Subject: Bushisms (Page 17)

And my concern, David, is several.

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I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft.

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There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk—that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras—it got drunk and now it's got a hangover. The question is how long will it sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments.

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… the person who runs FEMA is the first voice, often times, of someone whose life has been turned upside down hears from.

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There’s no doubt in my mind that we should allow the world’s worst leaders to hold America hostage, to threaten our peace, to threaten our friends and allies with the world’s worst weapons.

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I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

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It's clearly a budget; it's got a lot of numbers in it.

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

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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

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I don’t remember debates. I don’t think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don’t remember.

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

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We are fully committed to working with both sides to bring the level of terror down to an acceptable level for both.

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I can look you in the eye and tell you I feel I've tried to solve the problem diplomatically to the max, and would have committed troops both in Afghanistan and Iraq knowing what I know today.

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You might want to comment on that, Honorable.

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Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties.

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But I also made it clear to (Vladimir Putin) that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.

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See, one of the interesting things in the Oval Office – I love to bring people into the Oval Office – right around the corner from here – and say, this is where I office, but I want you to know the office is always bigger than the person.

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

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It’s terrible how those killers at Columbine had their hearts turned dark as a result of being on the Internet.

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Perhaps one way will be, if we use military force, in the post-Saddam Iraq, the U.N. will definitely need to have a role; and that way it can begin to get its legs, legs of responsibility back.

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We stand for things.

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