George W. Bush quotes

Some of dubya's finest quotes...

1. "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."

2. "One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."

3. "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."
-George W. Bush, Feb. 21, 2001

4. "If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!"
-George W. Bush, Bellevue Community College, Nov. 2, 2000

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

6. "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."

7. "There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it."
-George W. Bush, speaking to Catholic leaders at the White House, Jan. 31, 2001

8. "Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment."
-George W. Bush, Jan. 2001

9. "Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods."
-George W. Bush, Dec. 20, 2000

10. "They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program."
-George W. Bush

11. "We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.''
-George W. Bush.

12. "I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating."
-George W. Bush

13. "Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?"
-George W. Bush

14. "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."
-George W. Bush

15. "If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow."
-George W. Bush, Jan. 2000

16. "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
-George W. Bush

17. "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there."
-George W. Bush, Jan. 2000

18. "One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected."
-George W. Bush

19. "The great thing about America is everybody should vote."
-George W. Bush

20. "There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead."
-George W. Bush, May 11, 2001

21. "I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them."
-George W. Bush, Dec. 20, 2000

22. "First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country."
-George W. Bush, on the Kyoto accord, April 24, 2001

23. "The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants."
-George W. Bush, Jan. 2001

24. "I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure."
-George W. Bush, Jan. 2001

25. "This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end."
-George W. Bush, April 10, 2001

26. "If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all."
-George W. Bush, May 22, 2001

27. "Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican."
-George W. Bush, declining to take reporters' questions during a photo op with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, April 21, 2001

28. "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."
-George W. Bush, May 1, 2001