HERE IS THE GENIUS OF BUSH
"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."
Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
Reuters, May 5, 2000
"I think we agree, the past is over."
On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News,
May 10, 2000
"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."
Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000
"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 cufflink."
Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, March 30, 2000
"The fact that he relies on facts -- says things that are not
factual -- are going to undermine his campaign."
New YorkTimes, March 4, 2000
"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton
in nature."
Los Angeles, 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
"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,
Beaufort, S.C.,
Feb. 16, 2000
"We ought to make the pie higher."
South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 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, Feb. 13, 2000
"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, 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 in 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
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen
and uncertainty and potential mental 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."
At a South Carolina oyster roast, as quoted in the
Financial Times, Jan.14, 2000
"There needs to be debates, like we're going through.
There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge
country."
Larry King Live, Dec. 16, 1999
"The important question is, How many hands have shaked?"
Answering a question about why he hasn't spent more
time in NewHampshire, In the New York Times, Oct. 23, 1999
"Keep good relations with the Grecians."
Quoted in the Economist, June 12, 1999
