Top Bushisms in the Category of: You Know What I Meant

 

 
1. "I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging." - George W. Bush, at the dedication of his portrait, Austin, TX, Jan. 4, 2002
2. "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
3. "There's no cave deep enough for America, or dark enough to hide." - George W. Bush, Oklahoma City, Aug. 29, 2002
4. "Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes." - George W. Bush, Ontario, CA, Jan. 5, 2002
5. "I'm thrilled to be here in the bread basket of America because it gives me a chance to remind our fellow citizens that we have an advantage here in America - we can feed ourselves." - George W. Bush, Stockton, Calif., Aug. 23, 2002
6. "The trial lawyers are very politically powerful. - But here in TX we took them on and got some good medical - medical malpractice." - George W. Bush, Waco, TX, Aug. 13, 2002
7. "And one of the things we've got to make sure that we do is anything." - George W. Bush, discussing the Middle East after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Washington, DC, May 7, 2002
  8. "Sometimes, Washington is one of these towns where the person - people who think they've got the sharp elbow is the most effective person." - George W. Bush, New Orleans, LA, Dec. 3, 2002  
  9. "It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." - George W. Bush, June 14th, 2001  
  10. "Well, it's an unimaginable honor to be the president during the Fourth of July of this country. It means what these words say, for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We're blessed with such values in America. And I - it's - I'm a proud man to be the nation based upon such wonderful values." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, July 2, 2001  
  11. "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB- GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." - George W. Bush, Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004 [AUDIO]  
  12. "Part of the facts is understanding we have a problem, and part of the facts is what you're going to do about it." - George W. Bush, Kirtland, Ohio, April 15, 2005  
  13. "To address the cost of medical care, we need to apply 21st century information technology to the health care field. We need to have our medical records put on the IT." - George W. Bush, Collinsville, Illinois, Jan. 5, 2005
-- I'm not sure how you put records on the IT, but it sounds high-tech enough.
 
  14. "You can't see what you think is a threat and hope it goes away. You used to could when the oceans protected us, but the lesson of September the 11th is, is when the President sees a threat, we must deal with it before it -- before it comes to fruition through death on our own soils, for example." - George W. Bush, Albuquerque, NM, Mar. 26, 2004 [AUDIO]  
  15. "My most important job is to defend the homeland, to protect innocent Americans from the deaths of the killers." - George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 19, 2002  

 

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