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
This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria... I saw her snatch this morning and it was amazing. (Said during a weightlifting competition)
View quotes by Pat Glenn
'There was more chalk than a James Bond movie' (Heard during Wimbledon commentary!)
View quotes by Frew McMillan
'Me and Justin are not dating. I don't have a boyfriend. I am an independent woman' - Britney tried to convince everyone she wasn't dating Justin, during a time when she was!
View quotes by Britney Spears
During FA Cup Final before Parlour shot & scored: 'It's only Ray Parlour..'
View quotes by Tim Lovejoy
Get off, you look ugly (to a blood splattered player during a game)
View quotes by Peter Marshall
Overpaid, overfed, oversexed, and over here (Of American troops in Britain during World War II)
View quotes by Tommy Trinder
My centre is giving away, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking (Message sent during the first Battle of the Marne)
View quotes by Ferdinand Foch
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
View quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
View quotes by Fedor Dostoevsky
After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.
View quotes by Vincent T Lombardi
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
View quotes by Otto Von Bismarck
I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
View quotes by Erma Bombeck
If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.
View quotes by James Thurber
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
View quotes by Barbara Tuchman
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
View quotes by Carl Sandburg
For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.
View quotes by J A Schumpeter
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
View quotes by Casey Stengel
True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure. The spirit is thought; thought is the heart; the heart is the fire; the fire is the Elixir.
View quotes by Albert Pike
He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
View quotes by Terry Pratchett
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