"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas."
— GW Bush; Beaverton, Sep. 25, 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."
— GW Bush, June 16, 2000
"George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God."
— Lt. Gen. William Boykin; the defense undersecretary in charge Iraq operations
"To an old leader will be born an idiot heir,
Weak both in knowledge and in war."
— Nostradamus on Bush? Century 1, Quatrain 78
"Do you have blacks, too?"
— GW Bush; To Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Nov. 8, 2001
"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating."
— GW Bush; U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
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
"America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive."
— Johnny Depp; German magazine 'Stern'
"First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified,
nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country."
— GW Bush; on the Kyoto accord, April 24, 2001
"By simultaneously destabilizing global security in China, Korea, the Middle East
and Russia, by recklessly abrogating the Kyoto climate change treaty, by bullying
his allies in Europe and Asia, by pursuing a tax policy that will turn America into
the most unequal society in modern history, George W. Bush is fully living up
to my expectation that he would become the worst U.S. President since Herbert Hoover."
— Anatole Kaletsky; London Times
"I'd say you're free and freedom is beautiful, but it will take time to restore chaos".
— When asked what he (Bush) would say to the people of Iraq
"There ought to be limits to freedom."
— GW Bush, commenting on the website gwbush.com
"The United States is putting together a Constitution now for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours?
It's served us well for 200 years, and we don't appear to be using it anymore."
— Jay Leno
"It's clearly a budget.
It's got a lot of numbers in it."
— GW Bush; Reuters, May 5, 2000
"Bush himself is the most incompetent and dangerous President in living memory."
— Mark Latham; Australian MP in a parliamentary speech
"The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur."
— GW Bush; in discussion with British Prime Minister Tony Blair
"I don't think witchcraft is a religion. I would hope that the army takes a second look at their position on this."
— GW Bush; Good Morning America
"The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!"
— GW Bush; First presidential debate
"Bush is repellent, a hawk who was a coward, leader of the most corrupt administration
since the Twenties. He’s not a legitimate President."
— Ken Livingstone; Mayor of London, May 8, 2003
"I will look at each piece of legislation when it makes it to my desk,"
and "I will review that when it makes it to my desk."
— GW Bush, refusing to comment on anything before it's absolutely unavoidable
"I mean it is a dictatorship."
— Gore Vidal; referring to the Bush Administration, December 24, 2003
"There is a growing tendency in public opinion to view the US as a rogue state."
— Dominique Moisi; Foreign affairs Analyst, France