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
'Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.'
View quotes by Aesop
On Ali G: 'He's made a fortune out of me. If I wasn't here, he would be skint.'
View quotes by Sir Jimmy Saville
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war! (Proclamation, 18 June 1940)
View quotes by Charles De Gaulle
The only safe pleasure for a parliamentarian is a bag of boiled sweets (Listener, 10 June 1982)
View quotes by Julian Critchley
He did not see any reason why the devil should have all the good tunes (E.W.Broome)
View quotes by Rowland Hill
Fortune, that favours fools (The Alchemist)
View quotes by Ben Jonson
What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings
For equal division of unequal earnings
View quotes by Ebenezer Elliott
The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings (Washington Post 3 June 1978)
View quotes by Dan Cook
Turn on, tune in, and drop out (The Politics of Ecstacy)
View quotes by Timothy Leary
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy (speech in Albany, 27 June 1933)
View quotes by Alfred Emanuel Smith
Sydney, whom we yet admire
Lighting our little torches at his fire (Funeral Elegies)
View quotes by Sir Aston Cokayne
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