The Quotable GWB

[barvybe]

Well, too good to resist: you can now get a calendar of GWB "MisQuotes".

"They Misunderestimated Me!"

The very curious language of George W. Bush

2003 desk calendar of presidential misspeak.

Sample quotes include:

"I've got a record. A record that is conservative. And a record that is compassionated."

Ted Koppel: So he's your lightning rod?

GWB: More than that. He's my sounding rod.

"If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it."

"The role of government is to create an environment that encourages Hispanic owned businesses, women owned businesses, anybody-kind-of-owned businesses."

"There is a lot of speculation and I guess there is going to continue to be a lot of speculation until the speculation ends."

"What I'm against is quotas. I am against hard quotas. Quotas, they basically delineate based on 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."

"For every fatal shooting, there are roughly three non-fatal shootings. And folks, this is unacceptable in America. Its just unacceptable. And we are going to do something about it."

"Laura and I are proud to call John and Michelle Engler our friends. I know you're proud to call him governor. What a good man the Englers are."

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."

"The Senator [John McCain] 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."

"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power to power to power of generating plants."

"Neither in French, nor in English, nor in Mexican."

"It is clear our nation is reliant on big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas."

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[gonzojournilist]

Originally posted by barvybe

"Neither in French, nor in English, nor in Mexican."

lmao

our President really said that?

what was he fucking high?

[vixenfoxxy]

"What I'm against is quotas. I am against hard quotas. Quotas, they basically delineate based on 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."

LMFAOOOOOO he's always so FREAKING out of it! Does he have like ultra-advanced ADD or something???

[LavenderMenace]

Originally posted by barvybe

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."

He's so right. It CAN Happen! Give peace a chance people! and Fish!

and this is the guy we're follwoing into war. awesome.

[mikiebphonk]

http://www.lemonbovril.co.uk/bushspeech/

creat your own bush speach hehe

[phuturephunk]

. . . yes, I'd like two nuttyburgers and a side of psycho fries to go please . . .

[mikiebphonk]

you forgot gafiltah fish, matsoball soup, and katz's pastrami yum//

[phuturephunk]

. . . oh, and give me 2 bags of those zaneynutters off the dollar menu while you're at it . . .

[barvybe]

next he's gonna come out with something like:

"When i say war i mean something that is going to be good for people, cause if its good for people then i'm for it -- if that's what other people are saying."

[misk]

Originally posted by LavenderMenace

He's so right. It CAN Happen! Give peace a chance people! and Fish!

and this is the guy we're follwoing into war. awesome.

the fish one was my fave too! lol

[joeg]

holy shit... how the fuck did this guy get elected? oh wait... there was that whole florida "incident"

This guy makes Dan Quale look like a genius...

I guess theres only 1 thing left to be grateful for... we can all thank whatever powers exist that Quale was the OTHER bush's running mate... could you imagine the mess that 'W' & Quale could cause? (not that 'W' isn't leading us into a massacre of a war...)

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

-- Vice President Dan Quayle

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/22/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

-- Senator Dan Quayle, 9/15/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92, The New Yorker, 10/10/88, p.102)

This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!

-- Senator Dan Quayle, 9/2/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is `to be prepared'.

-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 12/6/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

-- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the Phoenix Republican Forum, 3/23/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92) Also reported by Reuters, 5/2/90

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the -- to the back!

-- Senator Dan Quayle, 8/17/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

-- Vice President Dan Quayle winning friends while speaking to the United Negro College Fund, 5/9/89 This gem has been added to Bartlett's `Familiar Quotations'. (reported in Esquire, 8/92) (reported in the NY Times, 12/9/92)

Take a breath, Al... Inhale.

-- Vice President Dan Quayle politely cutting off Senator Al Gore during the VP Debate in Atlanta, 10/13/92. Gov. Zell Miller of Georgia said that Dan Quayle reminded him of one of his grandkids when they've had too much sugar.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

-- Senator Dan Quayle, US News and World Report (10/10/88)

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

-- Vice President Dan Quayle, Hawaii, 4/25/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

-- Vice President Dan Quayle addressing the 20th anniversary celebration of the moon landing, 7/20/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

-- Vice President Dan Quayle after the San Francisco earthquake, 10/19/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

Bobby Knight told me this: ``There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.'' In other words a good offense wins.

-- Senator Dan Quayle, in a speech to the City Club of Chicago, comparing the offensive capabilities of the Warsaw Pact with the defensive system of NATO, 9/8/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

[stacychase]

This man may kill my poor Grandpa.... Everytime he sees him on the TV, in newspapers or in magazines... He goes nuts!!!!