Scottishlass
Knoxville, Tennessee USA
Posted: May 22, 2008, 7:27 AM CST
A few "Bushisms" for your amusement.......
As Luce reminded me, he said, without data, without facts, without information, the discussions about public education mean that a person is just another opinion. (September 9, 2003)
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. [9/17/2002]
In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.
A lame duck session, for people who don't know what that means, it means the Senate is coming and the House is coming back between now and Christmas and they've got a few days to get some big things done. [11/7/2002]
I was proud the other day when both Republicans and Democrats stood with me in the Rose Garden to announce their support for a clear statement of purpose, "You disarm, or we will." [10/5/2002]
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.
See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.
The law I sign today directs new funds and new focus to the task of collecting vital intelligence on terrorist threats and on weapons of mass production. [11/27/2002]
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.
It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me.
We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.
I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves. (September 21, 2003)
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
Will the highways on the Internet become more few?
We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job. That's what I'm telling you..
We are ready for any unforeseen event which may or may not happen.
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
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. (January 2001)
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.