Subject: Bushisms (Page 15)

I suspect that had my dad not been president, he’d be asking the same questions: How’d your meeting go with so-and-so? … How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address – state of the budget address – whatever you call it.

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I'm not really the type to wander off and sit down and go through deep wrestling with my soul.

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The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

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I know something about being a government. And you’ve got a good one.

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I'm a patient man; and when I say I'm a patient man, I mean I'm a patient man

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I’m going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there’s an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.

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I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions; I can't answer your question.

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The reason I believe in a large tax cut is because it’s what I believe.

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There's a huge trust; I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.’

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

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He married, like me, above his head.

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Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right.

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I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive.

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And we're by far the most generous nation in the world when it comes to that, and I'm proud to report that. This isn't a contest of who's the most generous. I'm just telling you as an aside. We're generous. We shouldn't be bragging about it. But we are. We're very generous.

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I think war is a dangerous place.

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This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin and in Leipzig. By the end of that year, every communist dictatorship in Central America had collapsed.

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And so the fact that they purchased the machine meant somebody had to make the machine; and when somebody makes a machine, it means there's jobs at the machine-making place.

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I don’t think we need to be subliminable [sic] about the differences between our views on prescription drugs.

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I'm oftentimes asked, “What difference does it make to America if people are dying of malaria in a place like Ghana?” … it means a lot… it means a lot morally, it means a lot from a – it's in our national interest.

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By making the right choices, we can make the right choice for our future.

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We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood.

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