Subject: Bushisms (Page 14)

They have miscalculated me as a leader.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done; and to the C students, I say, you too can be the President of the United States.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass in my lake.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I want to thank all the Canadians who came out today to wave to me – with all five fingers!

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

We want people owning their home – we want people owning a businesses.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

This is Preservation Month… I appreciate preservation… it's what you do when you run for president… you gotta preserve.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I’ve reminded the prime minister—the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

In my judgment, when the United States says there will be serious consequences, and if there isn't serious consequences, it creates adverse consequences.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Haven’t we already given money to rich people? Why are we going to do it again?

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

People say, well, do you ever hear any other voices other than, like, a few people? … of course I do.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Many Americans have got debts; we want those Americans to be able to pay off that debts.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

What I'm telling you is there's too many junk lawsuits suing too many doctors.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Whether it resonates or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

When I’m talking about… when I’m talking about myself, and when he’s talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president