Top Bushisms in the Category of: Understatement

The President is not only the master of low expectation, he's the master of understatement, too.
 
1. "I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don't." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Aug. 6, 2004
2. "And we live in an amazing world. And yet, in the midst of our world, there's a lot of folks who are dying and will die." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Jul. 16, 2003
3. "They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program." - George W. Bush, Nov. 2, 2000 [AUDIO]
4. "The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like." - George W. Bush, New York, NY, Sept. 21, 2004
5. "I'm not the expert on how the Iraqi people think, because I live in America, where it's nice and safe and secure." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Sept. 23, 2004
6. "It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, April 10, 2002
7. "I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes." - George W. Bush, Des Moines, IA, Aug. 21, 2000
8. "We're dealing with centuries and years of hatred, and I understand that." - George W. Bush on the Palestinian/Israeli situation, White House, May 2, 2002
  9. "You see, not only did the attacks help accelerate a recession, the attacks reminded us that we are at war." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, June 8, 2005 [AUDIO] (The attacks didn't remind us we are at war; the attacks are the reason we're at war. And why does the recession get top billing over the war on terror?)  

 

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