"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." -- Washington, DC, 4/10/01
"Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is." -- Omaha, NE, 2/28/01 (In this Freudian slip, Bush meant to refer to the "death tax.")
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." -- Townsend, TN, 2/21/01
"I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well." -- Washington, DC, 1/29/01
"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" -- Associated Press, 1/18/01
"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" -- New York Times, 1/14/01
"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." -- Washington, DC, 1/11/01
"I would have to ask the questioner. I haven't had a chance to ask the questioners the question they've been questioning." -- Austin, TX, 1/8/01
"Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person." -- Time, 12/25/00
"Dick Cheney and I do not want this nation to be in a recession. We want anybody who can find work to be able to find work." -- 60 Minutes II, 12/5/00
"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law." -- Austin, TX, 11/22/00
"They misunderestimated me." -- Bentonville, AR, 11/6/00
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program." -- St. Charles, MO, 11/2/00
"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children, living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet" -- Arlington Heights, IL, 10/24/00
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." -- LaCrosse, WI, 10/18/00
"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun." -- Third Presidential Debate, St. Louis, MO, 10/18/00
"Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is, I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president" -- Third Presidential Debate, St. Louis, MO, 10/18/00
"Our priorities is our faith." -- Greensboro, NC -- 10/10/00
"[Gore's tax plan is] going to require numerous IRA agents." -- Greensboro, NC, 10/10/00
"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question" -- Reynoldsburg, OH, 10/4/00
"I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy." -- Redwood, CA, 9/29/00
"One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected." -- Los Angeles, CA, 9/27/00
"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas." -- Beaverton, OR, 9/25/00
"The woman who knew that I had dyslexia, I never interviewed her" -- Orange, CA, 9/15/00
"I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs." -- Orlando, FL, 9/12/00
"We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers." -- Houston, TX, 9/6/00
"We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans." -- Scranton, PA, 9/6/00
"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness." -- CNN Online Chat, 8/30/00
"I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes." -- Des Moines, IA, 8/21/00
"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together." -- Bartlett, TN, 8/18/00
"And if he continues that, I'm going to tell the nation what I think about him as a human being and a person." -- The Today Show, 8/1/00
"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" -- Cleveland, OH, 6/29/00
"The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty ... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas." -- All Things Considered, 6/16/00
"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis." -- Meet the Press, 4/15/00
"Reading is the basics for all learning." -- Reston, VA, 3/28/00
"The fact that he relies on facts, says things that are not factual, are going to undermine his campaign." -- New York Times, 3/4/00
"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" -- Concord, NH, 1/29/00
"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve." -- Los Angeles Times, 1/28/00
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." -- Nashua, NH, 1/27/00
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" -- Florence, SC, 1/11/00
"The important question is, 'How many hands have I shaked?'" -- New York Times, 10/23/99
"Keep good relations with the Grecians." -- The Economist, 6/12/99