Subject: Bushisms (Page 6)

Your eminence, you're looking good.

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I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Thirdly the explorationists are willing to only move equipment during the winter, which means they’ll be on ice roads, and remove the equipment as the ice begins to melt, so that the fragile tundra is protected.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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

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I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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

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You've also got to measure in order to begin to effect change that's just more — when there's more than talk, there's just actual—a paradigm shift.

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I think it's very important for world leaders to understand that when a new administration comes in, the new administration will be running the foreign policy.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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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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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This is Preservation Month… I appreciate preservation… it's what you do when you run for president… you gotta preserve.

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It’s terrible how those killers at Columbine had their hearts turned dark as a result of being on the Internet.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I've heard he's been called Bush's poodle… he's bigger than that.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I’m also not very analytical. You know I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur.

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And so, what Gen. Petraeus is saying, some early signs, still dangerous, but give me – give my chance a plan to work.

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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 want to thank you for strategizing our discussions.

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