'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
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A committee is an animal with four back legs
View quotes by John Le Carre
Guidelines for bureaucrats:
(1) when in charge, ponder
(2) when in trouble, delegate
(3) when in doubt, mumble
View quotes by James H Boren
So, I am a b*stard, and the English are b*stards. But the really bad news is that you are too. My vision of Europe would be Europe of b*stards for whom the question of legitimacy was a site of endless struggle and contestation...
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'He didn't quite manage to get his leg over.' - about Ian Botham, though admittedly on the cricket pitch at the time
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At first I thought it was gonna be bubblegum pop - that I'd have to stand in front of the camera, wear pink and jump around. I wasn't prepared to do that, because of the work I've done in the past.
View quotes by Myleene Klass
If they want me down to 12 stone, I would have to cut off a leg
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You won the elections, but I won the count. (Replying to an allegation of ballet rigging)
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Nature has no cure for this sort of madness (Bolshevism), though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.
View quotes by F E Smith (first Earl Of Birkenhead)
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral or fattening (Wit's End)
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies (Elegies 'The Anagram')
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Thank you, madam, the agony is abated.
'aged 4, having hot coffee spilt over his legs'
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May I be looking at you when my last hour has come, and dying may I hold you with my weakening hand (Elegies)
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Am I not a man and a brother (Legend on Wedgwood cameo)
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That Shakespeare rag -
Most intelligent, very elegant
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