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Back to Election 2000
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In His Own Words
The Idiot-Savant Pidgin English of George W. BushActual quotes from the Man Who Would Be King (A current staple of e-mail forwardings)
"Actually, I -- this may sound a little West Texan to you, but
I like it. When I'm talking about -- when I'm talking about myself,
and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me."
"The fact that he relies on facts -- says things that are not factual
-- are going to undermine his campaign."
"How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that
simply suckles kids through?"
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and
uncertainty and potential mental losses."
"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."
"I understand small business growth. I was one."
"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and
principles, come and join this campaign."
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
"I think we agree, the past is over."
"We ought to make the pie higher."
"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my
case."
"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"
"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what
you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve."
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like
you like to be liked yourself."
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
"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."
"We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations;
their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the
science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of
federal cufflink."
"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature." --Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000
"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job
is underestimating."
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