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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“There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's like.”

~ George Bush on hugging widows and mothers

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

~ George Bush on the economy

“It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.”

~ George Bush on the unlikelihood of his being elected to his first term

“We can't afford mexed missages in the long worm!”

~ George W. Bush on worms

“I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft.”

~ George Bush on Internets

“Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop'.”

~ George Bush on his dreams

“This is W.W. Bush”

~ George Bush on picking up the phone

“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

“My answer is bring them on.”

~ George Bush on the strategy for fighting the insurgency

“Did y'all watch the game last night?”

~ George Bush on the game last night