"There's
a lot of people in the Middle East who are
desirous to get into the Mitchell process. And.. but first things first. The..
these terrorist acts and, you know, the responses, have got to end in order for
us to get the framework.. the groundwork.. not framework, the groundwork to
discuss a framework for peace, to lay the.. all right." - 8/13/01
"The ground grounds me." - 8/13/01
"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." - 8/13/01
“It is white.” (when asked what the White House is like by a student at Morningside Primary School
in East London ) - 7/23/01
''I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what
I believe.. I believe what I believe is right." - 7/22/01
"The true greatness of America
are the people." - 7/2/01
(When asked what Independance Day meant to him on a visit to the Jefferson memorial): "It means what these words say,
for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We're blessed with
such values in America.
And I — it's — I'm a proud man to be the nation based upon such wonderful
values." - 7/2/01
"The best of America occurs when people walk up and say, Mr. President,
I'm praying for you." - 6/21/01
"I want to thank you for coming to the White House to give me an
opportunity to urge you to work with these five senators and three congressmen,
to work hard to get this trade promotion authority moving. The power that be,
well most of the power that be, sits right here." - 6/18/01
(When asked whether Poles might soon travel to the US
without visas): "Chicago
is a city with many many people of Polish heritage." - 6/15/01
"There's nothing more inspiring than instilling in people the will to do
away with leaders who were done away with decades ago. We can build an open
Europe -- a Europe without Hitler and Stalin,
without Brezhnev and Honecker and Ceaucescu and, yes, without Milosevic."
- 6/15/01 (Poland)
"Europe should have more countries."
- 6/14/01 (Sweden)
"We spent a lot of time talking about Africa,
as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers
from incredible disease." - 6/14/01 (Sweden)
"I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I
can live with if we don't." ... "Can't living with the bill means it
won't become law" - 6/13/01 (Belgium, regarding the patients'
bill of rights).
"Sometimes I catch some of those elected officials, maybe not saying
things about me that my mother would like to hear. But the tone is changing. It
is. We're working hard to change it." - 6/8/01
"Russia
is no longer our enemy and therefore we shouldn't be locked into a Cold War
mentality that says we keep the peace by blowing each other up. In my attitude,
that's old, that's tired, that's stale." - 6/8/01
"I'm gracious that my brother Jeb is concerned about the hemisphere as
well." - 6/4/01
"Our nation must come together to unite." - 6/4/01
From an
interview printed in The New York Times, 6/6/01:
Q. What do you find most frustrating about the job?
A. "That it's hard to run out of the White House and jog on the
mall."
Q. Have you ever done that?
A. "No. That's why I find it frustrating. I am not a frustrated person.
I'm content about the job, pleased with the progress we're making. You asked
about frustration. I am content."
"At
3:00 p.m., in every town and city, village and hamlet in America, Americans of
all walks of life are posing for a moment of silence." - 6/4/01 (make sure
your hair looks right!)
"It's important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs
to understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots." -
3/31/01 (to the University of Nebraska women's volleyball team)
"If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to
have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all." - 5/22/01
(to the Hispanic Scholarship Institute)
"The explorationists are willing to only move equipment during
the winter, which means they'll be on ice roads, and remove the equipment as
the ice begins to melt, so that the fragile tundra is protected." -
5/18/01
"To the C students, I say to you: you, too, can be president of the United
States.” - 5/21/01
"If you're like me you won't remember everything you did here" -
5/21/01 (commencement speech at Yale.)
"But I also made it clear to [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think
beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up,
the world would be safe." - 5/01/01
"Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself." - 4/25/01
"First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified,
nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country." (on the Kyoto
accord) - 4/24/01
"It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade,
there's more commerce." - 4/21/01
"Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican." (refusing to
answer reporters' questions at the Summit of the Americas) - 4/21/01
"We understand where the power of this country lay. It lays in the hearts
and souls of Americans. It must lay in our pocketbooks." - 4/11/01
We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end." -
4/10/01
"The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only
reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so that people who
build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next,
regardless of a person's race." - 4/5/01
"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." - 3/29/01
"Diseases...such as arthritis and osteoporosis can be less be-a,
be-a-dilatating." - 3/21/01
"There's money in the budget for Medicare.. it's a doubling." -
3/21/01
"If you set high expectations for every single child, good folks'll
follow." - 3/20/01
"We've got to end the process-oriented world of public schools." -
3/20/01
"One of the failures...I'm gonna...I won't call it
'failures'...efficiencies in our system--oftentimes our teachers are not taught
to teach a curriculum that works." - 3/20/01
"The role of government is to create an environment that encourages
Hispanic-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, anybody-kind-of-owned
businesses." - 3/19/01
"Our hemisphere, by the way, is not going to be an afterthought for this
administration." - 3/19/01
"...thousands of small businesses--Hispanically owned or otherwise, pay
taxes at the highest marginal rate." 3/19/01
"We need to change that attitude about how prolific we can be with the
people's money" - 3/16/01
"There are some monuments where the land is so widespread, they just
encompass as much as possible. And the integral part of the - the precious
part, so to speak, I guess all land is precious - but the part that the people
uniformly would not want to spoil, will not be despoiled. But there are parts
of the monument lands where we can explore without affecting the overall
environment." - 3/13/01
"That's uncredibly unfair"
"I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family." -
3/12/01
"I think there is some methodology in my travels." - 3/5/01
"A sure way to make sure this economy gets drug down is to
overspend". - 3/1/01
"Of all states that understands local control of schools, Iowa is such a
state." - 2/28/01
"Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the
heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is." - 2/28/01
"My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt." -
2/27/01
"Let the American people spend their OWN money to meet their OWN
needs." - 2/27/01
"I'm concerned about the amount of acreage in cultivation for the growth
of cocoa leaves" (defined: We must halt the trafficking in chocolate! Just
say no to cocoa! Leads to devil's food cake!) - 2/23/01
"I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese—that meant that
they weren't very effective." - 2/21/01
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass the
literary test" - 2/21/01
"There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll
never see it." - 1/31/01
"I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for
predecessors as well." - 1/29/01
"My pro-life position is I believe there's life. It's not necessarily
based in religion. I think there's a life there, therefore the notion of life,
liberty and pursuit of happiness." -1/23/01
"I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with
success as opposed to failure." - 1/18/01
"Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace
to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an
assignment." - 1/14/01
"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."
- 1/14/01
"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." - 1/14/01
"She's just trying to make sure Anthony gets a good meal—Antonio."—On
Laura Bush inviting Justice Antonin Scalia to dinner at the White House. -
1/14/01
"I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the
legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the
difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them."
- 12/18/00
"They misunderestimated me." - 11/6/00
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's
some kind of federal program." - 11/2/00
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." -
10/18/00
"I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling,
which is illiterate children." - 10/11/00
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." - 9/29/00
"I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy." - 9/27/00
"The woman who knew that I had dyslexia--I never interviewed her." -
9/15/00
"I don't need to be subliminabable" - 9/12/00
"We cannot let terriers and rogue nations hold this nation hostile" -
9/9/00
"I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it
goes." - 8/21/00
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" - 1/11/00
"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a
gun."
"If most of the breaks go to wealthy people it's because most of the
people who pay taxes are wealthy."
"I understand small business growth. I was one."
Bushisms are updated frequently. Check back for what will surely be many more
in the four excruciating years of his illegitimate residency.
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