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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“I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.”

~ George Bush on man and fish coexisting peacefully

“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

“Make me smarter... very easy. Make me even smarter... you're a good man.”

~ George Bush on sharing information

“The suicide bombings have increased. There's too many of them.”

~ George Bush on suicide bombings

“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

“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

“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

“It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.”

~ George Bush on the budget

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

~ George Bush on parenting

“Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?”

~ George Bush on Education

“I'm the master of low expectations.”

~ George Bush on low expectations