Subject: Bushisms (Page 22)

They didn't think we were a nation that could conceivably sacrifice for something greater than our self; that we were soft, that we were so self-absorbed and so materialistic that we wouldn't defend anything we believed in… my, were they wrong; they just were reading the wrong magazine or watching the wrong Springer show.

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May of the punditry – of course, not you… but other punditry were quick to say, no one is going to follow the United States of America.

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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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Listen, I want to thank leaders of the – in the faith – faith – based and community – based community for being here.

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

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I cut the taxes on everybody. I didn't cut them. The Congress cut them. I asked them to cut them.

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We're fixing to go down to Galveston and obviously are going to see a devastated part of this fantastic state.

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Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself.

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And Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.

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I know something about being a government. And you’ve got a good one.

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Some call this civil war; others call it emergency – I call it pure evil.

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