Subject: Bushisms (Page 16)

I thought he was very forward-leaning, as they say in diplomatic nuanced circles.

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It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then.

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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 haven’t had a chance to talk, but I’m confident we’ll get a bill that I can live with if we don’t.

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You've also got to measure in order to begin to effect change that's just more — when there's more than talk, there's just actual—a paradigm shift.

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It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber.

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This is my maiden voyage… my first speech since I was the president of the United States and I couldn't think of a better place to give it than Calgary, Canada.

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I don’t particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it.

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First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.

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Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.

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The question is, who ought to make that decision? … the Congress or the commanders? … and as you know, my position is clear – I'm a commander guy.

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One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people's money to help prevent there to be a crisis.

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You see, the Senate wants to take away some of the powers of the administrative branch.

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There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal; maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern; maybe it's only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government… I reject that notion.

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Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.

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What I'm suggesting to you is, if you can't name the foreign minister of Mexico, therefore, you know, you're not capable of what you do.

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Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he’s a pretty good actor, too.

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We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House – make no mistake about it.

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When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.

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I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.

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Laura and I will thank them from the bottom of my heart.

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