| Top Bushisms in the Category of: Stop Making Nonsense | |
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| 1. | "The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some of their own money." - George W. Bush, Westminster, CA, Sep. 13, 2000 -- As opposed to someone else's, I guess. | ||
| 2. | "You know, what's interesting about our country is that for years we were isolated from the world by two great oceans, and for a while we got a false sense of security as a result of that. We thought we were protected forever from trade policy or terrorist attacks because oceans protected us. What's interesting about today's world is that the oceans now connect us." - George W. Bush, Santiago, Chile, Nov. 20, 2004 | ||
| 3. | "Yes, that's a -- first of all, Mom, you're doing -- that's tough. But it's -- I appreciate that. I appreciate the idea of you wanting to give your children the education from you and the mom." - George W. Bush, Springfield, MO, Feb. 9, 2004 | ||
| 4. | "I'm -- I've just come from Washington to here, obviously -- I'm going down to L.A. I wish I came with my wife. I wish she were with me. She has done a fabulous job. I will see her tonight in Crawford, TX Well, she'll be the lump in the bed next to me, since I get in at 1:30 a.m. in the morning. But you drew the short straw. Had she come and spoken, you would have had the long straw. She is a -- she's a remarkable person. She has been calm and steady in the face of significant crisis." - George W. Bush, San Francisco, CA, Jun. 27, 2003 -- She can smile, she can listen. | ||
| 5. | "Everybody in Crawford says hello, starting with Laura. She is doing a fabulous day. I tell people it's because she's from Midland, TX." - George W. Bush, Dallas, TX, Mar. 29, 2002 -- Alrighty, then. | ||
| 6. | "And we're too close, our relationship is too strong to endure some of the slights that come along." - George W. Bush, on his relationship with wife Laura Bush, Interview with Tom Brokaw, Jan. 23, 2002 | ||
| 7. | "See, free nations do not develop weapons of mass destruction." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Oct. 8, 2003 | ||
| 8. | "But it used to be that oceans -- we thought oceans could protect us, that we were guarded by the oceans. And that if there was a threat overseas, as a result of the protection from the oceans, we could decide whether to be involved or not. It might affect us overseas, but it couldn't affect us at home. And therefore, we have the luxury of kind of picking and choosing gathering threats." - George W. Bush, Kennesaw, GA, Feb. 20, 2003 | ||
| 9. | "So long as we love freedom, they hate us, and they want to hurt us. That's just the facts of life, as we head into the 21st century." - George W. Bush, Houston, TX, Sep. 26, 2002 | ||
| 10. | "The best place for the facts to be done is by somebody who's spending time investigating it." - George W. Bush, on the probe into how CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity was leaked, Washington, DC, July 18, 2005 | ||
| 11. | "If America goes to sleep, the rest of the world is in
trouble. If we blink, the rest of the world will close their eyes. So we're
not blinking, and we're not going to sleep." - George W. Bush, Los
Angeles, CA, Apr. 29, 2002 -- To summarize, Blinking: bad, Sleeping: bad |
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| 12. | "I see a peaceful world, I do. The rest of the world
watches us very carefully. I like to say, 'If the United States blinks,
they'll go to sleep.' We're not going to blink." - George W. Bush,
Dallas, TX, Mar. 29, 2002 -- I have no idea what the blinking and sleeping means, but it is Dubya after all |
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| 13. | "Listen, I want to thank leaders of the - in the faith - faith-based and community-based community for being here." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Sept. 6, 2005 [AUDIO] |
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