Subject: Bushisms (Page 20)

I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.

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I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same questions: how'd your 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 budget address, whatever you call it.

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So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, “Congratulations.”

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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 the pursuit of happiness.

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Quotas are bad for America; it's not the way America is all about.

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You helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17… 1976.

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I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town; and I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it.

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Oftentimes what I try to say in Washington gets filtered and sometimes my words in Washington don't exactly translate directly to the people.

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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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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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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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All I can tell you is when the governor calls, I answer his phone.

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More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way.

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This is my maiden voyage… my first speech since I was the president of the United States and I couldn't think of a better place to give it than Calgary, Canada.

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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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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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We are fully committed to working with both sides to bring the level of terror down to an acceptable level for both.

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This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin and in Leipzig. By the end of that year, every communist dictatorship in Central America had collapsed.

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And everybody wants to be loved – not everybody… you never heard anybody say, ‘I want to be despised, I’m running for office.’

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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 the they are, but we know they're there.

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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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