Mr. Bush accepting the Peace Award..Choose the one you like and imagine repeating it accepting the award;
* "I wish you'd have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it...I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the
midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with answer, but it hadn't yet...I don't want to sound like I have made
no mistakes. I'm confident I have. I just haven't -- you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in
coming up with one." --after being asked to name the biggest mistake he had made, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2004
* "I'm oftentimes asked, What difference does it make to America if people are dying of malaria in a place like Ghana? It means a lot. It means a
lot morally, it means a lot from a -- it's in our national interest." --George W. Bush, Accra, Ghana, Feb. 20, 2008
* "I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." --Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008
* "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." --Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
* "Let me start off by saying that in 2000 I said, 'Vote for me. I'm an agent of change.' In 2004, I said, 'I'm not interested in change --I
want to continue as president.' Every candidate has got to say 'change.' That's what the American people expect." --George W. Bush, Washington,
D.C., March 5, 2008
* "I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here." --at the President's Economic Forum in Waco, Texas, Aug.
13, 2002
* "Oftentimes people ask me, 'Why is it that you're so focused on helping the hungry and diseased in strange parts of the world?'" --George W.
Bush, Washington, D.C., April 18, 2008
* "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." --George W. Bush, Mesa, Arizona, May 27, 2008
* "There's no question this is a major human disaster that requires a strong response from the Chinese government, which is what they're providing,
but it also responds a compassionate response from nations to whom -- that have got the blessings, good blessings of life, and that's us." --George
W. Bush, on relief efforts after a Chinese earthquake, Washington, D.C., June 6, 2008
* "Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy." -- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 2, 2008
* "I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C.,
June 26, 2008
* "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter." --George W. Bush, in parting words to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President
Nicolas Sarkozy at his final G-8 Summit, punching the air and grinning widely as the two leaders looked on in shock, Rusutsu, Japan, July 10, 2008
* "I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand -- but the president doesn't have a magic wand.
You just can't say, 'low gas.'" --George W. Bush, Washington D.C., July 15, 2008
* "Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that." --George W. Bush,
Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2008
* "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." --Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000
* "I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of Defense." --Washington, D.C.
April 18, 2006
* "You work three jobs? ... Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." --to a divorced mother of three,
Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005
* "We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease." --Gothenburg, Sweden, June
14, 2001
* "I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport." --Washington, D.C.,
Oct. 3, 2001
* "Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I mean, you're a -- you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And
therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities." --Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004
* "You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." --interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006
* "The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th." --Washington, D.C., July
12, 2007
* "I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being
president." --as quoted in Bob Woodward's Bush at War
* "Do you have blacks, too?" --to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001
* This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating." --as quoted by the New York Daily News, April 23, 2002
* "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." --Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000
* "I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass in my lake." --on his best moment in office, interview with the
German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, May 7, 2006
* "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." --Philadelphia, Penn., May 14, 2001
* "I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe -- I believe what I believe is right." --Rome, Italy, July
22, 2001
* "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the
propaganda." --Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005
* "People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house
and say I love you." --Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002
* "I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." --Washington, D.C. June 18, 2002
Enjoy'
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Cut and paste quotes? Very inventive. Let's see what Obama has said in the past, shall we?
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"It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I
don't know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing." --confusing German for "Austrian," a language which does not exist, Strasbourg,
France, April 6, 2009
"No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." --making an off-hand joke during an
appearance on "The Tonight Show", March 19, 2009 (Obama later called the head of the Special Olympics to apologize)
"I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances." --after saying he had spoken with all the living presidents as he
prepared to take office, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 2008 (Obama later called Nancy Reagan to apologize)
"I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." -- defending his tax plan to Joe the Plumber, who argued that Obama's policy
hurts small-business owners like himself, Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2008
"What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith..." --in an interview with ABC's George
Stephanopoulos, who jumped in to correct Obama by saying "your Christian faith," which Obama quickly clarified (Watch video clip)
"Let me introduce to you the next President -- the next Vice President of the United States of America, Joe Biden." --slipping up while introducing
Joe Biden at their first joint campaign rally, Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 23, 2008
"Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee -- which is my committee -- a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way
of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon." --referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel, July 23,
2008
"Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...administration. It will
be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change." --Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008
"How's it going, Sunshine?" --campaigning in Sunrise, Florida
"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of
patriotism is particularly strong."
"Hold on one second, sweetie, we're going to do -- we'll do a press avail." --to a female reporter for ABC's Detroit affiliate who asked about
his plan to help American autoworkers (Watch video clip)
"I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." --at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon (Watch video clip)
"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment
or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." --explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters
"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees
somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred in our experiences that don't go away and that
sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."
"Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions." --exasperated by reporters after a news conference
"You're likeable enough, Hillary." --during a Democratic debate
"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." --on a Kansas tornado that
killed 12 people
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