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"Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure." --ibid.
"How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?" --Explaining the need for educational accountability in Beaufort, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000
"We ought to make the pie higher." --South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000
"I've changed my style somewhat... I'm more interacting with people." --ibid
"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
"How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?" --Explaining the need for educational accountability in Beaufort, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000
"We ought to make the pie higher." --South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000
"I've changed my style somewhat... I'm more interacting with people." --ibid
"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" --Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve." --Speaking during "Perseverance Month"
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