These George Bushisms and Bush Speak were taken from various sources such as Presidential Speak and the big list on Slate.com. A Complete list of Bushisms are updated frequently by Jacob Weisberg on Slate. We will try and update these as well but Slate's list will always be the most current for the ones they find. Even though we believe that actions speak louder than words and one should always judge a politician by his deeds and actions and not his staged, media manipulated performances, we also felt that a four-page list this large and impressive speaks too loudly about the ignorance of the man. On our list you will find misuse of tense and other bad grammar, inconsistent thought, unintended thought, mangled words, made up words, and many other mistakes of speech. We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried. Enjoy!

"This is a nation that loves our freedom, loves our country." --Washington, D.C., May 17, 2003

"Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads."--fund-raising letter from George W. Bush as quoted in The Washington Post, March 24, 2000

"My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the---in the Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen."--Crawford, Texas, August 13, 2001

"If you found somebody that had information about an attack on America, you'd want to know as best as we can to find out what the facts are." --Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 12, 2005

"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 Associated Press, August 11, 2000

"And, most importantly, Alma Powell, secretary of Colin Powell, is with us." --referring to the wife of Colin Powell, Washington, D.C., January 30, 2003

"They can get in line like those who have been here legally and have been working to become a citizenship in a legal manner." --referring to immigrant workers, Washington, D.C., December 20, 2004

"But Iraq has--have got people there that are willing to kill, and they're hard-nosed killers. And we will work with the Iraqis to secure their future." --Washington, D.C., April 23, 2005

"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."--Florence, South Carolina, February 17, 2000

"But if you've been laid off work, you're 100 percent unemployed, and I worry about it."--Green Bay, Wisconsi, September 3, 2001

"The important question is, How many hands have I shaked."-answering a question about why he hasn't spent more time in New Hampshire, The New York Times, October 23, 1999

"The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany."-Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006

"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, Beaufort, South Carolina, February 16, 2000

"It means your own money would grow better than that which the government can make it grow. And that's important."--on what private accounts could do for Social Security funds, Falls Church, Virginia, April, 29, 2005

"I'm looking forward t a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend" --on the prospect of visiting Denmark, Washington, D.C., June 29, 2005

"Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really pleased with the organization and the thousands of South Carolianians that worked on my behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled."--appearing on ABC's This Week, February 20, 2000

"[I]t's a myth to think I don't know what's going on. It's a myth to think that I'm not aware that there's opinions that don't agree with mine, because I'm fully aware of that."--Philadelphia, PA, December 12, 2005

"The way I like to put it is this. There's no bigger issue for the president to remind the moms and dads of America, if you happen to have a child be fortunate to have a child." --Washington, D.C., March 7, 2001

"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." --discussing abortion on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, May 31, 2000

"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question." --in response to a question about whether he wished he could take back any of his answers in the first debate, Reynoldsburg, Ohio, October 4, 2000

"I understand small-business growth. I was one." --New York Daily News, February 18, 2000

"I was going to say he's a piece of work, but that might not translate too well. Is that all right, if I call you a 'piece of work'?" --to Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg, Washington, D.C., June 20, 2005

"I don't want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on the bus sixteen 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?"--as quoted by Newsweek, February 28, 2000

"I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome."--on the reception of American forces in Iraq, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 12, 2005

"God loves you, and I love you. And you can count on both of us as a powerful message that people who wonder about their future can hear."--Los Angeles, CA, March 3, 2004

"I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less--I pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it form this show. And I'm more interacting with people."--Meet the Press, February 13, 2000

"We got people working all their life at hard work, contributing by payroll taxes into a Social Security system."--Washington, D.C., May 13, 2005

"You might want to comment on that, Honorable."--to New Jersey's secretary of state, the Honorable DeForest B. Soaries, Jr., as quoted by Dana Milbank in The Washington, Post., July 15, 2000

"As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards." --CNN online chat, August 30, 2000

"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."--Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, February 16, 2000

"[T]he best way to find these terrorists who hide in holes is to get people coming forth to describe the location of the hole, is to give clues and data."--Washington, D.C., December 15, 2003

"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."--Washington, D.C., September 21, 2003

"I'm confident we can work with congress to come up with an economic stimlus package that will send a clear signal to the risk-takers and capital formators of our country."--Washington, D.C., September 17, 2001

"There are some monuments where the land is so wide spread, they just encompass as much as possible. And the integral part of the--the precious part, so to speak--I guess all land is precious, but the part that the people uniformly would not want to spoil, will not be despoiled. But there are parts of the monument lands where we can explore without affecting the overall environment."--Media round table, Washington, D.C., March 13, 2001

"We've had leaks out of the administration branch, had leaks out of the legislative branch, and out of the executive branch and the legislative branch, and I've spoken out consistently against them, and I want to know who the leakers are."--Chicago, Illinois, September 30, 2003

"I mean, there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein, 'You're a threat.' And the 9/11 attacks extenuated that threat, as far as I---concerned." --Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 12, 2005

"We ought to make the pie higher."--South Carolina Republican debate, Columbia, South Carolina, February 15, 2000

"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating."--as quoted in U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000

"Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history--revisionist historians is what I like to call them."--Elizabeth, New Jersey, June 16, 2003

"I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race."--describing a phone call to Senator John Breaux, Crawford, Texas, December 2, 2000

"I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging."--at the dedication of his portrait, Austin, Texas, January 4, 2002

Bush: "Peter. Are you going to ask that quesiton with shades on?"
Wallsten: "I'll take them off."
Bush: "I'm interested in the shade look, seriously."
Wallsten: "All right, I'll keep it, then."
Bush: "For the viewers, there's no sun."
Wallsten: "I guess it depends on your perspective."
Bush: Touché."--exchange with the legallly blind Los Angeles Times reporter Peter Wallsten, to whom Bush later apologized, Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006

"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature." --Los Angeles, CA, February 23, 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."--appearing on Meet the Press, February 13, 2000

"Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat."--Washington, D.C., September 17, 2004

"It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term." --St. Louis, Missouri, October 18, 2000

"I know something about being a government. And you've got a good one." --stumping for Governor Mike Huckabee, Bentonville, Arkansas, November 4, 2002

"This has been tough weeks in that country." --Washinton, D.C., April 13, 2004

"He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safter place for him to be." --discussing Rudy Giuliani on The Edge with Paula Zahn, May 18, 2000

"The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a person's race." --Washington, D.C., April 5, 2001

"I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth."--Nashua, New Hampshire as quoted by Gail Collins in The New York Times, February 1, 2000

"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."--Interview with The Associated Press, January 18, 2001

"I didn't join the International Criminal Court because I don't want to put our troops in the hands of prosecutors from other nations. Look, if somebody has done some wrong in our military, we'll take care of it. We got plenty of capability of dealing with Justice." -Niceville, Florida, August 10, 2004

"Well, we've made the decision to defeat the terrorists abroad so we don't have to face them here at home. And when you engage the terrorists abroad, it causes activity and action." -Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005

"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun." -St. Louis, Missouri, October 18, 2000

"See, without the tax relief package, there would have been a deficit, but there wouldn't have been the commiserate-no 'commmiserate'--the kick to our economy that occurred as a resiult of the tax relief." --Washington, D.C., December 15, 2003

"I think we're making progress. We understand where the power of this country lay. It lays in the hearts and souls of Americans. It must lay in our pocketbooks. It lays in the willingness for people to work hard. But as importantly, it lays in the fact that we've got citizens from all walks of life, all political parties, that are willing to say, I want to love my neighbor. I want to make somebody's life just a little bit better." --Concord Middle School, Concord, North Carolina, April 11, 2001

"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve."--speaking during "Preservation Month" at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, New Hampshire, as quoted in the Los Angeles Times, January 28, 2000

"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."--Greece, New York, May 24, 2005

"One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor--the president--governor--president. Ooops. Ex-governor. I went to Bethesda Naval Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched him--get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq--and at that same--right after I gave him the Purple Heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States--a Mexican citizen, now a United States citizen." --Washington, D.C., January 9, 2004

"I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same questions: How'd your meeting go with so-and-so?...How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address--state of the budget address, whatever you calll it?" --interview with The Washinton Post, March 9, 2001

"Any time we've got any kind of inkling that somebody is thinking about doing something to an American and something to our homeland, you've just got to know we're moving on it, to protect the United Nations Constitution, and at the same time, we're protecting you." --Aberdeen, South Dakota, October 31, 2002

"My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt." --budget address to Congress, February 27, 2001

"He was a state sponsor of terror. In other words, the government had declared, 'You are a state sponsor of terror.'" --on Saddam Hussein, Manhattan, Kansas, January 23, 2006

"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."--as quoted by Molly Ivins in the San Francisco Chronicle, January 21, 2000

"See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free naitons don't develop weapons of mass destruction."--Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 3, 2003

"Do you have blacks, too?" --to Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardosa, Washington, D.C., Novermber 8, 2001

"He understands the need for a timely write of the constitution." --on interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi of Iraq, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005

"Well, it's an unimaginable honor to be the president during the Fourth of July of this country. It means what these words say, for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We're blessed with such values in America. And I--it's--I'm a proud man to be the nation based upon such wonderful values." --visiting the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C., July 2, 2001

"After standing on the stage, after the debates I made it very plain, we will not have an all-volunteer army. And yet, this week---we will have an all-volunteer army. Let me restate that." --Daytona Beach, Florida, October 16, 2004

"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." --as quoted in Newsweek, February 28, 2000

"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there."--speaking at Iowa Western Community College, Council Bluffs, Iowa, January 21, 2000

"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."--Los Angeles, California, April 8, 2000

"I must confess. It did confuse some of the folks at the Crawford, Texas, coffee shop when I was traveling around the country with Theodore Kennedy." --Chicago, Illinois, May 13, 2002

"Anyway, I'm so thankful and so gracious--I'm gracious that my brother Jeb is concerned about the hemisphere as well." --Miami, Florida, June 4, 2003

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." --Nashua, New Hampshire, January 27, 2000

"For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times." --Tokyo, Japan, February 18, 2002

"We need to counter the shock wave of the evildoer by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates." --Washington, D.C., October 4, 2001

"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, January 14, 2000

"I want to thank you for coming to the White House to give me an opportunity to urge you to work with these five senators and three congressmen, to work hard to get this trade promotion authority moving. The power that be, well most of the power that be, sits right here."--Washington, D.C., June 18, 2001

"One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected." --on federal education requirements, Los Angeles, CA September 27, 2000

"We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives--like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to red and write." --on federal education requirements, Washington, D.C., Apriil 28, 2005

"We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make--it would hope--put a free press's mind at east that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see." --Washington, D.C., Apriil 4, 2005

"It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life." --Washington, D.C., December 21, 2004

"The Bob Jones policy on interracial dating, I mean I spoke out on interracial dating. I spoke against that. I spoke out against interracial dating. I support the policy of interracial dating."-- CBS News, February 25, 2000

"My job is to , like, think beyond the immediate."-- Washington, D.C., April 21, 2004

"Finally, the desk, where we'll have our picture taken in front of, is, nine other presidents used it. This was given to us by Queen Victoria, in the 1870s, I think it was. President Roosevelt put the door in so people would not know he was in a wheelchair. John Kennedy put his head out the door."--showing German newspaper reporter Kai Diekmann the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006

"We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge."--Washington, D.C., April, 20, 2005

"And if you're interested in the quality of education and you're paying attention to what you hear at Laclede, why don't you volunteer? Why don't you mentor a child how to read?"--Pierre Laclede Elementary School, St. Louis, MO, January 5, 2004

"There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be town-hall meetings. There needs to be travel. Thios is a huge country."-appearing on CNN's Larry King Live, December 16, 1999

"I need to be able to move the right people to the right place at the right time to protect you, and I'm not going to accept a lousy bill out f the United Nations Senate."--South Bend, IN, October 31, 2002

"I am determined to keep the process on the road to peace."--Washington, D.C., June 10, 2003

"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe--I believe what I believe is right."--Rome, Italy, July 22, 2001

"I want each and every American to know for certain that I'm responsible for the decisions I make and each of you are as well."--appearing on Live with Regis, September 21, 2000

"I confirmed to the prime minister that we appreciate our friendship."--after meeting with Prime Minister Jean Chretien of Canada, Washington, D.C., February 5, 2001

"We need to apply twenty-first-century information technology to the health care field. We need to have our medical records put on the I.T."--Collinsville, IL, January 5, 2005

"It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents."-Keene, New Hampshire, October 22, 1999, as quoted in the November 15, 1999 issue of The New Republic

"That's called, 'A Charge to Keep,' based upon a religious hymn. The hymn talks about serving God. The president's job is never to promote a religion."--showing German newspaper reporter Kai Diekmann the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006

"It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way."--Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005

"A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness."--appearing on The Edge with Paula Zahn, September 18, 2000

"Part of the facts is understanding we have a problem, and part of the facts is what you're going to do about it."--Kirtland, Ohio, April 15, 2005

"It's going to require numerous IRA agents."--on Al Gore's tax plan, Greensboro, North Carolina, October 10, 2000

"My answer is bring them on."--on Iraqi militants attacking U.S. forces, Washington, D.C., July 3, 2003

"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, The Washington Post, July 27, 1999

"There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead."--Washington, D.C., May 11, 2001

"That's George Washington, the first president, of course. The interesting thing about him is that I read three--three of four books about him last year. Isn't that interesting?" --showing German newspaper reporter Kai Diekmann the Oval Office, Washington, D. C., May 5, 2006

"You see, the Senate wants to take away some of the powers of the administrative branch".--Washington, D.C., September 19, 2002

"Now, we talked to Joan Hanover. She and her husband, George, were visiting with us. They are near retirement--retiring--in the process of retiring, meaning they're very smart, active, capable people who are retirement age and are retiring."--Alexandrai, Virginia, February 12, 2003

"I firmly believe that the world cannot allow the world's worst leaders to hold America blackmail, to threaten America, to threaten our peace and threaten our friends and allies with the world's worst weapons"--South Bend, Indiana, September 5, 2002

"I think--tide turning--see, as I remember---I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of--it's easy to see a tide turn--did I say those words?"--Washington, D.C., June 14 2006

"The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned firsthand 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 with Janez Drnovsek, the prime minister of Slovenia

"I think it's very important for world leaders to understand that when a new administration comes in, the new administration will be running the foreign policy."--interview with USA Today, January 12, 2001

"First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill."--Washington, D.C., May 19, 2003

"Home is important. It's important to have a home."--Crawford, TX, February 18, 2001

"One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who have lost their life."--White House, April 12, 2004

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."--Washington, D.C., August 5, 2004

"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country."--Poplar Bluff, Missouri, September 6, 2004

"I can look you in the eye and tell you I feel I've tried to solve the problem diplomatically to the max, and would have committed troops both in Afghanistan and Iraq knowing what I know today."--Irvine, CA, April 24, 2006

"And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly."--Washington, D.C., March 29, 2001

"We ended the rule of one of history's worst tyrants, and in so doing, we not only freed the American people, we made our own people more secure."--Crawford, Texas, May 3, 2003

"This morning my administration released the budget numbers for fiscal 2006. These budget numbers are not just estimates; these are the actual results for the fiscal year that ended February the thirtieth."--referring to the fiscal year that ended on September 30, Washington, D.C., October 11. 2006

"I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the war, it requires an expenditure of money that is commiserate with keeping a promise to our troops to make sure that they're well-paid, well-trained, well-equipped."--Washington, D.C., December 15, 2003

"Recession means that people's incomes, at the employer level, are going down, basically relative to costs, people are getting laid off."--Washington, D.C., February 19, 2004

"The march to war hurt the economy. Laura reminded me a while ago that--remember what was on the TV screens--she calls me 'George W.'---'George W.'--I call her 'First Lady.' No, anyway--she said, we said, march to war on our TV screen."--Bay Shore, New York, March 11, 2004

"If the East Timorians decide to revolt, I'm sure I'll have a statement."--as quoted by Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, June 16, 1999

"I think there is some methodology in my travels." --Washington, D.C., March 5, 2001

"I'm not going to be rushed into making a difficult decision, a necessary decision, to say to our troops, 'We're going ot give you the tools necessary to succeed and a strategy to help you succeed.'"--Washington, D.C., December 13, 2006

"I am to be a competitive nation."--San Jose, CA, April 21, 2006

"A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses--Hispanically owned or otherwise--pay taxes at the highest marginal rate."--to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C., March 19, 2001

"First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country."--on the Kyoto accord, interview with The Washington Post, April 24, 2001

"As far as the legal hassling and wrangling and posturing in Florida, I would suggest you talk to our team in Florida led by Jim Baker."--Crawford, Texas, November 30, 2000

"You/ve also got to measure in order to begin to effect change that's just more--when there's more than talk, there's just actual--a paradigm shift."--Wasington, D.C., July 1, 2003

"I have a different vision of leaderhip. A leadership is someone who brings people together."--Bartlett, Tennessee, August 18, 2000

"I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well."--Washington, D.C., January 29, 2001

"It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber."--Washington, D.C., April 10, 2002

"I'd rather have them sacrificing on behalf of our nation than, you know, endless hours of testimony on congressional hill."--Fort Meade, Maryland, June 4, 2002

"We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom."--Charlotte, North Carolina, April 4, 2004

"The United States and Russia are in the midst of a transformationed relationhsip that will yeild peace and progress."--Washington, D.C., November 13, 2001

"We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease."--Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14, 2001

"I know there's a lot of young ladies who are growing up wondering whether or not they can be champs. And they see the championship teams from USC and University of Portland here, girls who worked hard to get to where they are, and they're wondering about the example they're setting. What is life choices about?"--Washington, D.C., February 24, 2003

"The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some of their own money."--Westminster, California, September 13, 2000

"I like my buddies from West Texas. I liked them when I was young. I liked them when I was middle-age, I liked them before I was president, and I like them during president, and I like them after president."--Nashville, Tennessee, February 1, 2006

"I want to thank the dozens of welfare-to-work stories, the actual examples of people who made the firm and solemn commitment to work to embetter themselves."--Washington, D.C., April 18, 2002

"People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech,' or "here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me."--interview with The New York Times, March 15, 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."--NPR's All Things Considered, June 16, 2000

"I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans."--on the Oprah Winfrey Show, September 19, 2000

"Well, that's going to be up to the pundits and the people to make up their mind. I'll tell you what is a president for him, for example, talking about my record in the state of Texas. I mean, he's willing to say anything in order to convince people that I haven't ha d a good reord in Texas."--MSNBC, September 20, 2000

"The government is not the surplus's money, Vice President."--as quoted in The Washington Post, November 5, 2000

"Listen, I want to thank leaders of the--in the faith--faith-based and community-based community for being here."--Washington, D.C., September 6, 2005

"The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be okay, life could be better, and they were just geussing as to what the conditions might be like."--New York, NY September 21, 2004

"For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three nonfatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it."--Philadelphia, PA, May 14, 2001

"We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job. That's what I'm telling you."--Gulfport, Mississippi, September 20, 2005

"What I'm suggesting to you is, if you can't name the foreign minister of Mexico, therefore, you know, you're not capable of what you do. But the truth of the matter is you are whether you can or not."--as quoted in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 6, 1999

"They have miscalculated me as a leader."--Westminster, CA, September 13, 2000

"And, Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."--To FEMA director Mike Borwn, who resigned ten days later amid criticism of his job performance; Mobile, Alabama, September 2, 2005

"It's important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots."--remarks to the University of Nebraska women's volleyball team, the 2001 national champions, Washington, D.C., May 31, 2001

"There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's like."--Washington, D.C., December 11, 2002

"If he's---the inferences is that somehow he thinks slavery is a---is a noble institution--I would---I would strongly reject that assumption. That John Ashcroft is an open-minded, inclusive person."--interview on NBC Nightly News, January 15, 2001

"If it were to rain a lot there is concern from the Army Corps of Engineers that the leavees might break. And so, therefore, we're cautious about encouraging people to return at this mement of history."--Washington, D.C., September 19, 2005

"We can come together to heal whatever wounds may exist, whatever residuals there may be."--Washington, D.C., December 18, 2000

"I'm the master of low expectations."--aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003

"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods."--Austin, Texas, December 20, 2000

"I'll be glad to talk about ranching, but I haven't seen the movie. I've heard about it. I hope you go--you know--I hope you go back to the ranch and the farm is what I am about to say."--explaining that he hasn't yet seen Brokeback Mountain, Manhattan, KS, January 23, 2006

"That's why I went to the Congress last September and proposed fundamental--supplemental funding, which is money for armor and body parts and ammunition and fuel."--Erie, Pennsylvania, September 4, 2004

"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

"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, CT, June 9, 2000

"I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs."--Orlando, Florida, September 12, 2003

"Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house--he's lost his entire house--there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch.'"--during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Mobile, Alabama, September 3, 2005

"I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them.'"--Washington, D.C., December 18, 2000

"I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place were people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed by the atmosphere. And they say, "man, you're looking pretty.'"--Washington, D.C., November 4, 2004

"Poople say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so my mentoring a child; by going into a shut-ins house and say I love you."--Washington, D.C., September 19, 2002

"I talked about making the death tax permanent so that Rolf can pass his assets from---to a family member if he so chooses."--after meeting with small business owners, O'Fallon, Missouri, March 18, 2002

"I can't wait to join you in the joy of welcoming neighbors back into neighborhoods, and small businesses up and running, and cutting those ribbons that somebody is creating new jobs."--Poplarville, Mississippi, September 5, 2005

"I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness of America. But the true greatness of America are the people."--visiting the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C., July 2, 2001

"You took an oath to defend our flag and our freedom, and you kept that oath underseas and under fire."--addressing war veterans, Washington, D.C., January 10, 2006

"We want to develop defenses that are capable of defending ourselves and defenses capable of defending others."--Washington, D.C., January 10, 2006

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."--Saginaw, Michigan, September 29, 2000

"So please give cash money to organizations that are directly involved in helping save lives--save the life who had been affected by Hurricane Katrina."--Washington, D.C., September 6, 2005

"I mean if you've ever been a governor of a state, you understand the vast potential of broadband technology, you understand how hard it is to make sure that physics, for example, is taught in every classroom in the state. It's difficult to do. It's, like, cost-prohibitive."--Washington, D.C., June 24, 2004

"He's kind of a ---probably feeling his oats pretty good about that time."--describing the moment when Rabbi Mark Borovitz met his wife, Harriet; Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 3, 2004

"A submarine could take this place out."--surveying the Arkansas River while visiting the Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, Novermber 18, 2004; as quoted in The Guardian (London)

"As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself--not here at the hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a little scratch."--after visiting with wounded veterans from the Amputee Care Center of Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, January 1, 2006

"The march to war affected the people's confidence. It's hard to make investment. See, if you're a small-business owner or a large-business owner and you're thinking about investing, you've got to be optimistic when you invest. Except when you're marching to war it's not a very optimistic thought is it? In other words it's the opposite of optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war."--Springfield, MO, February 9, 2004

"The best place for the facts to be done is by somebody who's spending time investigating it."--expressing hope that the probe into how CIA agent Valerie Plame's indeintity was leaked will yield answers, Washington, D.C., July 18, 2005

"Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about."--St. Louis, MO, October 18, 2000

"There may be some tough times here in America. But this country has gone through tough times before, and we're going to do it again."--Waco, Texas, August 13, 2002

"These people don't have tanks. They don't have ships. They hide in caves. They send suiciders out."--speaking about terrorists, Portsmouth, NH, November 1, 2002

"My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the--in the Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen."--Crawford, Texas, August 13, 2001

"This is a nation that loves our freedom, loves our country."--Washington, D.C., May 17, 2002

"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 Associated Press, August 11, 2000

"If you found somebody that had information about an attack on America, you'd want to know as best as we can to find out what the facts are."--Philadelphia, PA, December 12, 2005

"I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend."--on the prospect of visiting Denmark, Washington, D.C., June 29, 2005

"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, interview with Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball, May 31, 2000

"The way I like to put it is this. There's no bigger issue for the president to remind the moms and dads of America, if you happen to have a child, be fotunate to have a child."--Washington, D.C., March 7, 2001

"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your quesition."--in response to a quesiton about whether he wished he could take back any of his answers in the first debate, Reynoldsburg, Ohio, October 4, 2000

"The budget caps were busted, mightily so. and we are reviewing with people like Judd Gregg from New Hampshire and others some budgetary reform measures that will reinstate--you know, possibly reinstate budgetary discipline. But the caps no longer--the caps, I guess they're there. But they didn't mean much."--Washington, D.C., February 5, 2001

"I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome."--on the reception of American forces in Iraq, Philadelphia, PA, December 12, 2005

"God loves you and I love you. And you can count on both of us as a powerful message that people who wonder about their future can hear."--Los Angeles, CA, March 3, 2004

"I was going to say he's a piece of work but that might not translate too welll. Is that all right, if I call you a piece of work?"--to Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg, Washington, D.C., June 30, 2005

"You're fine. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it'll take time to restore chaos and order--order out of chaos. But we will."--Washington, D.C., April 13, 2003

"One year ago today, the time for excuse-making has come to an end."--Washington, D.C., January 8, 2003

"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 opinion."--as quoted by Molly Ivins in the San Francisco Chronicle, January 21, 2000

"But I also made it clear to [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe."--Washington, D.C., May 1, 2001

"They've seen me make decisions, they've seen me under trying times, the've seen me weep, they've seen me laugh, they've seen me hug. And they know who I am, and I believe they're comfortable with the fact that they know I'm not giong to shift principles or shift positions based upon polls and focus groups."--Interview with USA Today, August 27, 2004

"The trial lawyers are very politically powerful...But here in Texas we took them on and got some good medical...medical malpractice."--Waco, Texas, August 13, 2003

"You see, not only did the attacks help accelerate a recession, the attacks reminded us that we are at war."--Washington, D.C., June 8, 2005

"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, D.C., April 10, 2001

"Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican."--declining to answer reporters' questions at the Summit of the Americas, Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001

"We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans."--Scranton, Pennsylvania, September 5, 2000

"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, Ohio, July 1, 2000

"They said, 'You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the people.' And I said, 'You know something? Whether it resignates or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work.'"--Portland, Oregon, October 31, 2000

"There's nothing more deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist. That's the most deep thought of all...I can't think of anything more deep than that right."--Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002

"Think about that. Two hundred and eighty-five new or expanded programs. $2 trillion more in new spending, and not one new bureaucrat to file out the forms or answer the phones!"--Minneapolis, MN, November 2, 2000

"So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, congratulations."--remarks to the University of Nebraska Women's volleyball team, the 2001 national champions, Washington, D.C., May 31, 2001

I'm also honored to be here with the Speaker of the House--just happens to be from the state of Illinois. "I'd like to describe the Speaker as a trustworthy man. He's the kind of fellow who says when he gives you his word he means it. Sometimes that doesn't happen all the time in the political process."--Chicago, Illinois, March 6, 2001

"We're spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal?"--Washington, D.C., June 8, 2005

"[A]s you know, these are open forums, you're able to come and listen to what I have to say."--Washington, D.C., October 28, 2003

"It's very iinteresting when you think about it, the slaves who left here to go to America, because of their steadfast and their religion and their belief in freedom, helped change America."--Dakar, Senegal, July 8, 2003

"There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it."--to Catholic leaders at the White House, January 31, 2001

"Anyway, after we go out and work our hearts out, after you go out and help us turn out the vote, after we've convinced the good Americans to vote, and while they're at it, pull that old George W. lever, if I'm the one, when I put my hand on the Bible, when I put my hand on the Bible, that day when they swear us in, when I put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not--to uphold the laws of the land."--Toledo, Ohio, October 27, 2000

"Many of the punditry--of course, not you--but other punditry were quick to say, no one is going to follow the United States of America."--Washington, D.C., January 21, 2003

"And so, in my State of the--my State of the Union--or state--my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation--I asked Americans to give four thousand years--four thousand hours over the next--the rest of your life--of service to America. That's what I asked--four thousand hours."--Bridgeport, CT, April 9, 2002

"I'm not a very good novelist. But it'd make a pretty interesting novel."--Austin, TX, December 5, 2000

"I've coined new words, like, 'misunderstanding' and 'Hispanically.'"-Radio and Television Correspondence Dinner, Washington, D.C., March 29, 2001

"Governor, thank you very much. I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport."-Arlington, Virginia, October 2, 2001

"She's just trying to make sure Anthony gets a god meal--Antonio."--on Laura Bush inviting U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia to dinner at the White House, NBC Nightly News, January 14, 2001

"I think younger workers---first of all younger workers have been promised benefits the government--promises that have been promised, benefits that we can't keep. That's just the way it is."--Washington, D.C., May 4, 2005

"Washington is a town where there's all kinds of allegations. You've heard much of the allegations. And if people have got solid information please come forward with it. And that would be people inside the information who are the so-called anonymous sources, or people outside the administration--Chicago, Illinois, September 30, 2003

"You saw the president yesterday. I thought he was very forward-leaning, as they say in diplomatic nuanced circles."--referring to his meeting with Russain president Vladimir Putin, Rome, Italy, July 23, 2001

"I think we agree, the past is over."--on his meeting with Senator John McCain as quoted in The Dalllas Morning News, May 10, 2000

"The reason I believe in a large tax cut is because it's what I believe."--Washington, D.C., December 18 , 2000

"Arbolist...Look up the word. I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees."--as quoted in USA Today, August 21, 2001

"If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all."--remarks to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund Institute, Washington, D.C., May 22, 2001

"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."--On CBS's 60 Minutes II, December 5, 2000

"I would have my secretary of Treasury be in touch with the financial centers, not only here but at home."--Boston, Massachusetts, October 3, 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."--Florence, South Carolina, February 17, 2000

"You might want to comment on that, Honorable."--to New Jersey Secretary of State, the Honorable DeForest B. Soaries, as quoted by Dana Milbank in The Washington Post, July 15, 2000

"I'm confident we can work with Congress to come up with an economic stimulus package that will send a clear signal to the risk-takers and capital formators of our country."--Washington, D.C., September 17, 2001

"So community colleges are accessible, they're available, they're affordable, and their curriculums don't get stuck. In other words, if there's a need for a certain kind of worker, I presume your curriculums evolved over time."--Niceville, Florida, August 10, 2004

"We got people working all their life at hard work, contributing by payroll taxes into a Social Security system."--Washington, D.C., May 13, 2005

"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who the were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who they are, but we know they're there."--Iowa Western Community College, Council Bluffs, Iowa, January 21, 2000

"I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same questions: How'd your meeting go with so-and-so?....How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address--state of the budget address, whatever you call it."--interview with the Washington Post, March 9, 2001

"I didn't join the International Criminal Court because I don't want to put our troops in the hands of prosecutors from other nations. Look, if somebody has done some wrong in our military, we'll take care of it. We got plenty of capability for dealing with justice."--Niceville, Florida, August 10, 2004

"I know something about being a government. And you've got a good one."--stumping for Gov. Mike Huckabee, Bentonville, Arkansas, November 4, 2002

"Any time we've got any kind of inkling that somebody is thinkng about doing something to an American and something to our homeland, you've just got to know we're moving on it, to protect the United Nations Constitution, and at the same time, we're protecting you."--Aberdeen, South Dakota, October 31, 2002

"Bin Laden says his own role is to tell Muslims, quote, 'what is good for them and what is not.'"--Washington, D.C., October 6, 2005

"The suicide bombings have increased. There's too many of them."--Albuquerque, NM, August 16, 2001

"I mean, I read the newspaper. I mean, I can tell you what the headlines are. I must confess, if I think the story is, like, not a fair appraisal, I'll move on. But I know what the story's about."--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 12, 2005

"We'll be a great country where the fabrics are made up of groups and loving centers."--Kalamazoo, MI, March 27, 2001

"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."--Greece, New York, May 24, 2005

"Oftentimes, we live in a processed world--you know, people focus on the process and not results."--Washington, D.C., May 29, 2003

"See, without the tax-relief package, there would have been a deficit, but there wouldn't have been the commiserate---not 'commiserate'--the kick to our economy that occurred as a result of the tax relief." --Washington, D.C., December 15, 2003

"The Senate needs to have enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a person's race." --Washington, D.C., April 5, 2001

"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." --speaking about Rudy Giuliani on The Edge with Paula Zahn, May 18, 2000

"There are some monuments where the land is so widespread, they just encompass as much as possible. And the integral part of the--the precious part, so to speak--I guess all land is precious, but the part that the people uniformily would not want to spoil, will not be despoiled. But there are parts of the monument lands where we can explore without affecting the overall environment. --Washington, D.C., March13, 2001

"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 cuff link."--speaking at Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, WI, March 30, 2000

"They can get in line like those who have been here legally and have been working to become a citizenship in a legal manner."--referring to immigrant workers, Washington, D.C., December 20, 2004

"I was proud the other day when both Republicans and Democrats stood with me in the Rose Garden to announce their support for the clear statement of purpose: You disarm, or we will."--speaking about Saddam Hussein, Manchester, New Hapmshire, October 5, 2002

"Our priorities is our faith."--Greensboro, North Carolina, October 10, 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, Beaufort, South Carolina, February 16, 2000

"It means your own money would grow better than that which the government can make it grow. And that's important."--on what private accounts could do for Social Security funds, Falls Church, Virginia, Apriil, 29, 2005

"But if you've been laid off work, you're 100 percent unemployed, and I worry about it."--Green Bay, WI, September 3, 2001

"And most importantly, Alma Powell, secretary of Colin Powell, is with us."--Washington, D.C., January 30, 2003

"But Iraq has--have got people there that are willing to kill, and they're hard-nosed killers. And we will work with the Iraqis to secure their future." --Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005

"The important question is how many hands have I shake?" --answering a question about why he hasbn't spent more time in New Hampshire, as quoted in The New York Times, October 23, 1999

"[I]t's a myth to think I don't know what's going on. It's a myth to think that I'm not aware that there's opinions that don't agree with mine, because I'm fully aware of that." --Philadelphia, PA, December 12, 2005

"I understand small-business growth, I was one." --as quoted in the New York Daily News, February 19, 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."--Meet the Press, February 13, 2000

"The only think I know about Slovakia is what I learned firsthand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas."--to a Slovakian journalist as quoted by Knight Ridder News Service, June 22, 1999 [Bush's meeting was with Janez Drnovsek, the prime minister of Slovenia]

"Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history--revisionist historians is what I like to call them."--Elizabeth, NJ, June 16, 2003

"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."--Washington, D.C., September 21, 2003

"[W]e've had leaks out of the administration branch, had leaks out of the legislative branch, and out of the executive branch, and the legislative branch, and I've spoken out consistently against them, and I want to know who the leakers are."--Chicago,IL, September 30, 2003

"I mean there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein, you're a threat. And the 9/11 attacks extenuated that threat, as far as I---concerned."-- Philadelphia, PA, December 12, 2005

"See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."--Milwaukee, WI, October 3, 2003

"It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term."-- St. Louis, October 18, 2000

"My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt."--budget address to Congress, February 27, 2001

"Well, we've made the decision to defeat terrorists abroad so we didn't have to face them here at home. And when you engage the terrorists abroad, it causes activity and action."--Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005

"[T]hat's just the nature of democracy. Sometimes pure politics enters into the rhetoric."--Crawford, TX, August 8, 2003

"The public education system in America is one of the most important foundations of our democracy. After all it is where children from all over America learn to be responsible citizens, and learn to have the skills necessary to take advantage of our fantastic opportunistic society."--Santa Clara, CA, May 1, 2002

"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis."--CNBC, April 15, 2000

"Do you have blacks too?"--to Brazilian president Fernando Cardosa, Washington, D.C., November 8, 2001

"He understands the need for a timely write of the constitution."--on former prime minister Iyad Allawi of Iraq, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005

"Well, it's an unimaginable honor to be president during the Fourth of July of this country. It means what these words say, for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We're blessed with such values in America. And I--it's--I'm a proud man to be the naiton based upon such wonderful values."--visiting the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C., July 2, 2001

"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."--quoted in Newsweek, February 28, 2000

"After standing on the stage, after the debates, I made it very plain, we will not have an all-volunteer army. And yet, this week--we will have an all-volunteer army. Let me restate that."--Daytona Beach, Florida, October 16, 2004

"I must confess. It did confuse some of the folks at the Crawford, Texas, coffee shop when I was traveling around the country with Theodore Kennedy."--Chicago, Illinois, May 13, 2002

"Those who enter the country illegally violate the law."--Tucson, Arizona, November 28, 2005

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."--Nashua, Hew Hampshire, January 27, 2000

"For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times."--Tokyo, Japan, February 18, 2002

"The folks who conducted to act on our country on September 11 made a big mistake. They underestimated America. They underestimated our resolve, our determination, our love for freedom. They misunderestimated the fact that we love a neighbor in need. They misunderestimated the compassion of our country. I think they misunderestimated the will and determination of the commander in chief, too ."--Langley, Virginiak September 26, 2001

"I want to thank you for coming to the White House to give me an opportunity to urge you to work with these five senators and three congressman, to work hard to get this trade promotion authority moving. The power that be, well most of the power that be, sits right here."--Washington, D.C., June