Famous Quotes & Sayings

We had a lawful election. We've had a certification of that election, and the only way that the Bush electors would be de-certified is if the courts finally declare Al Gore the winner, ... So we're really talking about an insurance policy for George Bush. It's a win-win situation for him.

We kind of let the dog lead the way and it probably sniffed every tree and bush in the neighborhood.

Sherwin B. Nuland

Though President George W. Bush made some small noises about his intention to present some form of improved health coverage, nothing grew out of them.

It would not surprise me, ... just given how much President Bush defers to Rumsfeld on every issue. The president might see this as a vote of no-confidence in Rumsfeld. The surprise would be if he does sign off on it.

John Edward

It would be worth his weight in gold if George Bush would spend one day of his presidency doing what I've been doing every single day, out there listening to voters.

Howard Dean

I understand it?s always better to have a lot of passion around an election. But what more passion could we possibly invoke than stopping George Bush from continuing to destroy the country?

Neil Young

I understand we've got like a Bush subordinate in there now. That's unfortunate. But he's got a minority, right? So we can get rid of him pretty soon.

I urge the Israelis to understand that we need to continue talking. I also urge the good office of President Bush to exert every possible effort to resume the contacts.

Joe Lieberman

I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

Edward Kennedy

The victims of Katrina have lost everything, and now President Bush says it is OK for them to lose their fair wages, too.

The rhetoric over the fiscal stimulus package heated up this weekend, reducing the likelihood of passage, ... In what may become a famous remark, President Bush said that Congress would 'raise taxes over my dead body.'

There will still be trade disputes with the Bush administration, but it's unlikely these disputes will increase. The same goes for human rights.

Hu Jintao

I've told President Bush that the Chinese side will intensify the efforts to protect intellectual property rights and crack down on infringement. We are ready to strengthen cooperation with the United States in this regard,

You have two things going on right now. You have doubts about the course that President Bush has set in Iraq, and you have what seems to be even larger doubts about whether John Kerry can do better.

Harry Reid

to investigate whether Bush administration officials misused intelligence.

Mickey Edwards

The president is always somewhere on the horizon in any midterm election, and in this one it might very well be more than the usual referendum on the president. Bush could be a heavy shadow in this election.

Nigel Hamilton

What George W. Bush learned in his pre-presidential years - and what he omits in his new memoirs - was not how to lead a nation, but how, with sufficient toughness, to cheat the democratic system to get elected.

Arlen Specter

What assurances can you give the Senate and the American people that you will be independent, if confirmed, and not give President Bush any special deference on any matter involving him which might come before the court?

Peter May

What Bush is talking about is a massive economic development effort which speaks as much to the issues of declining industry and declining populations. That raises a whole different set of questions.

Christopher Dodd

Throwing worn-out wallpaper on a cracked foundation just doesn't work. The Bush administration proposal amounts to nothing more than that. Don't solve the problem, just end up with more rhetoric. We need a fundamental change in the way we look at Cuba.

Mike Fitzpatrick

There's no new news -- everybody thinks war is imminent, ... Bush has made it clear we're going. I don't know why you would grasp for shades of meaning.

There's no way back for Bush on Iraq. He can't run away from that policy. He has to secure something he can plausibly point to as success.

The trend in Virginia has merit. It says more if Kilgore wins because it means Bush wasn't the albatross everyone predicted.

The trend in Virginia has merit, ... It says more if Kilgore wins because it means Bush wasn't the albatross everyone predicted.

Jonathan Alter

The Times will not comment on the meeting, but one can only imagine the president?s desperation. The problem was not that the disclosures would compromise national security, as Bush claimed at his press conference. ...No, Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important story?which the paper had already inexplicably held for a year?because he knew that it would reveal him as a law-breaker.

Karl Rove

The United States faces a ruthless enemy - and we need a commander-in-chief and a Congress who understand the nature of the threat and the gravity that American finds itself in. President Bush and the Republican Party do. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for many Democrats.

I spoke to President Bush just a few days ago, ... and told him that I was coming here to be with you and what we were going to do today.

Brian Billick

Is Reggie Bush a 350-carry guy? Probably not. Even if he was, I don't know if you want to do it. You need the balance. From what I've seen of him with the 20 to 25 carries, you don't need him for the other 10. You got a 20-point lead and put the other guy in.

What's gonna happen here is you're going to see a cat and mouse game between Bush and Iraq for some time. I suspect that a month from now we'll be back to where we were yesterday before the letter came out.

Bruce Fein

The problem and the danger of the Bush administration is that they know no limits. It's a total lack of understanding of separation of power and checks and balances.

Phyllis Schlafly

We expected President Bush to appoint a woman with the opposite judicial philosophy and paper trail of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Our disappointment is acute.

We don't usually think of Laura Bush as firing anybody. She is just as loyal as everybody else in the Bush family. So I think it's very unusual.

We're doing all that. We think it's good that Governor Bush wants to continue these programs.