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Lets look at some of his actual Quotes. You decide.
"The best way to relieve families from time is to let
them keep some of their own money."-Westminster, Calif.,
Sept. 13, 2000
"They have miscalculated me as a leader."-Ibid.
"I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences
between our views on prescription drugs."-Orlando, Fla.,
Sept. 12, 2000
"We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great
country called America will be the pacemakers."-Houston,
Texas/x, Sept. 6, 2000
"We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions
on behalf of Americans."-Scranton, Pa., Sept. 6, 2000
"I would have my secretary of treasury be in touch with
the financial centers, not only here but at home."-Boston,
Oct. 3, 2000 (Thanks to M. Bateman.)
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."-Saginaw,
Mich., Sept. 29, 2000
"I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy."-Redwood,
Calif., Sept. 27, 2000
"One of the common denominators I have found is that
expectations rise above that which is expected."-Los Angeles,
Sept. 27, 2000
"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil.
More and more of our imports come from overseas."-Beaverton,
Ore., Sep. 25, 2000
"Well, that's going to be up to the pundits and the people
to make up their mind. I'll tell you what is a president for him,
for example, talking about my record in the state of Texas/x.
I mean, he's willing to say anything in order to convince people
that I haven't had a good record in Texas/x."-MSNBC, Sept.
20, 2000 (Thanks to Gregory H. Monberg.)
"I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans."-Oprah,
Sept. 19, 2000
"A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out
of an economic illness."-The Edge With Paula Zahn,
Sept. 18, 2000
"The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about
what has come and is coming."-on his anti-Gore ad, in an
interview with the New York Times, Sept. 2, 2000
"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to
handle the job is underestimating."-U.S. News & World
Report, April 3, 2000
Bush: "First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence
day. That's dieciséis de Septiembre, and ..."
Matthews: "What's that in English?"
Bush: "Fifteenth of September." (Dieciséis
de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
-Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
"The only things that I can tell you is that every case
I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or
guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've
put a guilty ... I mean innocent person to death in the state
of Texas/x." All Things Considered, NPR, June 16,
2000
"I'm gonna talk about the ideal world, Chris. I've read-I
understand reality. If you're asking me as the president, would
I understand reality, I do."-On abortion, Hardball,
MSNBC; May 31, 2000
"The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful
president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until
I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that
I think I'll be more effective."-In Wayne, Mich., as quoted
by Katharine Q. Seelye in the New York Times, June 28,
2000
"And if he continues that, I'm going to tell the nation
what I think about him as a human being and a person."-President
George H.W. Bush, on the Today show, Aug. 1, 2000
"I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think
I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just
the way it goes."-Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 21, 2000
"This campaign not only hears the voices of the entrepreneurs
and the farmers and the entrepreneurs, we hear the voices of those
struggling to get ahead."-Ibid.
"We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this
nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.''-Ibid.
"As governor of Texas/x, I have set high standards for
our public schools, and I have met those standards."-CNN
online chat, Aug. 30, 2000
"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something
and don't do it, that's trustworthiness."-Ibid.
"He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic
mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's
a safer place for him to be."-On Rudy Giuliani, The Edge
With Paula Zahn, May 18, 2000
"The fact that he relies on facts-says things that are not
factual-are going to undermine his campaign."-New York
Times, March 4, 2000
"I think we agree, the past is over."-On his meeting
with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers
in it."--Reuters, May 5, 2000 (Thanks to Allison Fansler.)
GOV. BUSH: Because the picture on the newspaper. It just
seems so un-American to me, the picture of the guy storming the
house with a scared little boy there. I talked to my little brother,
Jeb--I haven't told this to many people. But he's the governor
of--I shouldn't call him my little brother--my brother, Jeb, the
great governor of Texas/x.
JIM LEHRER: Florida.
GOV. BUSH: Florida. The state of the Florida.--The NewsHour
With Jim Lehrer, April 27, 2000
"I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what
I'm interested to know."-On what happened in negotiations
between the Justice Department and Elián González's
Miami relatives, as quoted by the Associated Press, April 26,
2000 (Thanks to Saul Selzer.)
"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children
is sometimes until we get an objective analysis."--Meet
the Press, April 15, 2000
"You subscribe politics to it. I subscribe freedom
to it."-Responding to a question about whether he and Al
Gore were making the Elián González case a political
issue. In Palm Beach, Fla., as quoted by the Associated Press,
April 6, 2000 (Thanks to Helen Kennedy.)
"I was raised in the West. The west of Texas/x. It's
pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C.,
is close to California."-In Los Angeles as quoted by the
Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000
"Reading is the basics for all learning."-Announcing
his "Reading First" initiative in Reston, Va., March
28, 2000 (Thanks to Carl LaRocca.)
"We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet
the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to
know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure
there's not this kind of federal-federal cufflink."-At Fritsche
Middle School, Milwaukee, March 30, 2000
"Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks
and negative ads."-Fund-raising letter from George W. Bush,
quoted in the Washington Post, March 24, 2000
"I've got a reason for running. I talk about a larger
goal, which is to call upon the best of America. It's part of
the renewal. It's reform and renewal. Part of the renewal is a
set of high standards and to remind people that the greatness
of America really does depend on neighbors helping neighbors and
children finding mentors. I worry. I'm very worried about, you
know, the kid who just wonders whether America is meant for him.
I really worry about that. And uh, so, I'm running for a reason.
I'm answering this question here and the answer is, you cannot
lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind.
Revenge is so incredibly negative. And so to answer your question,
I'm going to win because people sense my heart, know my sense
of optimism and know where I want to lead the country. And I tease
people by saying, 'A leader, you can't say, follow me the world
is going to be worse.' I'm an optimistic person. I'm an inherently
content person. I've got a great sense of where I want to lead
and I'm comfortable with why I'm running. And, you know, the call
on that speech was, beware. This is going to be a tough campaign."-Interview
with the Washington Post, March 23, 2000
"People make suggestions on what to say all the time.
I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People
say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.'
They're changed. Trust me."-Interview with the New York
Times, March 15, 2000
"It's evolutionary, going from governor to president,
and this is a significant step, to be able to vote for yourself
on the ballot, and I'll be able to do so next fall, I hope."-In
an interview with the Associated Press, March 8, 2000 (Thanks
to Joshua Micah Marshall.)
"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that
is Clinton in nature.''-Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000
"I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying
to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I
reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university."-Today,
Feb. 23, 2000
"I understand small business growth. I was one."-New
York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000
"The senator has got to understand if he's going to
have-he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse
and then claim the low road."-To reporters in Florence, S.C.,
Feb. 17, 2000
"Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really
pleased with the organization and the thousands of South Carolinians
that worked on my behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled."-To
Cokie Roberts, This Week, Feb. 20, 2000
"I don't want to win? If that were the case why the heck
am I on the bus 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving
hundreds of speeches, getting pillared in the press and cartoons
and still staying on message to win?"-Newsweek, Feb. 28,
2000
"I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside
my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist
for cartoonists."-ibid.
"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism
and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."-Hilton
Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000
"How do you know if you don't measure if you have
a system that simply suckles kids through?"-Explaining the
need for educational accountability in Beaufort, S.C., Feb. 16,
2000
"We ought to make the pie higher."-South Carolina
Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000
"I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I
go to try to attract votes and to lead people toward a better
tomorrow somehow I get subscribed to some-some doctrine gets subscribed
to me."-Meet The Press, Feb. 13, 2000
"I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less-I
pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it from this
show. And I'm more interacting with people."-ibid
"I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth
to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth."-Nashua,
N.H., as quoted by Gail Collins in the New York Times, Feb.
1, 2000
"The most important job is not to be governor, or
first lady in my case."-Pella, Iowa, as quoted by the
San Antonio Express-News, Jan. 30, 2000
"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"-Concord,
N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation.
It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve."-Speaking
during "Perseverance Month" at Fairgrounds Elementary
School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times,
Jan. 28, 2000
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your
family."-Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan.
27, 2000
"What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas,
quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they
delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know
how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative
positions, but that's my position.''-Quoted by Molly Ivins, the
San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000 (Thanks to Toni L. Gould.)
"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and
you knew exactly who they were," he said. "It was us
vs. them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so
sure who the they are, but we know they're there."-Iowa Western
Community College, Jan 21, 2000
"The administration I'll bring is a group of men and
women who are focused on what's best for America, honest men and
women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our
country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house."-Des
Moines Register debate, Iowa, Jan. 15, 2000
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of
madmen and uncertainty and potential mential losses."-At
a South Carolina oyster roast, as quoted in the Financial
Times, Jan. 14, 2000
"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor
just like you like to be liked yourself."-ibid.
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"-Florence,
S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
"Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure."-ibid.
"There needs to be debates, like we're going through.
There needs to be town-hall meetings. There needs to be travel.
This is a huge country."-Larry King Live, Dec. 16, 1999
"I read the newspaper."-In answer to a question
about his reading habits, New Hampshire Republican Debate, Dec.
2, 1999
"I think it's important for those of us in a position
of responsibility to be firm in sharing our experiences, to understand
that the babies out of wedlock is a very difficult chore for mom
and baby alike. ... I believe we ought to say there is a different
alternative than the culture that is proposed by people like Miss
Wolf in society. ... And, you know, hopefully, condoms will work,
but it hasn't worked."-Meet the Press, Nov. 21, 1999
"The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds
and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them."-From
A Charge To Keep, by George W. Bush, published November 1999
"It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has
not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about
vice presidents."-Keene, N.H., Oct. 22, 1999, quoted in the
New Republic, Nov. 15, 1999
"The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?"-Answering
a question about why he hasn't spent more time in New Hampshire,
in the New York Times, Oct. 23, 1999
"I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent
a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember."-On
discussions of the Vietnam War when he was an undergraduate at
Yale, Washington Post, July 27, 1999
"The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned
first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas/x."-To
a Slovak journalist as quoted by Knight Ridder News Service, June
22, 1999. Bush's meeting was with Janez Drnovsek, the prime minister
of Slovenia.
"If the East Timorians decide to revolt, I'm sure I'll
have a statement."-Quoted by Maureen Dowd in the New York
Times, June 16, 1999
"Keep good relations with the Grecians."-Quoted
in the Economist, June 12, 1999
"Kosovians can move back in."-CNN Inside Politics,
April 9, 1999
"It was just inebriating what Midland was all about
then."-From a 1994 interview, as quoted in First Son,
by Bill Minutaglio
you be the judge
this guy makes Ronald Regan look
smart. if this doesn't scare you...........
Scary stuff.
