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

~ George Bush on Hannukah

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

~ George Bush on Basketball

“I have made good judgements in the past, I have made good judgements in the future.”

~ George Bush on Time Travel

“It's your money, you paid for it.”

~ George Bush on money

“I'm the master of low expectations.”

~ George Bush on low expectations

“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

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”

~ George Bush on harming our country

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

~ George Bush on Illiteracy

“Well, when you think about autism, you have to think about...you have to think, what is it that makes these children not do what they're not supposed to do when they're not doing it? And when you ask that preposition, that's when you know you're retarded.”

~ George Bush on autism

“The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.”

~ George Bush on California energy crisis

“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