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"We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.''
"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together." --Bartlett, Tenn., Aug. 18, 2000
"They [farmers] will be in the forethought of our thinking." --Salinas, Calif., Aug. 10, 2000
"This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot." --Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 23, 2000 (Thanks to Johnny Green.)
"The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty ... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas." All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000 (Thanks to Andy Nouraee.)
"I'm gonna talk about the ideal world, Chris. I've read--I understand reality. If you're asking me as the president, would I understand reality, I do." --On abortion, Hardball, MSNBC; May 31, 2000
"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating." --U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000 (Thanks to Alfred Stanley, Austin, Texas.)
"Actually, I--this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about--when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me."
"I think we agree, the past is over." --On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." --Reuters, May 5, 2000 (Thanks to Allison Fansler.)
GOV. BUSH: Because the picture on the newspaper. It just seems so un-American to me, the picture of the guy storming the house with a scared little boy there. I talked to my little brother, Jeb--I haven't told this to many people. But he's the governor of--I shouldn't call him my little brother--my brother, Jeb, the great governor of Texas.
JIM LEHRER: Florida.
GOV. BUSH: Florida. The state of the Florida. --The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, April 27, 2000
"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis." --Meet the Press, April 15, 2000
"You subscribe politics to it. I subscribe freedom to it." --Responding to a question about whether he and Al Gore were making the Elián González case a political issue. In Palm Beach, Fla., as quoted by the Associated Press, April 6, 2000 (Thanks to Helen Kennedy.)
"I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California." --In Los Angeles as quoted by the Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000
"Reading is the basics for all learning." --Announcing his "Reading First" initiative in Reston, Va., March 28, 2000 (Thanks to Carl LaRocca.)
"Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads." --Fund-raising letter from George W. Bush, quoted in the Washington Post, March 24, 2000
"I worry. I'm very worried about, you know, the kid who just wonders whether America is meant for him. I really worry about that. And uh, so, I'm running for a reason." --Interview with the Washington Post, March 23, 2000
"It's evolutionary, going from governor to president, and this is a significant step, to be able to vote for yourself on the ballot, and I'll be able to do so next fall, I hope." --In an interview with the Associated Press, March 8, 2000 (Thanks to Joshua Micah Marshall.)
"I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants." --Today, Feb. 23, 2000
"I understand small business growth. I was one." --New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000
"He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road." --To reporters in Florence, S.C., Feb. 17, 2000
"I'm very gracious and humbled." --To Cokie Roberts, This Week, Feb. 20, 2000
"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign." --Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000
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