Quotations
'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 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
'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
'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 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
BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
-Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 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 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 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.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000
'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
'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
View quotes by George W Bush
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
View quotes by Ronald Reagan
He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their face (describing play whilst commentating)
View quotes by Ron Atkinson
I know it's not a record that makes the night - it's a combination.
View quotes by Larry Leven
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
View quotes by William Golding
My man Friday (Robinson Crusoe)
View quotes by Daniel Defoe
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life (On Harold Macmillan sacking 7 cabinet members)
View quotes by Jeremy Thorpe
A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own (on the Jacobin)
View quotes by George Canning
If ever there was a case of clearer evidence than this of persons acting together, this case is that case (in Arabiniana)
View quotes by William Arabin
American women shoot the hippopotamus with eyebrows made of platinum (Abinger Harvest, 1936)
View quotes by E M Forster
We do know, of certain knowledge, that (Bin Laden) is either in Afghanistan or in some other country or dead.
View quotes by Donald Rumsfeld
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
View quotes by Dave Barry
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
View quotes by Richard Nixon
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
View quotes by Billie Jean King
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
View quotes by Dean Acheson
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
View quotes by Henri-Frederic Amiel
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.
View quotes by Kofi Annan
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
View quotes by James Baldwin
Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox.
View quotes by Dave Barry
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
View quotes by William Blake
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
View quotes by Miguel De Cervantes
Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
View quotes by Baron Pierre De Coubertin
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
View quotes by Harry S Truman
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