound just like he does?)` | ||
| 18. | "So we are getting ready to have the first press conference we had together in Slovenia." -George W. Bush, Crawford, TX, Nov. 15, 2001 (Days of future passed!) | ||
| 19. | "What easy is when you see excellence to herald excellence." - George W. Bush, in praise of teachers, April, 2000 | ||
| 20. | "One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the ability to be a good student. And if you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams; it's going to be hard to go to college. So when your teachers say, read-you ought to listen to her." - George W. Bush, Nalle Elementary School, Washington, DC, Feb. 9, 2001 | ||
| 21. | "As governor of TX, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards." - George W. Bush, CNN online chat, Aug. 30, 2000 | ||
| 22. | "I want to thank you for the importance that you've shown for education and literacy." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, April 13, 2005 |
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