Top Bushisms in the Category of: A Tale Told By An Idiot

Even if you voted for President Bush, you have to admit he's said some pretty silly things. Here's a few of them.
 
1. "I don't know why you're talking about Sweden. They're the neutral one. They don't have an army.'' - George W. Bush, during an Oval Office meeting with Rep. Tom Lantos in 2001, as reported by the New York Times
2. "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." - George W. Bush, Reuters, May 5, 2000
3. "I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here." - George W. Bush, speaking at the President's Economic Forum in Waco, TX, Aug. 13, 2002
4. "I understand small business growth. I was one." - George W. Bush, New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000
5. "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there." - George W. Bush, Western Community College, Council Bluffs, IA, Jan 21, 2000
6. "I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question." - George W. Bush, in response to a question about whether he wished he could take back any of his answers in the first debate. Reynoldsburg, OH, Oct. 4, 2000
7. "As you know, we don't have relationships with Iran. I mean, that's - ever since the late '70s, we have no contacts with them, and we've totally sanctioned them. In other words, there's no sanctions - you can't - we're out of sanctions." - George W. Bush, Annandale, VA, Aug. 9, 2004
8. "My job is to, like, think beyond the immediate." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, April 21, 2004 [AUDIO]
  9. "As Luce reminded me, he said, without data, without facts, without information, the discussions about public education mean that a person is just another opinion." - George W. Bush, Jacksonville, FL, Sept. 9, 2003  
  10. "It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet." - George W. Bush, Arlington Heights, IL, Oct. 24, 2000 [AUDIO]  
  11. "I've been talking to Vicente Fox, the new president of Mexico... I know him... to have gas and oil sent to U.S.... so we'll not depend on foreign oil . . ." - George W. Bush, first Presidential debate, October 3, 2000  
  12. "What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'' - George W. Bush, as quoted by Molly Ivins, the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000  
  13. "The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to TX" - George W. Bush, to a Slovak journalist, quoted by Knight Ridder News Service, June 22, 1999. Bush's meeting was with Janez Drnovsek, the prime minister of Slovenia  
  14. "Keep good relations with the Grecians." - George W. Bush, quoted in the Economist, June 12, 1999  
  15. "Skeptics say, 'Governor, if you take away our licenses, we won't be able to earn a living to pay child support.' To those parents, I have a simple response: 'Pay up.'" 1995 State of the State Address, Austin, TX, Feb. 7, 1995  
  16. "The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective." - George W. Bush, in Wayne, MI, as quoted by Katharine Seelye in the New York Times, June 28, 2000  
  17. "I was going to say he's a piece of work, but that might not translate too well. Is that all right, if I call you a 'piece of work'?" - George W. Bush to Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg, Washington, DC, June 20, 2005 [AUDIO]  

 

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