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

~ George Bush on William F. Buckley

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

~ George Bush on Islam

“I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war.”

~ George Bush on parenting

“Arbolist - Look up the word. I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.”

~ George Bush on people who know about trees

“It's unacceptable to think.”

~ George Bush on thought

“Jet fuel can't melt steel beams.”

~ George Bush on terrorism

“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?

“We will make sure our troops have all that is necessary to complete their missions. That's why I went to the Congress last September and proposed fundamental — supplemental funding, which is money for armor and body parts and ammunition and fuel.”

~ George Bush on Body parts

“The only way to protect freedom is to destroy it sometimes. Doesn't that make sense to you, or are you with the terrorists?”

~ George Bush on Freedom

“First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.”

~ George Bush on Kyoto treaty

“We've got hundreds of sites to exploit, looking for the chemical and biological weapons that we know Saddam Hussein had prior to our entrance into Iraq.”

~ George Bush on WMDs