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"I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them." --Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 2000
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" --Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program." --St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
"I will do everything in my power to restrict abortions." -- George W. Bush, Dallas Morning News, October 22, 1994
"I saw the report that children in Texas are going hungry. Where? You'd think the governor would have heard if there are pockets of hunger in Texas." -- George W. Bush, whose state ranks 2nd in total number of children living in poverty, to Austin American, Statesman, 12/18/99
" Please," Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, "don't kill me." -- Bush mocking what Karla Faye Tucker said on Larry King when asked, "What would you say to Governor Bush?" prior to her execution by lethal injection as reported by Talk Magazine, September 1999
"Sitting down and reading a 500-page book on public policy or philosophy or something." --Bush naming something he isn't good at, Talk magazine, September 1999.
"What I'm against is quotas. I'm against hard quotas, quotas that basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think, vulcanize society."
-- George W. Bush (Austin American-Statesman 3/23/99)
"It's not the governor's role to decide who goes to heaven. I believe that God decides who goes to heaven, not George W Bush." -- George W. Bush
"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law." --Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
"As far as the legal hassling and wrangling and posturing in Florida, I would suggest you talk to our team in Florida led by Jim Baker." --Crawford, Texas, Nov. 30, 2000
"They misunderestimated me." --Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
"If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I was the dictator." George W. Bush, 1/19/00
"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case." --Pella, Iowa, as quoted by the San Antonio Express-News, Jan. 30, 2000
"They said, 'You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the people.' And I said, you know something? Whether it resignates or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work." --Portland, Ore., Oct. 31, 2000
"...if I'm the one, when I put my hand on the Bible, when I put my hand on the Bible, that day when they swear us in, when I put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not--to uphold the laws of the land." --Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 27, 2000
"That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century." --On the Lewinsky scandal, Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000
"It's going to require numerous IRA agents." --On Gore's tax plan, Oct. 10, 2000
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