Subject: Bushisms (Page 19)

And everybody wants to be loved – not everybody… you never heard anybody say, ‘I want to be despised, I’m running for office.’

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I know something about being a government… and you've got a good one.

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This is historic times.

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We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.

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You see, not only did the attacks help accelerate a recession, the attacks reminded us that we are at war.

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The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer – prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down, and I'm one of them.

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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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I'm sure you can imagine it's an unimaginable honor to live here.

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You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

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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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And so, in my State of the State of the Union or state my speech – whatever you want to call it, I asked Americans to give 4,000 years – 4,000 years over the next – the rest of your life – of service to America.

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I’ve got God’s shoulder to cry on… and I cry a lot.

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

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

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I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.

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The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

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As Luce reminded me, he said, without data, without facts, without information, the discussions about public education mean that a person is just another opinion.

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And most importantly, Alma Powell, secretary of Colin Powell, is with us.

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Laura and I really don’t realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis.

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I think we agree, the past is over.

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And I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president.

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