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

~ George Bush on the economy

“It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.”

~ George Bush on the origin of our imports

“I'm occasionally reading, I want you to know, in the second term.”

~ George Bush on reading

“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

“Keep good relations with the Grecians.”

~ George Bush on relations with the Grecians

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

~ George Bush on Hannukah

“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?

“Iran would be dangerous if they have a nuclear weapon.”

~ George Bush on Iran

“I am hereby securing the future of US soldier count in Iraq.”

~ George Bush on aiding pre-schools

“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

“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