The Quotable George Dubya Bush
Can you believe that people actually voted
for this guy? Additional quotes will surely follow

• "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them and it was clear who them was. Today we are not so sure who they are, but we know they're there." - Dubha in Council Bluffs Iowa, on Jan. 21, 2000.
• "I propose that every city have a telephone number 119 - for dyslexics who have an emergency."
• "Some say give it [the Federal Budget Surplus] to the taxpayers who pay the bills. That some is George W. Bush" - Sioux City, Iowa, 1/22/00
• "Is Your Children Learning?" - Bush on Education, Jan. 2000
• "This is Preservation month. I appreciate preservation. This is what you do when you run for president. You've got to preserve." - Dubya to several hundred children at an elementary school that was celebrating Perseverance Month (not Preservation Month)
• "We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself." - New Hampshire, Jan. 2000
• "Tell them I have learned from mistakes I may or may not have made."
• "Just make sure you put in there, 'He was real tired too.'" - On the press reporting his verbal miscues
• "I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same questions: How'd that meeting go with so-and-so?...How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address-state of the budge address, whatever you call it." - Interview with Washington Post, March 9,2001
• "I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss Cheese-that meant that they weren't very effective." - White House Press Conference, Feb. 22, 2001
• "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." - Townsend, Tenn., Feb 21, 2001
• "Home is important. It is important to have a home." - Crawford, Texas, Feb. 18, 2001
• "The misunderestimated me." - Bentonville Ark., Nov. 6, 2001
• "Anyway, after we go out and work our hearts out, after you go out and help us turn out the vote, after we've convinced the good Americans to vote, and while they're at it, pull that old George W. lever, if I'm the one, when I put my hand on the Bible, when I put my hand on the Bible, that day when they swear us in, when I put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not - to uphold the laws of the land." - Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 27, 2000
• It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only the life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet." - Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000
• "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." - LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000
• "Our priorities is our faith." - Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000
• "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." - Saginaw Michigan, Sept. 29,2000
• "Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where I'm coming from." - Detroit, Sept. 7, 2000
• "We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers." - Houston, Texas, Sept. 6, 2000
• "And if he continues that, I'm going to tell the nation what I think of him as a human being, and a person." - On the Today show, Aug. 1, 2000
• "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're certain of...You see, even though its 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 the 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." - The Washington Post May 31,2000
• "I think we agree, the past is over." - Dallas Morning News, May 10,2000
• "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." - Reuters, May 5, 2000.
• 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 Florida." - The Newshour With Jim Lehrer April 27, 2000
• "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." - New York Times, March 15, 2000
• "I understand small business growth. I was one." - New York Daily News, Feb 19, 2000
• "Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" - Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000