Author: George W. Bush Page 3

There is no such thing necessarily in a dictatorial regime of iron-clad absolutely solid evidence. The evidence I had was the best possible evidence that he had a weapon.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

You know, sometimes when you study history, you get stuck in the past.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

Other Republican candidates may retort [sic] to personal attacks and negative ads.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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I do remain confident in Linda; she'll make a fine labor secretary; from what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly qualified.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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There's no cave deep enough for America, or dark enough to hide.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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And everybody wants to be loved – not everybody… you never heard anybody say, ‘I want to be despised, I’m running for office.’

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory – and success.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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The government is not the surplus’s money…

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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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.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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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.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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I don’t particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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If I become president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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I’ve got God’s shoulder to cry on… and I cry a lot.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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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.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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I know something about being a government. And you’ve got a good one.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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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.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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And we're by far the most generous nation in the world when it comes to that, and I'm proud to report that. This isn't a contest of who's the most generous. I'm just telling you as an aside. We're generous. We shouldn't be bragging about it. But we are. We're very generous.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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And that’s why I’m here at the community college system today.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms