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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“The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.”

~ George Bush on California energy crisis

“I am a bulldog on the pantleg of opportunity.”

~ George Bush on opportunity

“Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is--I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president.”

~ George Bush on death tax

“There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.”

~ George Bush on metaphorical storm clouds

“It is my job to make decisions; I am the decider.”

~ George Bush on deciding

“Bill wrote a book at Yale. I read one.”

~ George Bush on William F. Buckley

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

~ George Bush on the woman who he never interviewed

“The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.”

~ George Bush on branches of government

“This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table.”

~ George Bush on attacking Iran

“I am a bulldog on the pantleg of opportunity.”

~ George Bush on opportunity

“But I also made it clear to (Vladimir Putin) that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.”

~ George Bush on mutually assured destruction