Subject: Bushisms (Page 9)

What I'm suggesting to you is, if you can't name the foreign minister of Mexico, therefore, you know, you're not capable of what you do.

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Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.

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I can assure you that, even though I won’t be sitting through every single moment of the seminars, nor will the vice president, we will look at the summaries.

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Anyone engaging in illegal financial transactions will be caught and persecuted.

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There’s no doubt in my mind that we should allow the world’s worst leaders to hold America hostage, to threaten our peace, to threaten our friends and allies with the world’s worst weapons.

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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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I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass in my lake.

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We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood.

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Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.’

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The great thing about America is everybody should vote.

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I love the idea of a school in which people come to get educated and stay in the state in which they're educated.

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I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

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I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically.

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It is white.

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A good marriage is really good after serving together in Washington, D.C.

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Governor Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.

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I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

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I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.

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I know something about being a government… and you've got a good one.

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Nothing he [Saddam Hussein] has done has convinced me – I'm confident the Secretary of Defense – that he is the kind of fellow that is willing to forgo weapons of mass destruction, is willing to be a peaceful neighbor, that is – will honor the people – the Iraqi people of all stripes, will – values human life.

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Investment means you're purchasing something, and somebody has to make that which you purchase and sell that which you purchase. And that's how the economy works.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president