"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
"This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases."
"Unfairly but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against things. Anti-immigrant, for example. And we're not a party of anti-immigrants. Quite the opposite. We're a party that welcomes people."
"The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty ... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas."
"I'm gonna talk about the ideal world, Chris. I've read—I understand reality. If you're asking me as the president, would I understand reality, I do."—On abortion.
"There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me."—On the coming Social Security crisis.
"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating."
"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."
"This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past. In the past we were certain, we were certain it was us versus the Russians in the past. We were certain, and therefore we had huge nuclear arsenals aimed at each other to keep the peace. That's what we were certain of. ... You see, even though it's an uncertain world, we're certain of some things. We're certain that even though the 'evil empire' may have passed, evil still remains. We're certain there are people that can't stand what America stands for. ... We're certain there are madmen in this world, and there's terror, and there's missiles and I'm certain of this, too: I'm certain to maintain the peace, we better have a military of high morale, and I'm certain that under this administration, morale in the military is dangerously low."—Albuquerque, N.M., the Washington Post, May 31, 2000
"He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to be."—On Rudy Giuliani.
"The fact that he relies on facts—says things that are not factual—are going to undermine his campaign."—New York Times, March 4, 2000 (Thanks to Garry Trudeau.)
"I think we agree, the past is over."—On his meeting with John McCain.
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
GOV. BUSH: Because the picture on the newspaper.
It just seems so un-American to me, the picture of the guy storming the
house with a scared little boy there. I talked to my little brother, Jeb—I
haven't told this to many people. But he's the governor of—I shouldn't
call him my little brother--my brother, Jeb, the great governor of Texas.
JIM LEHRER: Florida.
GOV. BUSH: Florida. The state of the Florida.
"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."
"People make suggestions on what to say all the
time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People
say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're
changed. Trust me."
"It's evolutionary, going from governor to president, and this is a significant step, to be able to vote for yourself on the ballot, and I'll be able to do so next fall, I hope."
"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature.''
"I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university."
"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."
"Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really pleased with the organization and the thousands of South Carolinians that worked on my behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled."
"I don't want to win? If that were the case 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 and still staying on message to win?"
"I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists."—ibid.
"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."
"I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to attract votes and to lead people toward a better tomorrow somehow I get subscribed to some—some doctrine gets subscribed to me."
"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."
"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."
"What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.''
"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were," he said. "It was us vs. them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there."
"The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women who are focused on what's best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house."
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mential losses."—At a South Carolina oyster roast.
"I read the newspaper."—In answer to a question
about his reading habits.
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