Subject: Bushisms (Page 12)

How can you possibly have an international agreement that's effective unless countries like China and India are not full participants?

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I listen carefully to their advice; but having gathered the device [sic], I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'

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The great thing about America is everybody should vote.

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I need to be able to move the right people to the right place at the right time to protect you, and I'm not going to accept a lousy bill out of the United Nations Senate.

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Nothing can be further than the truth.

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The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur.

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This has been tough weeks in that country.

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You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war president; no president wants to be a war president, but I am one.

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My job is a job to make decisions. I'm a decision – if the job description were, what do you do—it's decision maker.

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A lot of times in politics you have people look you in the eye and tell you what's not on their mind.

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I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.

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Nothing he [Saddam Hussein] has done has convinced me – I'm confident the Secretary of Defense – that he is the kind of fellow that is willing to forgo weapons of mass destruction, is willing to be a peaceful neighbor, that is – will honor the people – the Iraqi people of all stripes, will – values human life.

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Some call this civil war; others call it emergency – I call it pure evil.

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The decisions we make in Washington have a direct impact on the people in our country.

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Justice was being delivered to a man who defied that gift from the Almighty to the people of Iraq.

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Your eminence, you're looking good.

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I've not made up our mind about military action.

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And so, I hope investors, you know-secondly, I hope investors hold investments for periods of time – that I've always found the best investments are those that you salt away based on economics.

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Reading is the basics for all learning.

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I think it's very important for world leaders to understand that when a new administration comes in, the new administration will be running the foreign policy.

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The march to war hurt the economy. Laura reminded me a while ago that remember what was on the TV screens –- she calls me, 'George W.' – 'George W.' I call her, 'First Lady.' No, anyway – she said, we said, march to war on our TV screen.

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