Bushisms

President George W Bush has a distinctive, or rather idiosyncratic, or rather really fucking stupid, way of speaking when he is in public. Often, one wonders -- as with his constant mispronunciation of the world nuclear (see nukeler)-- if he is doing it on purpose because he knows it annoys his detractors. Other times, though, you have to wonder if he's just kinda dumb.

Selected Bushisms

- "I understand small business growth. I was one."

- "Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?"

- "There is madmen in the world and there are terror."

- "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world and we knew exactly who 'they' were'. It was us versus them, and it was clear who 'them' was. Today we're not so sure who the 'they' are, but we know they're there."

- "I know how hard it is to put food on your family."

- "A leadership is someone who brings people together."

- "It frightens some in Washington, because they want the federal government controlling Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program."

- "More and more of our imports come from overseas."

- "The key to foreign policy is to rely on reliance."

- "Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods."

- "You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."

- "It means what these words say, for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We're blessed with such values in America. And I -- it's -- I'm a proud man to be the nation based upon such wonderful values. I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness in America. But the true greatness of America are the people."

- "There's nothing more deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist. That's the most deep thought of all. I can't think of anything more deep than that right."

- "And so, in my State of the...my State of the Union -- or state -- my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation, I asked Americans to give four thousand years -- four thousand hours over the next...the rest of your life of service to America."

- "There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says 'fool me once, shame on...shame on you. You fool me...can't get fooled again."

- "We'll be a country where the fabrics are made up of groups and loving centers."

- "We've got pockets of persistent poverty in our society which I refuse to declare defeat."

- "The reason I believe in a large tax cut because it's what I believe."

- "There are people that hide in caves -- they hide in kind of the dark corners of society, and they use suiciders as their forward army."

- "See, we love...we love freedom. That's what they didn't understand. They hate things, we love things. They act out of hatred. We don't seek revenge, we seek justice out of love."

- "These are the folks that have hijacked a great religion and then take innocent life. And that's a huge difference between America."

- "We've got an issue in America. Too many good docs are getting out of business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country."

- "Make the pie higher."

(Sources: politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushism; The George W. Bush Quiz Book by Paul Slansky.)