Subject: Bushisms (Page 5)

When you're out there campaigning and talking to people, remind them what we have been through as a country. We've been through a recession – that means we're going backwards.

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A lot of times in politics you have people look you in the eye and tell you what's not on their mind.

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I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

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Oftentimes, we live in a processed world, you know, people focus on the process and not results.

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This thaw – took a while to thaw, it’s going to take a while to unthaw.

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We had a chance to visit with Teresa Nelson who's a parent, and a mom or a dad.

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It's your money; you paid for it.

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John Thune has got a common-sense vision for good forest policy. I look forward to working with him in the United Nations Senate to preserve these national heritages.

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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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In my sentences I go where no man has gone before… I am a boon to the English language.

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First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers; just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill.

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Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking.”

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

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Nothing he [Saddam Hussein] has done has convinced me – I'm confident the Secretary of Defense – that he is the kind of fellow that is willing to forgo weapons of mass destruction, is willing to be a peaceful neighbor, that is – will honor the people – the Iraqi people of all stripes, will – values human life.

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Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right.

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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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The decisions we make in Washington have a direct impact on the people in our country.

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We're kicking ass.

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I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.

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My pro-life position is I believe there's life; it's not necessarily based in religion; I think there's a life there, therefore the notion of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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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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