Subject: Bushisms (Page 20)

Natural gas is hemispheric; I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

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My answer is bring them on.

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I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family; that's an important part of building morale in the military.

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Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it.

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To paraphrase President Kennedy, there's America, and then there's Texas. We have great relations with France. We work closely with the French government on a lot of issues.

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I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy on teaching children to read and having an education system that's responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, will make America what we want it to be – a more literate country and a hopefuller country.

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More Muslims have died at the hands of killers than – I say more Muslims – a lot of Muslims have died – I don’t know the exact count – at Istanbul. Look at these different places around the world where there’s been tremendous death and destruction because killers kill.

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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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It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then.

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I spoke out against interracial dating; I support the policy of interracial dating.

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I fully understand those who say you can't win this thing militarily; that's exactly what the United States military says, that you can't win this military.

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One of the interesting initiatives we’ve taken in Washington, D.C., is we’ve got these vampire-busting devices. A vampire is a – a cell deal you can plug in the wall to charge your cell phone.

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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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I’ve reminded the prime minister—the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship.

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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 can assure you that, even though I won’t be sitting through every single moment of the seminars, nor will the vice president, we will look at the summaries.

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I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here.

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Amigo! Amigo!

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I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.

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We want people owning their home – we want people owning a businesses.

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If he's… the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a… is a noble institution I would… I would strongly reject that assumption… that John Ashcroft is a open-minded, inclusive person.

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