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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“Don't worry. I'm Great at Basketball. I'm the White Larry Bird.”

~ George Bush on Basketball

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

~ George Bush on Islam

“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

“…the illiteracy level of our children are appalling.”

~ George Bush on Illiteracy

“Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better.”

~ George Bush on border relations

“It's your money, you paid for it.”

~ George Bush on money

“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

“…the illiteracy level of our children are appalling.”

~ George Bush on Illiteracy

“We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.”

~ George Bush on geography

“I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.”

~ George Bush on thinking

“I think it's very important for world leaders to understand that when a new administration comes in, the new administration will be running the foreign policy.”

~ George Bush on new administration