Subject: Bushisms (Page 6)

Now, we talked to Joan Hanover. She and her husband, George, were visiting with us. They are near retirement – retiring – in the process of retiring, meaning they're very smart, active, capable people who are retirement age and are retiring.

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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.

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I'm so pleased to be able to say hello to Bill Scranton; he's one of the great Pennsylvania political families.

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We've had leaks out of the administrative branch, had leaks out of the legislative branch, and out of the executive branch and the legislative branch, and I've spoken out consistently against them, and I want to know who the leakers are.

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Can't living with the bill means it won't become law.

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As Luce reminded me, he said, without data, without facts, without information, the discussions about public education mean that a person is just another opinion.

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I want to thank General John Fryer, the Superintendent of Schools here. I thought it was pretty interesting, when I was reading the background of the schools here, I see that you got you a general running the school system.

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

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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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So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression.

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I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family; that's an important part of building morale in the military.

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy but that could change.

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The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur.

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Listen, I want to thank leaders of the – in the faith – faith – based and community – based community for being here.

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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

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I understand small business growth… I was one.

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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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That's why we are inconveniencing air traffickers, to make sure nobody is carrying weapons on airplanes.

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Arbolist… look up the word; I don't know, maybe I made it up… anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.

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There may be some tough times here in America, but this country has gone through tough times before, and we're going to do it again.

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Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he’s a pretty good actor, too.

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