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George Dubya, in his own words... "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 "Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes." - Meet the Press, April 15, 2000 "I don't want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on the bus 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of bands?" - Newsweek, Feb. 28, 2000 "It is not up to the president to decide right from wrong." - First debate with Gore, Oct. 3, 2000 (Thanks to Tomm Looney) "People walk up to me all the time and say, 'Don't let us down again!' " - Closing remarks during first debate with Gore, Oct. 3, 2000. (Tomm Looney) "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." - Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000 "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.) "I think we agree, the past is over." - On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000 "Keep good relations with the Grecians." - Quoted in the Economist, June 12,1999 "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 GOV. BUSH: " ... I talked to my little brother, Jeb - I haven't told this to many people. But he's the governor of - I shouldn't call him my little brother - my brother, Jeb, the great governor of Texas." JIM LEHRER: Florida. GOV. BUSH: Florida. The state of the Florida. The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, April 27, 2000 Bush: "First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's diez e seis de Septiembre, and ..." Matthews: "What's that in English?" Bush: "Fifteenth of September." (Diez e seis de Septiembre = Sept. 16!!!) Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000 (Thanks to numerous Leaders.) "Unfairly but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against things. Anti-immigrant, for example. Andwe're not a party of anti -immigrants. Quite the opposite. We're a party that welcomes people." Cleveland, July 1, 2000 (Thanks to M. Bateman.) "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, Hardball, MSNBC; May 31, 2000 "I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking." - Salinas, Calif, Aug. 10, 2000 (Thanks to Kris Sester.) "You might want to comment on that, Honorable." - To New Jersey's secretary of state, the Hon. DeForest Soaries Jr., as quoted by Dana Milbank in the Washington Post, July 15, 2000 "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

-- Anonymous, December 30, 2000

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The Link to SHRUBONICS here

George Dubya, in his own words...

"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

"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes." - Meet the Press, April 15, 2000

"I don't want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on the bus 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of bands?" - Newsweek, Feb. 28, 2000

"It is not up to the president to decide right from wrong." - First debate with Gore, Oct. 3, 2000 (Thanks to Tomm Looney)

"People walk up to me all the time and say, 'Don't let us down again!' " - Closing remarks during first debate with Gore, Oct. 3, 2000. (Tomm Looney)

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." - Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000

"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.)

"I think we agree, the past is over." - On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000

"Keep good relations with the Grecians." - Quoted in the Economist, June 12,1999

"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

GOV. BUSH: " ... I talked to my little brother, Jeb - I haven't told this to many people. But he's the governor of - I shouldn't call him my little brother - my brother, Jeb, the great governor of Texas." JIM LEHRER: Florida. GOV. BUSH: Florida. The state of the Florida. The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, April 27, 2000

Bush: "First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's diez e seis de Septiembre, and ..." Matthews: "What's that in English?" Bush: "Fifteenth of September." (Diez e seis de Septiembre = Sept. 16!!!) Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000 (Thanks to numerous Leaders.)

"Unfairly but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against things. Anti-immigrant, for example. Andwe're not a party of anti - immigrants. Quite the opposite. We're a party that welcomes people." Cleveland, July 1, 2000 (Thanks to M. Bateman.)

"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, Hardball, MSNBC; May 31, 2000

"I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking." - Salinas, Calif, Aug. 10, 2000 (Thanks to Kris Sester.)

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

"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

-- Anonymous, December 30, 2000