"Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? That's interesting. I hadn't heard that." -- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2008 (AP/Gerald Herbert)
"As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured." -- George W. Bush, on the No Child Left Behind Act, Washington, D.C., Sept. 26, 2007 (AP/Gerald Herbert)`
"I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it." -- George W. Bush, Crawford, Texas, Nov. 10, 2007 (AP/Charles Dharapak)
"Removing Saddam Hussein was the right decision early in my presidency, it is the right decision now, and it will be the right decision ever." -- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 12, 2008 (AP/Ron Edmonds)
"Let me start off by saying that in 2000 I said, 'Vote for me. I'm an agent of change.' In 2004, I said, 'I'm not interested in change --I want to continue as president.' Every candidate has got to say 'change.' That's what the American people expect." -- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 5, 2008 (AP/Ron Edmonds)
?There?s an old?saying in Tennessee?I know it?s in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says Fool me once?(3 second pause)? Shame on?(4 second pause)?Shame on you?.(6 second pause)?Fool me?Can?t get fooled again.? -- George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002. (AP/Ron Edmonds)
"There's a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say." -- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 17, 2007 (AP/Charles Dharapak)
"What I'm telling you is there's too many junk lawsuits suing too many doctors." -- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 10, 2007 (AP/Charles Dharapak)
"We're kicking ass." -- George W. Bush, on the security situation in Iraq, to Australian Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile, Sydney, Australia, Sept. 5, 2007 (AP/Ron Edmonds)
"I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas." -- George W. Bush, on the former South African president, who is still very much alive, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007 (AP/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." -- George W. Bush, Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000 (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
?See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don?t attack each other. Free nations don?t develop weapons of mass destruction.? -- George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003 (AP/Carolyn Kaster) - ONE QUESTION ON THIS ONE. WHY THEN DID THE US ATTACK IRAQ AND WHY DID THEY DEVELOP NUCLEAR WEAPONS
"My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions." -- George W. Bush, Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 3, 2007 (AP/Charles Dharapak)
"There are jobs Americans aren't doing. If you've got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what I'm talking about." -- George W. Bush, Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007 (AP/Gerald Herbert)
"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren?t able to practice their love with women all across this country.? -- George W. Bush, Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004 (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
"You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." -- George W. Bush to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Neb., Feb. 4, 2005 (AP/Christophe Ena)
"Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" -- George W. Bush, Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
?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.? -- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004 (AP/Ron Edmonds)
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." -- George W. Bush, Greater Nashua, N.H., Jan. 27, 2000 (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
?First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill.? -- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 19, 2003 (AP/Ron Edmonds)
?Wow! Brazil is big.? -- George W. Bush, after being shown a map of Brazil by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2005 (AP/Gerald Herbert)
"There is no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say: Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world." -- George W. Bush, addressing U.S. troops at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, Jan. 12, 2008 (AP/Ron Edmonds)
"I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality." -- George W. Bush, interview on National Public Radio, Jan. 29, 2007 (AP/Ron Edmonds)