Subject: Bushisms (Page 15)

We're also talking to different finance ministers about how we can send a message to the Iranian government that the free world is not going to tolerate the development of know-how in how to build a weapon, or at least gain the ability to make a weapon.

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I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.

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I’m for a stronger death penalty.

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More Muslims have died at the hands of killers than – I say more Muslims – a lot of Muslims have died – I don’t know the exact count – at Istanbul. Look at these different places around the world where there’s been tremendous death and destruction because killers kill.

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I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job.

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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.

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I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

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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.

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I don’t particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it.

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And I appreciate the fact that you really snatched defeat out of the jaws of those who are trying to defeat us in Iraq.

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It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

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This is historic times.

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The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.

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Success is not no violence.

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I'm sure you can imagine it's an unimaginable honor to live here.

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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.

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If you don’t stand for anything, you don’t stand for anything; if you don’t stand for something, you don’t stand for anything!

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I'm coming as the president of a friend, and I'm coming as a sportsman.

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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.

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Our priorities is our faith.

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I became totally inebriated with hitting the big one.

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