Bushism’s, I’m glad you are sitting down,

"Make no mistake about it, I understand how tough it is, sir. I talk to families who die." --George W. Bush
"You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war President. No President wants to be a war President, but I am one." --George W. Bush
"I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is -- my point is, there's a strong will for democracy." --George W. Bush
"The Patriot Act has increased the flow of information within our government and it has helped break up terrorist cells in the United States of America. And the United States Congress was right to renew the terrorist act -- the Patriot Act." --George W. Bush
"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." --George W. Bush
"I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?" --George W. Bush, asked if the tide was turning in Iraq
President Bush: "Peter. Are you going to ask that question with shades on?"Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times: "I can take them off."Bush: "I'm interested in the shade look, seriously."Wallsten: "All right, I'll keep it, then."Bush: "For the viewers, there's no sun."Wallsten: "I guess it depends on your perspective."Bush: "Touche.--an exchange with legally blind reporter Peter Wallsten, to whom Bush later apologized, Washington
"You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone." --George W. Bush
"The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany." --George W. Bush
"You took an oath to defend our flag and our freedom, and you kept that oath underseas and under fire." --George W. Bush
"The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th." --George W. Bush
"I'm going to try to see if I can remember as much to make it sound like I'm smart on the subject." --George W. Bush
"This process has been drug out a long time, which says to me it's political." --George W. Bush
"There's a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say." --George W. Bush
"My relationship with this good man is where I've been focused, and that's where my concentration is. And I don't regret any other aspect of it. And so I -- we filled a lot of space together." --George W. Bush
"Information is moving -- you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it's also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets." --George W. Bush
"And so, what Gen. Petraeus is saying, some early signs, still dangerous, but give me -- give my chance a plan to work." --George W. Bush
"There are jobs Americans aren't doing. ... If you've got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what I'm talking about." --George W. Bush
"I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times." --George W. Bush
"My job is a job to make decisions. I'm a decision -- if the job description were, what do you do -- it's decision maker." --George W. Bush
"Iraq is a very important part of securing the homeland, and it's a very important part of helping change the Middle East into a part of the world that will not serve as a threat to the civilized world, to people like -- or to the developed world, to people like -- in the United States." --George W. Bush
"And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it." --George W. Bush
"I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality." --George W. Bush
"Anybody who is in a position to serve this country ought to understand the consequences of words." --George W. Bush

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