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
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
View quotes by Ronald Reagan
Overpaid, overfed, oversexed, and over here (Of American troops in Britain during World War II)
View quotes by Tommy Trinder
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
View quotes by Blaise Pascal
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
View quotes by Joseph Addison
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
View quotes by Pearl Buck
My mother never breast-fed me. She told me she liked me as a friend.
View quotes by Rodney Dangerfield
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
View quotes by Ezra Pound
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
View quotes by Ronald Reagan
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
View quotes by Judy Garland
Economists predict that this year's federal surplus will be $120 billion less than predicted in January. The missing $120 billion was reportedly last seen on a date with Congressman Gary Condit.
View quotes by Dennis Miller
The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
View quotes by Hannah More
The chambers in the house of dreams
Are fed with so divine an air, That
Time's hoary wings grow young therein,
And they who walk there are most fair.
View quotes by Francis Thompson
The British Secret Service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB.
View quotes by Clive James
We plough the fields and scatter
The good seed on the land,
But it is fed and watered
By God's almighty hand;
He sends the snow in winter,
The warmth to swell the grain,
The breezes and the sunshine
And soft refreshing rain. [Hymn]
View quotes by Matthias Claudius
I think there's a possibility that Phoebe may have some of my dancing genes - she points her toes when she is being fed. [Talking about her daughter]
View quotes by Darcey Bussell
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
View quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright
Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
View quotes by Samuel Johnson
I don't think I've ever seen a guy play that well in my life. [on losing to Federer at the 2004 end of year tournament]
View quotes by Lleyton Hewitt
These are the same old fogies who doffed their lids and tugged the forelock to the British establishment [of Aussie Tory supporters of Britain]
View quotes by Paul Keating
He was too good. I would suggest to his next opponent that he doesn't look to me for advice [on losing to Federer]
View quotes by Andre Agassi
One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.
View quotes by Hilary Clinton
Fans are fed-up watching players misbehave in public. These guys are role models to kinds. They must set a good example. [on Jermaine Pennant]
View quotes by Keeley
I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.
View quotes by Margaret Thatcher
There's a couple of things creeping into the game that people are fed up with - one's diving and the other is swearing.
View quotes by Alan Curbishley
In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.
View quotes by Conan O'Brien
Roger [Federer], he brought tennis... one level higher. Normally he toys with everybody. With all respect to other players, he does whatever he wants on the court against them. It's incredible what kind of game he can play.
View quotes by Marat Safin
If he doesn't play very, very well and I play one of my best matches, I have a little bit of a chance [on his Masters final appearance vs Roger Federer]
View quotes by Rafael Nadal
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