Once in a while, someone comes along who leaves us with a long list of great quotes. At other times, we get quotes like the ones from George W. Bush. Please keep in mind, this is not a complete listing of all of his flubs...I don't have enough web space for that.

"I would have to ask the questioner. I haven't had a chance to ask the questioners the questions they've been questioning."

"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program."

"I think we agree, the past is over."

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."

"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature."

"They misunderestimated me."

"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"

"The important question is, how many hands have I shaked?"

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."

"We're going to have the best educated American people in the world."

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."

"Guns don't kill people; guns are designed and manufacture for the purpose of enabling people to use the guns to kill people."

"I was not elected to serve one party."

"Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. You fool me, I can't get fooled again."

From Hardball:
Bush: "First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's diecis�is de Septiembre, and ..."
Matthews: "What's that in English?"
Bush: "Fifteenth of September." (actually...its the 16th)

"This issue really resignates with the American people."

"Actually, I -- this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about -- when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me."

"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis."

"I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California."

"We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal cufflink."

"The fact that he relies on facts -- says things that are not factual -- are going to undermine his campaign."

"I understand small business growth. I was one."

"The senator has got to understand if he's going to have he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road."

"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."

"How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?"

"We ought to make the pie higher."

"I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less I pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm more interacting with people."

"I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth."

"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case."

"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"

"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve."

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses."

"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself."

"There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be town hall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country."

"Keep good relations with the Grecians." (good relations with hair care products?)

"I say this to the countries of the Middle East; don't you dare hold us or our allies hostile!"

"One of the great things about books is that sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."

"Families is where we find hope, where wings take dream."

"He's the kind of fellow who says when he gives you his word he means it. Sometimes that doesn't happen all the time in the political process."

"The American peoples expectations are that we will fail. Our mission is to exceed their expectations."

"Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican."

"For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it."