Sometimes the President's statements provide more information or "vision" than we need.
| Top Bushisms in the Category of: Too Much Vision | |
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Sometimes the President's statements provide more information or "vision" than we need. |
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| 1. | "Had we to do it over again, we would look at the consequences of catastrophic success, being so successful so fast that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done in escaped and lived to fight another day." - George W. Bush, telling Time magazine that he underestimated the Iraqi resistance | ||
| 2. | "But I also made it clear to (Vladimir Putin) that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe." - George W. Bush, May 1, 2001 | ||
| 3. | "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." - George W. Bush, LaCrosse, WI, Oct. 18, 2000 [AUDIO] | ||
| 4. | "I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them." - George W. Bush, Dec. 20, 2000 | ||
| 5. | "The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law." - George W. Bush, Austin, TX, Nov. 22, 2000 [AUDIO] | ||
| 6. | "We thought we were protected forever from trade policy or terrorist attacks because oceans protected us." - George W. Bush, speaking to business leaders at APEC Summit, Santiago, Chile, Nov. 20, 2004 | ||
| 7. | "I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed in the atmosphere, and they say, man, you're looking pretty." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Nov. 4, 2004 | ||
| 8. | "When a drug comes in from Canada, I wanna make sure it cures ya, not kill ya... I've got an obligation to make sure our government does everything we can to protect you. And one - my worry is that it looks like it's from Canada, and it might be from a third world." - George W. Bush, second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004 | ||
| 9. | "There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's like." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Dec. 11, 2002. | ||
| 10. | "People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut- in's house and say I love you." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Sept. 19, 2002 | ||
| 11. | "I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together." - George W. Bush, Bartlett, TN, Aug. 18, 2000 |
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