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
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around
View quotes by Jim Rohn
I said 'Are you a Christian or a Jew?'
He said 'Christian.'
I said 'Me too! Protestant or Catholic?'
He said 'Protestant.'
I said 'Me too! What franchise?'
He said 'Baptist.'
I said 'Me too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?'
He said 'Northern Baptist.'
I said 'Me too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Reform Baptist?'
He said 'Northern Conservative Baptist.'
I said 'Me too! Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist or Northern Conservative Reform Baptist?'
He said 'Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist.'
I said 'Me too! Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region or Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Eastern Region?'
He said 'Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region.'
I said 'Me too! Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912 or Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region of 1850?'
He said 'Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.'
I said 'Die heretic!'
And I pushed him off the bridge!
View quotes by Emo Philips
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
View quotes by Allen Ginsberg
'I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.'
View quotes by Anne Frank
I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.
View quotes by Jonny Wilkinson
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
View quotes by Dame Edith Sitwell
Rats!
They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
.....
View quotes by Robert Browning
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, Is in a prince the virtue (The Bashful Lover)
View quotes by Philip Massinger
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual
View quotes by Maximillian Robespierre
Where observation is concerned, chance favours only the prepared mind.
View quotes by Louis Pasteur
Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs (Private Lives, 1930)
View quotes by Noel Coward
The most conservative man in this world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
View quotes by Ernest Bevin
And the sooner the tea's out of the way, the sooner we can get out the gin, eh? (Private Life of Hilda Tablet)
View quotes by Henry Reed
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