iamnotincompliance said:
So, Iron Ninja wants thoughts on his quotes, eh? Very well... where'd you get them, because I'm pretty sure several of those are actually Dan Quayle's. Not that that's a bad thing, on the contrary, Quayle is just as excellent as Bush is. Both Bushes, in fact. Hell, just look up quotes for all three of them: they're inadvertently hilarious all around.
Damnit you're right. That's what I get for trusting the internet I guess.
I'll list a few quotes officially atributed to bush then...
"I would still invade Iraq even if Iraq never existed."
"You can't read a newspaper if you can't read."
"This thaw took a while to thaw, it's going to take a while to unthaw."
"There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk, that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras. It got drunk and now it's got a hangover. The question is how long will it sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments."
"And they have no disregard for human life." (regarding Afghan Fighters)
"Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have helped transform 13 small colonies into a great and growing nation of more than 300 people."
"Your eminence, you're looking good." (to the pope, "your eminence" is the term for cardinals, the pope is supposed to be called "your holiness")
"The German asparagus are fabulous."
"We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood."
"Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy."
"And so the fact that they purchased the machine meant somebody had to make the machine. And when somebody makes a machine, it means there's jobs at the machine-making place."
"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."
"How can you possibly have an international agreement that's effective unless countries like China and India are not full participants?"
"Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that."
"There is no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say: Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world."
"I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it."
"We're going to, we'll be sending a person on the ground there pretty soon to help implement the malaria initiative, and that initiative will mean spreading nets and insecticides throughout the country so that we can see a reduction in death of young children that, a death that we can cure."
"All I can tell you is when the governor calls, I answer his phone."
"I fully understand those who say you can't win this thing militarily. That's exactly what the United States military says, that you can't win this military."
I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, 'Mr. President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'"
"I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas."
"As John Howard accurately noted when he went to thank the Austrian troops there last year..." (John Howard was the Prime minister of Australia at the time)
I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count, as president."
The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th."
"More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way."
"I've heard he's been called Bush's poodle. He's bigger than that." (on Tony Blair)
"Amnesty means that you've got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that."
All right that's probably enough.