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
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
View quotes by Clement Attlee
While we were discussing what could make one happy, I said to him: Sanitas sanitatum et omnia sanitas.
View quotes by Giles Meage
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
View quotes by James Baldwin
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
View quotes by Robertson Davies
Discussion in America means dissent.
View quotes by James Thurber
I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
View quotes by Boris Pasternak
I believe Cecil Parkinson is the father. [Discussing a hermaphrodite waiter who had got pregnant]
View quotes by Gryf Rhys-Jones
If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
View quotes by Wendell Phillips
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
View quotes by Alfred Hitchcock
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
View quotes by Tocqueville
You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.
View quotes by Herbert Hoover
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
View quotes by Franklin Pierce
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
View quotes by Claude Monet
Hopefully after the Australian Open we won't have to discuss this any more [contaminated supplements]
View quotes by Greg Rusedski
If you're in the penalty area and aren't sure what to do with the ball, just stick it in the net, and we'll discuss your options afterwards.
View quotes by Bill Shankly
Plans are being discussed as to who will replace Dick Cheney if he has to resign for health reasons. It's not easy for President Bush, he can't just name a replacement. He would first have to be confirmed by the oil, gas and power companies.
View quotes by Jay Leno
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
View quotes by Peter F Drucker
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
View quotes by Holbrook Jackson
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
View quotes by Clifton Fadiman
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress
View quotes by Joseph Joubert
At my house, the main discussion at lunch was what we were going to have for dinner. Salads were either macaroni or Waldorf.
View quotes by Paul Lynde
The first comment I read was very nice, and the next comment was terribly flattering, and then the next one said something like 'I can't bear the sight of him!' [on web forum discussion on him being Doctor Who]
View quotes by David Tennant
We're having a philosophical discussion about the yob ethics of professional footballers.
View quotes by Tom Stoppard
Discussion is the first infirmity of feeble minds.
View quotes by Edward F Benson
This decision has been the most difficult of my career to date. But after discussing it with my family and those closest to me I feel the time is right
View quotes by David Beckham
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training.
View quotes by Paul Chambers
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