"If you teach a child how to read, he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."

"I have many opinions, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them."

"I've just finished speaking with my good friend President Fox of Mexico. We're discussing about an oil pipeline that will carry oil to the United States. That way, we will not have to depend on foreign oil. This is important because alot of our imported oil is from overseas."

"I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport."

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

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

"We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile."

"Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican." -George W. Bush, declining to take reporters' questions during a photo op with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, April 21, 2001