"This morning my administration released the budget numbers for fiscal 2006. These budget numbers are not just estimates; these are the actual results for the fiscal year that ended February the 30th."
--George W. Bush,
at press conference, Eisenhower Executive Office Building, October 11, 2006
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
--George W. Bush,
signing a defense spending bill, August 5, 2004
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
--George W. Bush,
to the Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce, January 27, 2000
"I'm a person that realizes the fallacy of humans."
--George W. Bush, on Oprah, Sept. 19, 2000
"I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong."
--George W. Bush, in the New York Times, March 15, 2000
"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question."
--George W. Bush,
in response to a question about whether he wished he could take back any of his answers in the first Bush-Gore debate, during the second such debate, in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2000
"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and
more of our imports come from overseas."
--George W. Bush,
in Beaverton, Ore., Sep. 25, 2000
"We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile."
--George W. Bush, in Des Moines, Aug. 21, 2000
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
--George W. Bush,
in Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
"We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans."
--George W. Bush, in Scranton, Pa., Sept. 6, 2000
"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 -- federal cufflink."
--George W. Bush,
at Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, WI, March 30, 2000
"However they delineate, quotas, I think, vulcanize society."
--George W. Bush,
Jan. 21, 2000
"State law reigns supreme when it comes to the Indians, whether it be gambling or any other issue."
--George W. Bush,
in the Syracuse NY Post-Standard. Actually, treaties with the federal government reign supreme in matters concerning Indian nations.
"[If I didn't want to win,] why the heck am I on the bus 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving hundreds of speeches, getting pillared in the press and cartoons?"
--George W. Bush,
in Newsweek, Feb. 28, 2000
"That's Adam Clymer, a major league asshole from the New York Times."
--George W. Bush, in Naperville, Sept. 4, 2000
"[Being a uniter, not a divider] means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up."
--George W. Bush, on Late Night with David Letterman, March 1, 2000.
Letterman had recently resumed hosting his television show after having undergone open-heart surgery. The audience booed this weird attempt at humor.
"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods."
--George W. Bush, in Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
"There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, fool me once, shame on—shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again."
—- George W. Bush, in Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
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