I think we all agree, the past is over.
The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.
Yo Blair, how are you doin’? When left their microphone on by mistake
This is an impressive crowd — the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elites; I call you my base. Speech at the Al Smith Dinner for charity (October 20, 2000)
First, I recognize we live in a momentous time. For those of you watching, we seem to have a mechanical flaw.
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. Upon signing a US$417 billion defense spending bill
That makes sense to me, doesn't it?
Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
There ought to be limits to freedom.
I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is misunderestimating.
See, the irony is, what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over. When left their microphone on by mistake
We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two. And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them. May 29, 2003
I don't know why you're talking about Sweden. They're the neutral one. They don't have an army. In a December 2002 Oval Office meeting, after Congressman Tom Lantos suggested the Swedish Army as a peacekeeping force for the West Bank and Gaza Strip
I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
These are challenging times... and they're straining the psyche of our country. Nobody wants to turn on their TV on a daily basis and see havoc wrought by terrorists.
You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier... So long as I'm the dictator. Responding to the difficulties of governing Texas, "The Taming of Texas," Governing Magazine (July 1998); also cited in Is our Children Learning?: The Case Against George W. Bush (2000) by Paul Begala.)