Okay, just when you’ve seen all the widely circulated, stupefying Bush quotes, along comes a batch that makes a strong case for running on an illiteracy platform....
"Anyway, I'm so thankful, and so gracious - I'm gracious that my brother
Jeb is concerned about the hemisphere as well." -George W. Bush, June 4, 2001
"It's important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to
understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots." -George W.
Bush, in remarks to the University of Nebraska women's volleyball team,
the 2001 national champions, May 31, 2001
"So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve
something greater than themselves, congratulations." -George W. Bush, in
remarks to the University of Nebraska women's volleyball team, the 2001
national champions, May 31, 2001
"If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to
have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all." -George W. Bush,
May 22, 2001
"For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings.
And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're
going to do something about it." -George W. Bush, May 14
"There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on
the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead." -George W. Bush, May 11, 2001
"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." -George W. Bush, May 1, 2001
"First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified,
nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country." -George W. Bush, on the
Kyoto accord, April 24, 2001
"It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade,
there's more commerce." -George W. Bush, at the Summit of the Americas in
Quebec City, April 21, 2001
"Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican." -George W. Bush,
declining to take reporters' questions during a photo op with Canadian Prime
Minister Jean Chretien, April 21, 2001
It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing
and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for
their children." -George W. Bush, on "parental empowerment in education,"
April 12, 2001
"I think we're making progress. We understand where the power of this
country lay. It lays in the hearts and souls of Americans. It must lay in our
pocketbooks. It lays in the willingness for people to work hard. But as
importantly, it lays in the fact that we've got citizens from all walks of
life, all political parties, that are willing to say, I want to love my
neighbor. I want to make somebody's life just a little bit
better." -George W.
Bush, April 11, 2001
"This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an
efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to
an end." -George W. Bush, April 10, 2001
"It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge). I think it's a mistake not to. And I would urge you all to travel up there
and take a look at it, and you can make the determination as to how beautiful that
country is." -George W. Bush, at a White House Press conference, March 29, 2001
"I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically." -George
W. Bush, speaking at the Radio & Television Correspondents dinner, March 29, 2001
"A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts
are that thousands of small businesses - Hispanically owned or otherwise - pay
taxes at the highest marginal rate." -George W. Bush, speaking to the
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, March 19, 2001
"But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are
not very transparent, that hide behind the-that don't let people in to take a
look and see what they're up to. They're very kind of authoritarian regimes.
The true threat is whether or not one of these people decide, peak of
anger, try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom
we'll defend, offer our defenses; the South Koreans." -George W. Bush, in a
media roundtable discussion, March 13, 2001
"I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That's an
important part of building morale in the military." -George W. Bush,
speaking at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, March 12, 2001
"I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same
questions: How'd your meeting go with so-and-so? How did you feel when
you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address-state of the
budget address, whatever you call it." -George W. Bush, in an interview with
the Washington Post, March 9, 2001
"Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets
must be open." -George W. Bush, at the swearing-in ceremony for Secretary of
Agriculture Ann Veneman, March 2, 2001
"My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt." -George
W. Bush, in his budget address to Congress, Feb. 27, 2001
"I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant
that they weren't very effective." -George W. Bush, during a White House press
conference, Feb. 22, 2001
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy
test.'' -George W. Bush, Feb. 21, 2001
"It's good to see so many friends here in the Rose Garden. This is our
first event in this beautiful spot, and it's appropriate we talk about policy
that will affect people's lives in a positive way in such a beautiful,
beautiful part of our national - really, our national park system, my guess is you
would want to call it."-George W. Bush, Feb. 8, 2001
"We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House - make no mistake about
it." -George W. Bush, Feb. 7, 2001
"There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll
never see it." -George W. Bush, speaking to Catholic leaders at the White House,
Jan. 31, 2001
"I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a
lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge
between church and state." -George W. Bush, speaking to reporters,
Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2001
"I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for
predecessors as well." -George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2001
"Then I went for a run with the other dog and just walked. And I started
thinking about a lot of things. I was able to - I can't remember what it
was. Oh, the inaugural speech, started thinking through that." -George W.
Bush, in a pre-inaugural interview with U.S. News & World Report
"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."
-George W. Bush, Jan. 2001
"I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously.
But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with
success as opposed to failure." -George W. Bush, Jan. 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."
-George W. Bush, Jan. 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."-George W. Bush, Jan. 2001
"She's just trying to make sure Anthony gets a good meal -
Antonio." -George W. Bush, on Laura Bush inviting Justice Antonin Scalia to dinner at the White
House, Jan. 2001
"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 more
literate country and a hopefuller country." -George W. Bush, Jan. 2001 |
