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 opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings (Washington Post 3 June 1978)
View quotes by Dan Cook
A citizen, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
( Funeral oration on the death of George Washington.)
View quotes by Henry Lee
Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has lived before us-Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.
View quotes by Jacob Bronowski
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
View quotes by Harry S Truman
I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.
View quotes by Harry S Truman
Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.
View quotes by Dennis Miller
Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.
View quotes by Dennis Miller
The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
View quotes by Ralph Nader
Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
View quotes by Alistair Cooke
The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.
View quotes by Howard Dean
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
View quotes by Henry Adams
A student from the University of Washington has sold his soul on eBay for $400.
View quotes by Jay Leno
I figure I'll be the champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys in Washington.
View quotes by Muhammad Ali
Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.
View quotes by Woodrow Wilson
Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?
View quotes by Steven Wright
Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes.
View quotes by Alec Baldwin
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
View quotes by Robert Orben
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