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"Harvey Newstrom" <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote in message
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> Gonzo Jones <gonzojones@NOyahoo.SPAMcom> wrote:
>
> > And you though Dan Quayle and Al Gore could say some stupid things...
> >
> > Bush Quotes
>
> These are all old, well-known Dan Quayle quotes.  Someone has just
> recycled them as Bush Quotes.

This is true, there is no reason to recyle thes Quayle quotes, especially
since there are so MANY real Bush quotes.

http://slate.msn.com/Features/bushisms/bushisms.asp


"The great thing about America is everybody should vote."�Austin, Texas,
Dec. 8, 2000

      "Dick Cheney and I do not want this nation to be in a recession. We
want anybody who can find work to be able to find work."�60 Minutes II, Dec.
5, 2000

      "I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a
discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race."
      �Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2,
2000

      "As far as the legal hassling and wrangling and posturing in Florida,
I would suggest you talk to our team in Florida led by Jim Baker."�Crawford,
Texas, Nov. 30, 2000

      "The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's
job to interpret law."�Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000

      "They misunderestimated me."�Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

      "Think about that. Two hundred and eighty-five new or expanded
programs, $2 trillion more in new spending, and not one new bureaucrat to
file out the forms or answer the phones?"�Minneapolis, Nov. 1, 2000

      "They want the federal government controlling Social Security like
it's some kind of federal program."�St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000

      "They said, 'You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the
people.' And I said, you know something? Whether it resignates or not
doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and
what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work."�Portland,
Ore., Oct. 31, 2000

      "Anyway, after we go out and work our hearts out, after you go out and
help us turn out the vote, after we've convinced the good Americans to vote,
and while they're at it, pull that old George W. lever, if I'm the one, when
I put my hand on the Bible, when I put my hand on the Bible, that day when
they swear us in, when I put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not�to
uphold the laws of the land."�Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 27, 2000

      "It's your money. You paid for it."�LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

      "That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st
century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th
century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century. "�On the Lewinsky
scandal, Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000

      "It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is
important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living
in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet."�Arlington Heights, Ill.,
Oct. 24, 2000

      "I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and
our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense system so that we can make
the world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own
nuclear capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace."�Des
Moines, Iowa, Oct. 23, 2000

      "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take
dream."�LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

      "If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're
going to have gag orders."

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

      "It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term."

      "I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun."

      "Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is�I'm not sure 80 percent
of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm
the president."

      "Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about."

      "If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then
I'm for it."�St. Louis, Mo., October 18, 2000

      "Our priorities is our faith."�Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000

      "I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial
profiling, which is illiterate children."�Second presidential debate, Oct.
11, 2000 (Thanks to Leonard Williams.)

      "It's going to require numerous IRA agents."�On Gore's tax plan,
Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000

      "I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to
answer questions. I can't answer your question."�In response to a question
about whether he wished he could take back any of his answers in the first
debate. Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2000 (Thanks to Peter Feld.)

      "I would have my secretary of treasury be in touch with the financial
centers, not only here but at home."�Boston, Oct. 3, 2000 (Thanks to M.
Bateman.)

      "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."�Saginaw,
Mich., Sept. 29, 2000

      "I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy."�Redwood, Calif., Sept.
27, 2000

      "One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise
above that which is expected."�Los Angeles, Sept. 27, 2000

      "It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more
of our imports come from overseas."�Beaverton, Ore., Sep. 25, 2000

      "Well, that's going to be up to the pundits and the people to make up
their mind. I'll tell you what is a president for him, for example, talking
about my record in the state of Texas. I mean, he's willing to say anything
in order to convince people that I haven't had a good record in
Texas."�MSNBC, Sept. 20, 2000 (Thanks to Gregory H. Monberg.)

      "I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans."�Oprah, Sept. 19,
2000

      "A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic
illness."�The Edge With Paula Zahn, Sept. 18, 2000

      "The woman who knew that I had dyslexia�I never interviewed
her."�Orange, Calif., Sept. 15, 2000

      "The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some
of their own money."�Westminster, Calif., Sept. 13, 2000

      "They have miscalculated me as a leader."�Ibid.

      "I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences
between our views on prescription drugs."�Orlando, Fla., Sept. 12, 2000

      "This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens,
I like interfacing with them."�Outside Pittsburgh, Sept. 8, 2000

      "That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting
ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired."�Westland,
Mich., Sept. 8, 2000

      "Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He
      represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally
      comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where
      I'm coming from."�Detroit, Sept. 7, 2000 (Thanks to Michael Butler,
Houston, Texas.)

      "We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country
called America will be the pacemakers."�Houston, Texas, Sept. 6, 2000

      "We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on
behalf of Americans."�Scranton, Pa., Sept. 6, 2000

      "I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential
candidate made it through the public airways."�Allentown, Pa., Sept. 5,
2000.

      "The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come
and is coming."--on his anti-Gore ad, in an interview with the New York
Times, Sept. 2, 2000

      "As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public
schools, and I have met those standards."--CNN online chat, Aug. 30, 2000

      "Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do
it, that's trustworthiness."--Ibid.

      "I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know

I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes."�Des
Moines, Iowa, Aug. 21, 2000

      ''This campaign not only hears the voices of the entrepreneurs and the
farmers and the entrepreneurs, we hear the voices of those struggling to get
ahead."�Ibid.

      "We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile
or hold our allies hostile.''�Ibid.

      "I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who
brings people together."�Bartlett, Tenn., Aug. 18, 2000 (Thanks to Tarja
Black.)

      "I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were
wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where."�Interview with the
Associated Press, Aug. 11, 2000 (Thanks to Ryan Rhodes.)

      "I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary
thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our
thinking."�Salinas, Calif., Aug. 10, 2000 (Thanks to Kris Sester.)

      "And if he continues that, I'm going to tell the nation what I think
about him as a human being and a person."�President George H.W. Bush, on the
Today show, Aug. 1, 2000

      "You might want to comment on that, Honorable."--To New Jersey's
secretary of state, the Hon. DeForest Soaries Jr., as quoted by Dana Milbank
in the Washington Post, July 15, 2000





     "This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I
understand the emotionality of death penalty cases."--Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, June 23, 2000 (Thanks to Johnny Green.)

      "States should have the right to enact reasonable laws and
restrictions particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that
otherwise could live."�Cleveland, June 29, 2000 (Thanks to Douglas Basford.)

      "Unfairly but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against
things. Anti-immigrant, for example. And we're not a party of
anti-immigrants. Quite the opposite. We're a party that welcomes
people."�Cleveland, July 1, 2000 (Thanks to M. Bateman.)

      "The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president when
it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, it's
going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective."�In
Wayne, Mich., as quoted by Katharine Q. Seelye in the New York Times, June
28, 2000

      "The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have
reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person
that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty ... I mean innocent
person to death in the state of Texas." All Things Considered, NPR, June 16,
2000 (Thanks to Andy Nouraee.)

      "I'm gonna talk about the ideal world, Chris. I've read�I understand
reality. If you're asking me as the president, would I understand reality, I
do."�On abortion, Hardball, MSNBC; May 31, 2000

       "There's not going to be enough people in the system to take
advantage of people like me."�On the coming Social Security crisis; Wilton,
Conn.; June 9, 2000 (Thanks to Andy Mais.)

      "I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job
is underestimating."�U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000 (Thanks to
Alfred Stanley, Austin, Texas.)

      Bush: "First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's
diecis�is de Septiembre, and ..."
      Matthews: "What's that in English?"
      Bush: "Fifteenth of September." (Diecis�is de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
      �Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000 (Thanks to numerous readers.)

      "Actually, I�this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it.
When I'm talking about�when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking
about myself, all of us are talking about me."�Ibid.

      "This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past. In the
past we were certain, we were certain it was us versus the Russians in the
past. We were certain, and therefore we had huge nuclear arsenals aimed at
each other to keep the peace. That's what we were certain of. ... You see,
even though it's an uncertain world, we're certain of some things. We're
certain that even though the 'evil empire' may have passed, evil still
remains. We're certain there are people that can't stand what America stands
for. ... We're certain there are madmen in this world, and there's terror,
and there's missiles and I'm certain of this, too: I'm certain to maintain
the peace, we better have a military of high morale, and I'm certain that
under this administration, morale in the military is dangerously
low."�Albuquerque, N.M., the Washington Post, May 31, 2000

      "He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because
the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him
to be."�On Rudy Giuliani, The Edge With Paula Zahn, May 18, 2000 (Thanks to
Peter Goldman.)

      "The fact that he relies on facts�says things that are not factual�are
going to undermine his campaign."�New York Times, March 4, 2000 (Thanks to
Garry Trudeau.)

      "I think we agree, the past is over."�On his meeting with John McCain,
Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000

      "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."--Reuters,
May 5, 2000 (Thanks to Allison Fansler.)

      GOV. BUSH: Because the picture on the newspaper. It just seems so
un-American to me, the picture of the guy storming the house with a scared
little boy there. I talked to my little brother, Jeb�I haven't told this to
many people. But he's the governor of�I shouldn't call him my little
brother--my brother, Jeb, the great governor of Texas.
      JIM LEHRER: Florida.
      GOV. BUSH: Florida. The state of the Florida.�The NewsHour With Jim
Lehrer, April 27, 2000

      "I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested
to know."�On what happened in negotiations between the Justice Department
and Eli�n Gonz�lez's Miami relatives, as quoted by the Associated Press,
April 26, 2000 (Thanks to Saul Selzer.)

      "Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes
until we get an objective analysis."�Meet the Press, April 15, 2000

      "You subscribe politics to it. I subscribe freedom to it."�Responding
to a question about whether he and Al Gore were making the Eli�n Gonz�lez
case a political issue. In Palm Beach, Fla., as quoted by the Associated
Press, April 6, 2000 (Thanks to Helen Kennedy.)

      "I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to
California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California."�In
Los Angeles as quoted by the Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000

      "Reading is the basics for all learning."�Announcing his "Reading
First" initiative in Reston, Va., March 28, 2000 (Thanks to Carl LaRocca.)

      "We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations,
their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science
of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal�federal
cufflink."�At Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, March 30, 2000

      "Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and
negative ads."�Fund-raising letter from George W. Bush, quoted in the
Washington Post, March 24, 2000

      "I've got a reason for running. I talk about a larger goal, which is
to call upon the best of America. It's part of the renewal. It's reform and
renewal. Part of the renewal is a set of high standards and to remind people
that the greatness of America really does depend on neighbors helping
neighbors and children finding mentors. I worry. I'm very worried about, you
know, the kid who just wonders whether America is meant for him. I really
worry about that. And uh, so, I'm running for a reason. I'm answering this
question here and the answer is, you cannot lead America to a positive
tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative. And
so to answer your question, I'm going to win because people sense my heart,
know my sense of optimism and know where I want to lead the country. And I
tease people by saying, 'A leader, you can't say, follow me the world is
going to be worse.' I'm an optimistic person. I'm an inherently content
person. I've got a great sense of where I want to lead and I'm comfortable
with why I'm running. And, you know, the call on that speech was, beware.
This is going to be a tough campaign."�Interview with the Washington Post,
March 23, 2000

      "People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an
example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your
speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust
me."�Interview with the New York Times, March 15, 2000

      "It's evolutionary, going from governor to president, and this is a
significant step, to be able to vote for yourself on the ballot, and I'll be
able to do so next fall, I hope."�In an interview with the Associated Press,
March 8, 2000 (Thanks to Joshua Micah Marshall.)

      "It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in
nature.''�Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000

      "I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those
college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because
I happened to go to the university."�Today, Feb. 23, 2000

      "I understand small business growth. I was one."�New York Daily News,
Feb. 19, 2000

      "The senator has got to understand if he's going to have�he can't have
it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road."�To
reporters in Florence, S.C., Feb. 17, 2000

      "Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really pleased with the
organization and the thousands of South Carolinians that worked on my
behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled."�To Cokie Roberts, This Week,
Feb. 20, 2000

      "I don't want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on the
bus 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving hundreds of speeches,
getting pillared in the press and cartoons and still staying on message to
win?"�Newsweek, Feb. 28, 2000

      "I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did
it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists."�ibid.

      "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and
principles, come and join this campaign."�Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000

      "How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply
suckles kids through?"�Explaining the need for educational accountability in
Beaufort, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000

      "We ought to make the pie higher."�South Carolina Republican Debate,
Feb. 15, 2000

      "I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to
attract votes and to lead people toward a better tomorrow somehow I get
subscribed to some�some doctrine gets subscribed to me."�Meet The Press,
Feb. 13, 2000

      "I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less�I pontificate
less, although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm more
interacting with people."�ibid

      "I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle
class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth."�Nashua, N.H., as quoted
by Gail Collins in the New York Times, Feb. 1, 2000

      "The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my
case."�Pella, Iowa, as quoted by the San Antonio Express-News, Jan. 30, 2000

      "Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"�Concord, N.H.,
Jan. 29, 2000

      "This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you
do when you run for president. You gotta preserve."�Speaking during
"Perseverance Month" at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As
quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000

      "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."�Greater
Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000

      "What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they
basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I
think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody
else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.''�Quoted
by Molly Ivins, the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000 (Thanks to Toni
L. Gould.)

      "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly
who they were," he said. "It was us vs. them, and it was clear who them was.
Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there."�Iowa
Western Community College, Jan 21, 2000

      "The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women who are
focused on what's best for America, honest men and women, decent men and
women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and
who will not stain the house."�Des Moines Register debate, Iowa, Jan. 15,
2000

      "This is still a dangerous world.  It's a world of madmen and
uncertainty and potential mential losses."�At a South Carolina oyster roast,
as quoted in the Financial Times, Jan. 14, 2000

      "We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like
you like to be liked yourself."�ibid.

      "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"�Florence,
S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

      "Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure."�ibid.

      "There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to
be town-hall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge
country."�Larry King Live, Dec. 16, 1999

      "I read the newspaper."�In answer to a question about his reading
habits, New Hampshire Republican Debate, Dec. 2, 1999

      "I think it's important for those of us in a position of
responsibility to be firm in sharing our experiences, to understand that the
babies out of wedlock is a very difficult chore for mom and baby alike. ...
I believe we ought to say there is a different alternative than the culture
that is proposed by people like Miss Wolf in society. ... And, you know,
hopefully, condoms will work, but it hasn't worked."�Meet the Press, Nov.
21, 1999

      "The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all
parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them."�From A Charge To
Keep, by George W. Bush, published November 1999

      "It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his
party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents."�Keene, N.H.,
Oct. 22, 1999, quoted in the New Republic, Nov. 15, 1999

      "The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?"�Answering a
question about why he hasn't spent more time in New Hampshire, in the New
York Times, Oct. 23, 1999

      "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."�On discussions of the
Vietnam War when he was an undergraduate at Yale, Washington Post, July 27,
1999

      "The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand
from your foreign minister, who came to Texas."�To a Slovak journalist as
quoted by Knight Ridder News Service, June 22, 1999. Bush's meeting was with
Janez Drnovsek, the prime minister of Slovenia.

      "If the East Timorians decide to revolt, I'm sure I'll have a
statement."�Quoted by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, June 16, 1999

      "Keep good relations with the Grecians."�Quoted in the Economist, June
12, 1999

      "Kosovians can move back in."�CNN Inside Politics, April 9, 1999

      "It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then."�From a 1994
interview, as quoted in First Son, by Bill Minutaglio