Unquotable:George W. Bush

George W. Bush is widely regarded as one of the greatest masters of the English language in modern times. Below are a few of his most famous words of wisdom, randomly selected from the list of approximately 186,000. to see a different selection.

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“It's negative to think about blowing each other up. That's not a positive thought. That's a Cold War thought. That's a thought when people were enemies with each other.”

~ George Bush on the Cold War

“Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, uh, you can't get fooled again...”

~ George Bush on Nursery Rhymes

“Don't forget Poland.”

~ George Bush on the Coalition of the Willing

“They misunderestimated me.”

~ George Bush on people misunderestimating him

“The woman who knew that I had dyslexia--I never interviewed her.”

~ George Bush on the woman who he never interviewed

“First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill.”

~ George Bush on poor people

“Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.”

~ George Bush on peacekeeping

“There are Muslims in China? Does that mean there's genies? I wish I had a pony.”

~ George Bush on Islam

“For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it.”

~ George Bush on nonfatal shootings

“Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.”

~ George Bush on families

“I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah.”

~ George Bush on Hannukah