Subject: Bushisms (Page 17)

I listen carefully to their advice; but having gathered the device [sic], I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'

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Oftentimes, we live in a processed world, you know, people focus on the process and not results.

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I think the American people – I hope the American – I don't think, let me – I hope the American people trust me.

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I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be—hold hands.

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One has a stronger hand when there's more people playing your same cards.

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I also understand how tender the free enterprise system can be.

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We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.

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We're fixing to go down to Galveston and obviously are going to see a devastated part of this fantastic state.

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You see, the Senate wants to take away some of the powers of the administrative branch.

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I’m also not very analytical. You know I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.

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It's going to require numerous IRA agents.

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And I look forward to working with Congress. As you know, appropriators are appropriators. They live up to their name, whether they be Republicans or Democrats. They like to appropriate. And our jobs as chief executives is to make sure they appropriate within reasonable levels.

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Governor Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.

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I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.

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Your eminence, you're looking good.

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The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein beause of the nature of Saddam Hussein, his history and his willingness to terrorize himself.

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I've heard he's been called Bush's poodle… he's bigger than that.

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Many Americans have got debts; we want those Americans to be able to pay off that debts.

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Then you wake up at the high school level and find out that the illiteracy level of our children are appalling.

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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.

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We’ve had a great weekend here in the Land of the Enchanted.

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