From: Tony Berkman (tberkman@rcn.com)
Date: Sat Sep 16 2000 - 11:36:21 PDT
>GWB quotes.
>
> "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,
>Iowa, Aug. 21, 2000
>
>''This campaign not only hears the voices of the entrepreneurs and the
>farmers and the entrepreneurs, we hear the voices of those struggling to
>get ahead."-Ibid.
>
>"We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or
>hold our allies hostile.''-Ibid.
>
>"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who
>brings people together."-Bartlett, Tenn., Aug. 18, 2000 (Thanks to Tarja
>Black.)
>
>"I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were
>wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where."-Interview with the
>Associated Press, Aug. 11, 2000 (Thanks to Ryan Rhodes.)
>
>"I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to
>a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our
>thinking."-Salinas, Calif., Aug. 10, 2000 (Thanks to Kris Sester.)
>
>To New Jersey's secretary of state, the Hon. DeForest Soaries Jr., "You
>might want to comment on that, Honorable." -as quoted by Dana Milbank in
>the
>Washington Post, July 15, 2000
>
>"This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I
>understand the emotionality of death penalty cases."--Seattle
>Post-Intelligencer, June 23, 2000 (Thanks to Johnny Green.)
>
>"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, June 29, 2000 (Thanks to Douglas Basford.)
>
>"Unfairly but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against
>things. Anti-immigrant, for example. And we're not a party of
>anti-immigrants. Quite the opposite. We're a party that welcomes
>people."-Cleveland, July 1, 2000 (Thanks to M. Bateman.)
>
>"The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president when it
>comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, it's
>going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective."-In
>Wayne, Mich., as quoted by Katharine Q. Seelye in the New York Times, June
>28, 2000
>
>"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, NPR, June 16, 2000
>(Thanks to Andy Nouraee.)
>
>"I'm gonna talk about the ideal world, Chris. I've read-I understand
>reality. If you're asking me as the president, would I understand reality,
>I do."-On abortion, Hardball, MSNBC; May 31, 2000
>
>"There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of
>people like me."-On the coming Social Security crisis; Wilton, Conn.; June
>9, 2000 (Thanks to Andy Mais.)
>
>"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is
>underestimating."-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000 (Thanks to Alfred
>Stanley, Austin, Texas.)
>
>Bush: "First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's
>dieciséis de Septiembre, and ..."
>Matthews: "What's that in English?"
>Bush: "Fifteenth of September." -Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
>
>"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."-Ibid.
>
>"This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past. In the past we
>were certain, we were certain it was us versus the Russians in the past. We
>were certain, and therefore we had huge nuclear arsenals aimed at each
>other to keep the peace. That's what we were certain of. ... You see, even
>though it's an uncertain world, we're certain of some things. We're certain
>that even though the 'evil empire' may have passed, evil still remains.
>We're certain there are people that can't stand what America stands for.
>... We're certain there are madmen in this world, and there's terror, and
>there's missiles and I'm certain of this, too: I'm certain to maintain the
>peace, we better have a military of high morale, and I'm certain that under
>this administration, morale in the military is dangerously
>low."-Albuquerque, N.M., the Washington Post, May 31, 2000
>
>"He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the
>results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to
>be."-On Rudy Giuliani, The Edge With Paula Zahn, May 18, 2000 (Thanks to
>Peter Goldman.)
>
>"The fact that he relies on facts-says things that are not factual-are
>going to undermine his campaign."-New York Times, March 4, 2000 (Thanks to
>Garry Trudeau.)
>
>"I think we agree, the past is over."-On his meeting with John McCain,
>Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
>
>"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."--Reuters, May 5,
>2000 (Thanks to Allison Fansler.)
>
> " Because the picture on the newspaper. It just seems so
>un-American to me, the picture of the guy storming the house with a scared
>little boy there. I talked to my little brother, Jeb-I haven't told this to
>many people. But he's the governor of-I shouldn't call him my little
>brother--my brother, Jeb, the great governor of Texas. "
>The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, April 27, 2000
>
>"I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to
>know."-On what happened in negotiations between the Justice Department and
>Elián González's Miami relatives, as quoted by the Associated Press, April
>26, 2000 (Thanks to Saul Selzer.)
>
>"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes
>until we get an objective analysis."-Meet the Press, April 15, 2000
>
>"You subscribe politics to it. I subscribe freedom to it."-Responding to a
>question about whether he and Al Gore were making the Elián González case a
>political issue. In Palm Beach, Fla., as quoted by the Associated Press,
>April 6, 2000 (Thanks to Helen Kennedy.)
>
>"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
>
>"Reading is the basics for all learning."-Announcing his "Reading First"
>initiative in Reston, Va., March 28, 2000 (Thanks to Carl LaRocca.)
>
>"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-federal
>cufflink."-At Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, March 30, 2000
>
>"Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative
>ads."-Fund-raising letter from George W. Bush, quoted in the Washington
>Post, March 24, 2000
>
>"I've got a reason for running. I talk about a larger goal, which is to
>call upon the best of America. It's part of the renewal. It's reform and
>renewal. Part of the renewal is a set of high standards and to remind
>people that the greatness of America really does depend on neighbors
>helping neighbors and children finding mentors. I worry. I'm very worried
>about, you know, the kid who just wonders whether America is meant for him.
>I really worry about that. And uh, so, I'm running for a reason. I'm
>answering this question here and the answer is, you cannot lead America to
>a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly
>negative. And so to answer your question, I'm going to win because people
>sense my heart, know my sense of optimism and know where I want to lead the
>country. And I tease people by saying, 'A leader, you can't say, follow me
>the world is going to be worse.' I'm an optimistic person. I'm an
>inherently content person. I've got a great sense of where I want to lead
>and I'm comfortable with why I'm running. And, you know, the call on that
>speech was, beware. This is going to be a tough campaign."-Interview with
>the Washington Post, March 23, 2000
>
>"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in
>nature.''-Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000
>
>"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."-Today, Feb. 23, 2000
>
>"I understand small business growth. I was one."-New York Daily News, Feb.
>19, 2000
>
>"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."-To
>reporters in Florence, S.C., Feb. 17, 2000
>
>"Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really pleased with the
>organization and the thousands of South Carolinians that worked on my
>behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled."-To Cokie Roberts, This Week,
>Feb. 20, 2000
>
>"I don't want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on the bus 16
>hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving hundreds of speeches,
>getting pillared in the press and cartoons and still staying on message to
>win?"-Newsweek, Feb. 28, 2000
>
>"I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it
>occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists."-ibid.
>
>"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and
>principles, come and join this campaign."-Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000
>
>"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
>
>"We ought to make the pie higher."-South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb.
>15, 2000
>
>"I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to attract
>votes and to lead people toward a better tomorrow somehow I get subscribed
>to some-some doctrine gets subscribed to me."-Meet The Press, Feb. 13, 2000
>
>"I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less-I pontificate less,
>although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm more interacting
>with people."-ibid
>
>"I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I
>think we should knock down the tollbooth."-Nashua, N.H., as quoted by Gail
>Collins in the New York Times, Feb. 1, 2000
>
>"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my
>case."-Pella, Iowa, as quoted by the San Antonio Express-News, Jan. 30, 2000
>
>"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"-Concord, N.H., Jan.
>29, 2000
>
>"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
>
>"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."-Greater Nashua,
>N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000
>
>"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.''-Quoted
>by Molly Ivins, the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000 (Thanks to Toni
>L. Gould.)
>
>"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who
>they were," he said. "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
>
>"The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women who are focused
>on what's best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women,
>women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will
>not stain the house."-Des Moines Register debate, Iowa, Jan. 15, 2000
>
>"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
>and potential mential losses."-At a South Carolina oyster roast, as quoted
>in the Financial Times, Jan. 14, 2000
>
>"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you
>like to be liked yourself."-ibid.
>
>"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"-Florence, S.C.,
>Jan. 11, 2000
>
>"Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure."-ibid.
>
>"There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be
>town-hall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge
>country."-Larry King Live, Dec. 16, 1999
>
>"I read the newspaper."-In answer to a question about his reading habits,
>New Hampshire Republican Debate, Dec. 2, 1999
>
>"I think it's important for those of us in a position of responsibility to
>be firm in sharing our experiences, to understand that the babies out of
>wedlock is a very difficult chore for mom and baby alike. ... I believe we
>ought to say there is a different alternative than the culture that is
>proposed by people like Miss Wolf in society. ... And, you know, hopefully,
>condoms will work, but it hasn't worked."-Meet the Press, Nov. 21, 1999
>
>"The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of
>the country. Within months, I knew many of them."-From A Charge To Keep, by
>George W. Bush, published November 1999
>
>"It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his
>party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents."-Keene,
>N.H., Oct. 22, 1999, quoted in the New Republic, Nov. 15, 1999
>
>"The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?"-Answering a
>question about why he hasn't spent more time in New Hampshire, in the New
>York Times, Oct. 23, 1999
>
>"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 discussions of the Vietnam War
>when he was an undergraduate at Yale, Washington Post, July 27, 1999
>
>"The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from
>your foreign minister, who came to Texas."-To a Slovak journalist as quoted
>by Knight Ridder News Service, June 22, 1999. Bush's meeting was with Janez
>Drnovsek, the prime minister of Slovenia.
>
>"If the East Timorians decide to revolt, I'm sure I'll have a
>statement."-Quoted by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, June 16, 1999
>
>"Keep good relations with the Grecians."-Quoted in the Economist, June 12,
>1999
>
>"Kosovians can move back in."-CNN Inside Politics, April 9, 1999
>
>"It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then."-From a 1994
>interview, as quoted in First Son, by Bill Minutaglio
>
>"And if he continues that, I'm going to tell the nation what I think about
>him as a human being and a person."-President George H.W. Bush, on the
>Today show, Aug. 1, 2000
>
>
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