re: you guys said his religion is dominating his policies and you only have one debatable thing.
"I feel like God wants me to run for President. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen... I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it."
--George W. Bush commenting to Texas evangelist James Robinson in the run-up to his presidential campaign
"What we are going to do in the second term is to make sure that the grant money is available for faith communities to bid on, to make sure these faith-based offices are staffed and open. But the key thing is, is that we do have the capacity to allow faith programs to access enormous sums of social service money, which I think is important."
--George W. Bush, January 11, 2005
"God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [Hussein], which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."
--Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Abu Mazen quoting Bush when they met in Aqaba; reported in The Haaretz Reporter by Arnon Regular
And some other quotes for the hell of it:
"There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it." - Jan. 31, 2001
"I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well." - Jan. 29, 2001
"My pro-life position is I believe there's life. It's not necessarily based in religion. I think there's a life there, therefore the notion of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness." - Jan. 23, 2001
"Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment." - Jan. 14, 2001
"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." - Jan. 14, 2001
"I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure." - Jan. 18, 2001
"If he's—the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a—is a noble institution I would—I would strongly reject that assumption—that John Ashcroft is a open-minded, inclusive person." - Jan. 14, 2001
"She's just trying to make sure Anthony gets a good meal—Antonio."—On Laura Bush inviting Justice Antonin Scalia to dinner at the White House. - Jan. 14, 2001
"I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them." - Dec. 18, 2000
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program." - Nov. 2, 2000
"I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children." - Oct. 11, 2000
"I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes." - Aug. 21, 2000
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." - Sep. 29, 2000
"I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy." - Sep. 27, 2000
"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun."
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." - Oct. 18, 2000
"The woman who knew that I had dyslexia--I never interviewed her." - Sept. 15, 2000
"We cannot let terriers and rogue nations hold this nation hostile" - Sep. 9, 2000
"If most of the breaks go to wealthy people it's because most of the people who pay taxes are wealthy."
"I don't need to be subliminabable" - Sep. 12, 2000 |
