• "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - spoken at a White House bill signing; August 5, 2004
• "I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating." - as quoted in U.S. News & World Report; April 3, 2000
• "I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically." - Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner; Washington, D.C.; March 29, 2001
• "Rarely is the question asked; Is our children learning?" - Florence, South Carolina; January 11, 2000
• "The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants." - interview with the New York Times; January 14, 2001
• "Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness." - CNN online chat; August 30, 2000
• "If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders." - St. Louis; October 18, 2000
• "Neither in French nor English nor in Mexican." - declining to answer reporters' questions at the Summit of the Americas; Quebec City, Canada; April 21, 2001
• "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." - Townsend, Tennessee; February 21, 2001
• "One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures." - U.S. News & World Report; January 3, 2000
• "You might want to comment on that, Honorable." - to New Jersey's secretary of state, the Honorable DeForest Soaries Jr.; as quoted in the Washington Post; July 15, 2000
• "Actually, I - this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me." - Hardball with Chris Matthews; May 31, 2000
• "I understand small business growth. I was one." - New York Daily News; February 19, 2000
• "They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program." - St. Charles, Missouri; November 2, 2000
• "First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country." - on the U.S. withdrawl from the Kyoto accord; in an interview with the Washington Post; April 24, 2001
• "Do you have blacks, too?" - to Brazillian president Fernando Cardoso; Washington, D.C.; November 8, 2001
• "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." - LaCrosse, Wisconsin; October 18, 2000
• "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." - Washington, D.C.; May 1, 2001
• "The public education system in America is one of the most important foundations of our democracy. After all, it is where children from all over America learn to be responsible citizens, and learn to have the skills necessary to take advantage of our opportunistic society." - Santa Clara, California; May 1, 2002
• "This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating." - as quoted by the New York Daily News; April 23, 2002
• "I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question." - in response to a question about whether he wished he could take back any of his answers in the first debate; Reynoldsburg, Ohio; October 4, 2000
• "Our nation must come together to unite." - Tampa, Florida; June 4, 2001
• "I understand that the unrest in the Middle East creates unrest throughout the region." - Washington, D.C.; March 13, 2002
• "There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it." - to Catholic leaders at the White House; January 31, 2001
• "They misunderestimated me." - Bentonville, Arkansas; November 6, 2000
• "There's no cave deep enough for America, or dark enough to hide." - Oklahoma City; August 29, 2002
• "After all, a week ago, there were - Yasser Arafat was boarded up in his building in Ramallah, a building full of, evidently, German peace protestors and all kinds of people. They're now out. He's now free to show leadership, to lead the world." - Washington, D.C.; May 2, 2002
• "For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times." - Tokyo, Japan; February 18, 2002
• It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature." - Los Angeles; February 23, 2000
• "You see, the Senate wants to take away some of the powers of the administrative branch." - Washintgon, D.C. - September 19, 2002
• "I read the newspaper." - in answer to a question about his reading habits; New Hampshire Republican debate; December 2, 1999
• "They said, 'You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the people.' And I said, 'You know something? Whether it resignates or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work'" - Portland, Oregon; October 31, 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; January 30, 2000
• "I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well." - Washington, D.C.; January 29, 2001
• "The trial lawyers are very politically powerful... but here in Texas we took them on and got some good medical - medical malpractice." - Waco, Texas; August 13, 2002
• "My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the - in the Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen." - Crawford, Texas; August 13, 2001
• "It's going to require numerous IRA agents." - commenting on Al Gore's tax plan; Greensboro, North Carolina; October 10, 2000
• "Governor Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure." - Florence, South Carolina; January 11, 2000
• "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were... It was us vs. them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who they are, but we know they're there." - Iowa Western Community College; January 21, 2000
• "And there's no doubt in my mind, not one doubt in my mind, that we will fail." - Washington, D.C.; October 4, 2001
• "There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again." - Nashville, Tennessee; September 17, 2002
• "I think the American people - I hope the American - I don't think, let me - I hope the American people trust me." - Washington, D.C.; December 18, 2002
• "Anyway, after we go out and work our hearts out, after you go out and help us turn out the vote, after we've convinced the good Americans to vote, and while they're at it, pull that old George W. lever, if I'm the one, when I put my hand on the Bible, when I put my hand on the Bible, that day when they swear us in, when I put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not - to uphold the laws of the land." - Toledo, Ohio; October 27, 2000
• "Governor, thank you very much. I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport." - Arlington, Virginia; October 2, 2001
• "There was no malfeance involved. This was an honest disagreement about accounting procedures... There was no malfeance, no attempt to hide anything." - Washington, D.C.; July 8, 2002
• "The United States and Russia are in the midst of a transformationed relationship that will yield peace and progress." - Washington, D.C.; November 13, 2001
• "Many Americans have got debts. We want those Americans to be able to pay off that debts." - Crawford, Texas; January 6, 2001
• "She's just trying to make sure Anthony gets a good meal - Antonio." - commenting on Laura Bush inviting U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia to dinner at the White House; NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw; January 14, 2001
• "In other words, I don't think people ought to be compelled to make the decision which they think is best for their family." - Washington, D.C.; December 11, 2002
• "I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun." - St. Louis; October 18, 2000
• "And so, in my State of the - my State of the Union - or state - my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation - I asked Americans to give 4,000 years - 4,000 hours over the next - the rest of your life - of service to America. That's what I asked - 4,000 hours." - Bridgeport, Connecticut; April 9, 2002
• "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 Financial Times; January 14, 2000
• "I was proud the other day when both Republicans and Democrats stood with me in the Rose Garden to announce their support for a clear statement of purpose: you disarm, or we will." - speaking about Saddam Hussein; Manchester, New Hampshire; October 5, 2002
• "The Bob Jones policy on interracial dating, I mean I spoke out on interracial dating. I spoke against that. I spoke out against interracial dating. I support the policy of interracial dating." - CBS News; February 25, 2000
• "I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy on teaching children to read and having an education system that's responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, will make America what we want it to be - a literate country and a hopefuller country." - Washington, D.C.; January 11, 2001
• "Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it." - St. Louis; October 18, 2000
• "A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness." - The Edge with Paula Zahn; September 18, 2000
• "The government is not the surplus's money, Vice President." - The Washington Post; November 5, 2000
• "Oftentimes what I try to say in Washington gets filtered and sometimes my words in Washington don't exactly translate directly to the people." - Kalamazoo, Michigan; March 27, 2001

(last updated August 8, 2004)

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