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

“Some people come up to me and say: "You speak like a mad parrot with Alzheimer's and there is potato peel floating down the Mississippi that would be a better president than you" and you know what? I agree!”

~ George Bush on mad parrots

“I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.”

~ George Bush on the difficulty of putting food on one’s family

“They misunderestimated me.”

~ George Bush on people misunderestimating him

“More and more of America's imports are coming from abroad.”

~ George Bush on the economy

“Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better.”

~ George Bush on border relations

“There is an old saying in Tennessee--I know it's in Texas, probably Tennessee that says "fool me once, shame on-shame on you, fool me twice...you can't get fooled again."”

~ George Bush on What?

“Some people come up to me and say: "You speak like a mad parrot with Alzheimer's and there is potato peel floating down the Mississippi that would be a better president than you" and you know what? I agree!”

~ George Bush on mad parrots

“We need to counter the shockwave of the evildoer by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates.”

~ George Bush on countering evildoers

“We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.”

~ George Bush on energy

“It's your money, you paid for it.”

~ George Bush on money