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
"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 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
"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." (Dieciséis de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
-Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000 (Thanks to numerous readers.)
"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.
"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.)
"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
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.)
"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.
"Keep good relations with the Grecians."
-Quoted in the Economist, June 12, 1999
"It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then."
-From a 1994 interview, as quoted in First Son, by Bill Minutaglio
"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
"I understand small business growth. I was one."
-New York Daily News, Feb. 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."
-ibid
"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
"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
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