Subject: Bushisms (Page 20)

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

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You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war president; no president wants to be a war president, but I am one.

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Mars is essentially in the same orbit… Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important.

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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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These immigrants have helped transform 13 small colonies into a great and growing nation of more than 300 people.

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Sometimes, Washington is one of these towns where the person – people who think they've got the sharp elbow is the most effective person.

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The important question is, how many hands have I shaked?

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We need to counter the shockwave of the evildoer by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates.

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Reading is the basics for all learning.

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We ended the rule of one of history's worst tyrants, and in so doing, we not only freed the American people, we made our own people more secure.

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I need to be able to move the right people to the right place at the right time to protect you, and I'm not going to accept a lousy bill out of the United Nations Senate.

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We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.

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As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured.

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

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I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe – I believe what I believe is right.

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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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It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children.

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You subscribe to politics to it. I subscribe freedom to it.

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The thing that’s wrong with the French is that they don’t have a word for entrepreneur.

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