GEOGRAPHY BUSHISM
"I was raised in the west. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California."
In Los Angeles as quoted by the Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000
HISTORY BUSHISM
"I think we agree, the past is over."
On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
ECONOMICS BUSHISM
"More and more of our imports come from overseas."
FISCAL LEADERSHIP BUSHISM
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."--Rueters, May 5, 2000
FOREIGN RELATIONS BUSHISM
"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 the they are, but we know they're there."
Iowa Western Community College, Jan 21, 2000
IMPROVING THE EDUCATION SYSTEM BUSHISM
"How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?"
Explaining the need for educational accountability in Beaufort, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000
ENERGY CRISIS BUSHISM
"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."
VOLUNTEERISM BUSHISM
"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."
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH BUSHISM
"It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber."
QUOTAS BUSHISM
"What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position."
POLITICAL MANUEVERING BUSHISM
"The senator has got to understand if he's going to have, he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road."
LESSONS OF HISTORY BUSHISM
"That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century. "
PRESERVING FOR THE PAST BUSHISM
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
HEMIPSHERES BUSHISM
"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods."
SADDAM HUSSEIN BUSHISM
"The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself."
ENVIRONMENTALIST BUSHISM
"I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully."
EMPATHETIC BUSHISM
"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."
INDIGNANT BUSHISM
"They misunderestimated me."
REJECTIONIST BUSHISM
"I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university."
LITERALIST BUSHISM
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."
HOPEFUL BUSHISM
"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."
SOCIAL ACTIVIST BUSHISM
"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor like you like to be liked yourself."
APOLOGIST BUSHISM
"Unfairly, but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against things. Anti-immigrant, for example."
BARD BUSHISM
"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."
BELIEVER BUSHISM
"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe -I believe what I believe is right."
THE PRESERVER BUSHISM
"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve."
Speaking during Perseverance Month at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
ANGRY YOUNG MAN BUSHISM
"I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember."
On his discussions of the Vietnam War while a student at Yale University
MAN WITH A PAST BUSHISM
Marijuana? Cocaine? I'm not going to talk about what I did as a child."
SCHOLARLY BUSHISM
"I read the newspaper."
Answering a question about his reading habits, New Hampshire Republican Debate, Dec. 2, 1999
WOMEN'S RIGHTS BUSHISM
"States should have the right to enact reasonable laws and restrictions particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live."
GLORY DAYS BUSHISM
"It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then."
PARENT BUSHISM
"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis."
INTERNATIONALIST BUSHISM
"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."
EDUKASHUN PRESIDENT BUSHISM
" "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
CRISIS LEADER BUSHISM
"The press often ask me, well, is this the-is the evil one hiding from us in Afghanistan, the ones who have done this to America? I said, I don't know."