Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Carroll

If Reggie Bush didn't show it today, I don't know what the heck else he has to do. What an incredible job of seizing the moment by him in the last couple of weeks.

Pat Buchanan

If you get into the debates in a free-wheeling forum with Mr. Gore -- who I think the country doesn't want but he's stronger than you think -- and Mr. Bush -- who is going to have a tough year -- and we're in three debates together, I think I can win the presidency.

Larry Sabato

If you look at the polls carefully, they show that Americans are disaffected with the Bush administration policy in Iraq, but have very little confidence in the Democrats on that score either.

I don't know if they'd do it, but I would. I wouldn't want $24 million locked up in one guy who is a knee injury away. They aren't going to take a quarterback, so their choice is Reggie Bush or a trade. And if they do decide to trade, there will be many teams who covet that pick.

If not, we have trouble in River City, ... You wouldn't want Bush to step in right away -- you'd hope you go back and see if there's something that can be changed to win approval. It's never good to have a contract imposed.

I flew down to Crawford from California. I made it convenient for him. If George Bush wants to meet with a group of hand-picked families who share his politics, then he's still in denial.

Adam Michnik

If I were American I would never have voted for Reagan, but as a Pole, I liked the tough position of Reagan toward Brezhnev. Perhaps Reagan did not quite understand what he was doing, and maybe Bush doesn't understand either.

LenDale White

I have no clue at all what's going on. You've got Bush on the team and that's what happens.

Natalie Maines

I'm not truly embarrassed that, you know, President Bush is from my state, that's not really what I care about, ... Primetime Thursday.

I'm hoping that Senator Daschle went home over the holidays, listened to the people and decided that President Bush may be right about the need for an economic security package,

Jim Sensenbrenner

In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President.

In particular, if another Bush government moves on to Iran, then oil prices would go very high and really threaten China's economic development.

I reject outright the suggestion that president Bush was anything less than fully involved.

Dick Gephardt

Clearly, the election is going to be won in the Midwest and the Rust Belt, places where President Bush has been campaigning -- Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio -- places very similar to Iowa.

Dimitri Simes

Clearly, the Bush administration is going to welcome her with open arms. She is not Schroeder, and that is a welcome change.

Al Sharpton

Clearly Bush has become that, especially after Katrina, ... We've gone from fire hoses to levees.

Claims like the one that Bush will be the first president to end a term with fewer jobs than when he started are nothing more than 'myths.'

His criticisms of Washington, of the Bush administration for being too ideologically conservative, and its policies in Iraq and its failures in dealing with Hurricane Katrina, are likely to resonate with many New Jersey unaffiliated voters.

Calderon largely is going to sink or swim on Fox's record. The more (President) Bush makes Fox look like he got nothing from this stronger relationship he wanted with the U.S., the harder it will be for Calderon.

Dick Cheney

By the time President Bush finishes his tour I'd be 68 and, given my health history, I think it's unlikely that I would ever be a candidate myself,

Larry Sabato

But his greatest problem is that it is hard to see him as offering voters anything other than George W. Bush's third term. And even Bush Republicans realize that the American people don't want that.

But I don't think switch grass is on anybody's radar. Until President Bush said it in the State of the Union address, nobody knew what it was.

John Kasich

But I really don't have any comments about the whole thing. This is up to Governor Bush to decide, and it's just that simple.

But the visit of President Bush has been, in my view, a success and it has been a good visit.

But the Bush administration is treating him with respect and goodwill. We consider this to be an important development in Taiwan's relations with the U.S.

Mark Zandi

Bush will paint Kerry as being a tax-and-spend liberal and Kerry will paint bush as only providing tax cuts for the rich.

Bush will be there to show that the rest of the world is still interested in this peace process and to kick it along.

Bush was playing to a very, very domestic agenda. It's just rhetoric.

Eric Davis

Bush was in trouble even before Katrina. He was losing support on Iraq , people were worried about the economy -- even if the objective data don't necessarily support that -- and Katrina exacerbated all of that.

Bush wants to strengthen relations with China, but he is politically weak at the moment. For political reasons, we feel we need to help Bush.

Bush wants the economy to be in vibrant shape by then. He's not going to be able to say that a recalcitrant Democratic-controlled Senate screwed this up, after all.

Kurt Vonnegut

Bush used that line recently. I should sue him for plagiarism.

Howard Kurtz

Bush used a version of the same technique: 'I heard somebody say, well, maybe so-and-so is not patriotic because they disagree with my position. I totally reject that thought.' Somebody? So-and-so? Who could he be referring to?