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joether -> RE: Bush Memoir Release Has Republicans Concerned (7/29/2010 6:56:58 PM)
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From the book "The Ultimate George W. Bushiisms" by Jacob Weisberg, ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-5058-7
"I think it's really important for this great state of baseball to reach out to people of all walks of life to make sure that the sport is iclusive. The best way to do it is to convince little kids how to--the beauty of playing baseball." -Washinggton, D.C., Feb 13, 2006.
"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." --Washington, D.C. Dec 18, 2000
"You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war president. No president wants to be a war president, but I am one." - Des Moines, Iowa, Dec 26, 2006
"I mean, there was serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein, you're a threat. And the 9/11 attacks extenuated that threat." --Philadelphia, Dec 12, 2005
"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." --Interview with CBS News, Washington, D.C. Sept 6, 2006
"Iraq is a very important part of securing the homeland, and it's a very important part of helping change the Middle East into a part of the world that will not serve as a threat to the civilized world, to people like--or to the developed world, to people like--in the United States." --Washington, D.C., April 3, 2007 (WTF?)
"Make no mistake about it, I understand how tough it is, sir, I talk to families who die." --Speaking to reporters on facing the challenges of war, Washington, D.C., December 7, 2006
"I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a log of time thinking about myself, about why I do things." --Aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003
"Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission." --Washington, D.C. April 3, 2007
"If the Iranians were to have a nuclear weapon, they could proliferate." --Washington, D.C., March 21, 2006
"The only way we can win is to leave before the job is done." --Greely, CO, Nov 4, 2006
"You took an oath to defend our flag and our freedom, and you kept that oath underseas and under fire." --Addressing war veterans, Washington, D.C., Jan 10, 2006. (WTF?)
"That's George Washington, the first president, of course. The interesting thing about him is that I read three-- three or four books about him last year. Isn't that interesting?" --Showing German newspaper reporter Karl Kickmann the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006
"The question is, who ought to make that decision? The Congress or the commanders? And if you know, my position is clear--I'm a commander guy." --Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007
"I am to be a competitive nation." -- San Jose, CA, April 21, 2006
Oh, you guys will like this one...
"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet." --Arlington Heights, Illinois, Oct 24, 2000
And for our UK folks on here...
"You helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17--1976" --To Quenn Elizabeth, Washington, D.C. May 7, 2007
"Amnesty means that you've got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that." --Discussing an immigration reform bill, Washington, D.C. June 26, 2007
"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness." --CNN Online Chat, August 30, 2000
"I'm the master of low expectations." --Aboard Air force One, June 4, 2003
"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures." --U.S. News & World Report, Jan 3, 2000
"Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican." --Decling to answer reporters' questions at the Summit of the Americas, Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001 (Mexican is a language? Do those guys in Mexico know that?)
And by far the best Bushisms...
"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." --Washington, D.C., August 5, 2004
So, this idiot is 'writing' a book about his eight years as President?
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