Bush

[_F7_]

Let's not forget some of the beauties our current president has uttered:

"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, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

"There's no cave deep enough for America, or dark enough to hide." -George W. Bush, Oklahoma City, Aug. 29, 2002

"I'm a patient man. And when I say I'm a patient man, I mean I'm a patient man. Nothing he [Saddam Hussein] has done has convinced me - I'm confident the Secretary of Defense - that he is the kind of fellow that is willing to forgo weapons of mass destruction, is willing to be a peaceful neighbor, that is - will honor the people - the Iraqi people of all stripes, will - values human life. He hasn't convinced me, nor has he convinced my administration." -George W. Bush, Crawford, Texas, Aug. 21, 2002

"The federal government and the state government must not fear programs who change lives, but must welcome those faith-based programs for the embetterment of mankind." -George W. Bush, Stockton, Calif., Aug. 23, 2002

"The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur." -George W. Bush, discussing the decline of the French economy with British Prime Minister Tony Blair

"Over 75 percent of white Americans own their home, and less than 50 percent of Hispanos and African Americans don't own their home. And that's a gap, that's a homeownership gap. And we've got to do something about it." -George W. Bush, Cleveland, Ohio, July 1, 2002

"Do you have blacks, too?" -George W. Bush, to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Nov. 8, 2001, as reported in an April 28, 2002, Estado Sao Pauloan column by Fernando Pedreira, a close friend of President Cardoso

"We hold dear what our Declaration of Independence says, that all have got uninalienable rights, endowed by a Creator." -George W. Bush, to community and religious leaders in Moscow, May 24, 2002

"This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating." -George W. Bush, as quoted by the New York Daily News, April 23, 2002

"And so, in my State of the - my State of the Union - or state - my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation - I asked Americans to give 4,000 years - 4,000 hours over the next - the rest of your life - of service to America. That's what I asked - 4,000 hours." -George W. Bush, Bridgeport, Conn., April 9, 2002

"Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.'" -George W. Bush, in a speech about childhood education, Washington, D.C., April 2, 2002

"There's nothing more deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist. That's the most deep thought of all. ... I can't think of anything more deep than that right." -George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002

"My trip to Asia begins here in Japan for an important reason. It begins here because for a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times. From that alliance has come an era of peace in the Pacific." -George W. Bush, who apparently forgot about a little something called World War II, Tokyo, Feb. 18, 2002

"He [Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi] said I want to make it very clear to you exactly what I intend to do and he talked about non-performing loans, the devaluation issue and regulatory reform and he placed equal emphasis on all three." -George W. Bush, who had meant to say "the deflation issue" rather than "the devaluation issue," and accidentally sent the Japanese Yen tumbling, Tokyo, Feb. 18, 2002

"I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah." -George W. Bush, at a White House Menorah lighting ceremony, Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2001

"The folks who conducted to act on our country on September 11th made a big mistake. They underestimated America. They underestimated our resolve, our determination, our love for freedom. They misunderestimated the fact that we love a neighbor in need. They misunderestimated the compassion of our country. I think they misunderestimated the will and determination of the Commander-in-Chief, too." -George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 26, 2001

"My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the - in the Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen." -George W. Bush, Crawford, Texas, Aug, 13, 2001

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it." -George W. Bush, July 27, 2001

"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." -George W. Bush, May 14

"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

"It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge). I think it's a mistake not to. And I would urge you all to travel up there and take a look at it, and you can make the determination as to how beautiful that country is." -George W. Bush, at a White House Press conference, March 29, 2001

"A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses - Hispanically owned or otherwise - pay taxes at the highest marginal rate." -George W. Bush, speaking to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, March 19, 2001

"I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge between church and state." -George W. Bush, speaking to reporters, Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2001

"I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well." -George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2001

"I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure." -George W. Bush, Jan. 18, 2001

"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants." -George W. Bush, Jan. 14, 2001

"If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly reject that assumption - that John Ashcroft is a open-minded, inclusive person."-George W. Bush, Jan. 14, 2001

"I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy on teaching children to read and having an education system that's responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, will make America what we want it to be - a more literate country and a hopefuller country." -George W. Bush, Jan. 11, 2001

"I do remain confident in Linda. She'll make a fine labor secretary. From what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly qualified." -George W. Bush, commenting on Linda Chavez, Jan. 8, 2001

"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier - so long as I'm the dictator." -George W. Bush, Dec. 19, 2000

"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law." -George W. Bush, Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000. Or that
could be the judiciary; at least that's what the Consititution says.

"If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!" -George W. Bush, Bellevue Community College, Nov. 2, 2000

"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program." -George W. Bush, Nov. 2, 2000

"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." -George W. Bush, Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000

"I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children." -George W. Bush, second presidential debate, Oct. 11, 2000

"Our priorities is our faith." -George W. Bush, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." -George W. Bush, Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000

"I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy." -George W. Bush, Redwood, Calif., Sept. 27, 2000

"The woman who knew that I had dyslexia - I never interviewed her." -George W. Bush, responding to a magazine article claiming he suffered from dyslexia, Orange, Calif., Sept. 15, 2000

"They have miscalculated me as a leader." -George W. Bush, Westminster, Calif., Sept. 13, 2000

"Actually, I - this may sound a little West Texas 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." -George W. Bush, Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." -George W. Bush, Reuters, May 5, 2000

"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." -George W. Bush, in Los Angeles as quoted by the Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000

"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature.'' -George W. Bush, Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000

"We ought to make the pie higher." -George W. Bush, South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000

[_F7_]

"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case." -George W. Bush, Pella, Iowa, as quoted by the San Antonio Express-News, Jan. 30, 2000

"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" -George W. Bush, 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." -George W. Bush, speaking during "Perseverance Month" at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, New Hampshire, Jan. 28, 2000

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." -George W. Bush, Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000

"Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" -George W. Bush, Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

"If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow." -George W. Bush, Jan. 2000

"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures." -George W. Bush

[CJHobbes]

Great quote F7! lol, I almost fell out of my chair on a few of them.

My fav. all time has to be from Dan Quail a few years back during Bush's dad's time of presidency. I need to paraphrase it, because I can't remember the EXACT quote, but it's something like this: "We must construct ant-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in Red Storm Rising."

[[pepe]]

yeah he's horrible, I noticed he always stutters. Clinton was a very good speaker. better pres., he'd be a fun dictator.

hed have the playboy college edition chicks intern at the white house in a second. hef would be his V.P.

[Q-La]

Originally posted by _F7_
"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants." -George W. Bush, Jan. 14, 2001

He's a Zen master

http://www.bighairypalm.com/bushionary.html
^Check this out

The world's watching

[The_Stranger]

Enjoy the wisdom of the President throughout the year!

http://www.bushcalendar.com/

[Kindness]

Originally posted by _F7_
"The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur." -George W. Bush, discussing the decline of the French economy with British Prime Minister Tony Blair

I recognized this one as a joke I had received through the e-mail. But, did you know that snopes.com has heard it, too.

Excerpted from French Lesson by Barbara "ears of corn" Mikkelson
Yet another "George W. Bush is dumb" story has been taken up by those who like their caricatures drawn in stark, bold lines.

Far be it from me to defend Bush's intelligence or his command of the Englsh language, or lack thereof, but, I do feel compelled to observe that Tony Blair denies that this episode ever occurred.

[Nimda]

Originally posted by [pepe]
yeah he's horrible, I noticed he always stutters. Clinton was a very good speaker. better pres., he'd be a fun dictator.

hed have the playboy college edition chicks intern at the white house in a second. hef would be his V.P.

WTF? Clinton a better pres just cause he was a better speaker? Being a good public speaker is not what you vote for or support. I thought Clinton was terrible - he just looked good sometimes (cause Hillary helped him limp along). Crap - he was even given credit to helping the economy, when in reality it was Bush Sr. that did that - just takes a few years for it to show, which happened to be beginning of Clinton's term. I'd better stop... Could go on forever and refuse to! Bush had my Florida vote

[OshadowO]

LMAFAO.
Man I got to print out a few of those and post them in my studio, most of us (college kida ya know) here hate the guy and will get a kick out of it. Thanks dude.

[Lord_Simeon]

LOL

I wish our PM was as funny as your president, he tries, but hes not in the same league....

[Exeunt]

[Kindness]

lol

lmao Exeunt...

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."

[blito3]

"The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur."
"Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?"
thats what i like about your president.
all we got is a corrupt primeminister.

[RedMag*]

Sweet pic Exeunt