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"The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur." ...discussing the decline of the French economy with British Prime Minister Tony Blair

"I've heard he's been called Bush's poodle. He's bigger than that." ...on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as quoted by the Sun newspaper, 6/27/07

"More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way" ...Martinsburg, WV, 7/4/07

"My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions." ...Lancaster, PA, 10/3/07

"I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be - hold hands." ...on how he can contribute to the Middle East peace process, Washington, DC, 1/4/08

"I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it." ...Crawford, TX, 10/10/07

"All I can tell you is when the governor calls, I answer his phone." ...San Diego, CA, 10/25/07

"One of my concerns is that the health care not be as good as it can possibly be." ...on military benefits, Tipp City, OH, 4/19/07

"I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality." ...interview on National Public Radio, 1/29/07

"I welcome you all to say a few comments to the TV, if you care to do so." ...inviting visiting Irish dignitaries to address the media, Washington, DC, 12/7/07

"We ended the rule of one of history's worst tyrants, and in so doing, we not only freed the American people, we made our own people more secure." ...Crawford, TX, 5/3/03

"This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating." ...as quoted by the New York Daily News, 4/23/02

"It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber." ...Washington, DC, 4/10/02

"I want to thank the dozens of welfare to work stories, the actual examples of people who made the firm and solemn commitment to work hard to embetter themselves." ...Washington, DC, 4/18/02

"I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome." ...defending Vice President Dick Cheney's pre-war assertion that the United States would be welcomed in Iraq as liberators, NBC Nightly News interview, 12/12/05

"I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend." ...on visiting Denmark, Washington DC, 6/29/05

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." ...Greece, NY, 5/24/05

"I can only speak to myself." ...Washington, DC, 4/28/05

"[I'm] occasionally reading, I want you to know, in the second term." ...Washington, DC, 3/16/05

"In terms of timetables, as quickly as possible - whatever that means." ...on his time frame for shoring up Social Security, Washington DC, 3/16/05

"After all, Europe is America's closest ally." ...Mainz, Germany, 2/23/05

"Because he's hiding." ...responding to a reporter who asked why Osama bin Laden had not been caught, aboard Air Force One, 1/14/05

"Who could have possibly envisioned an erection - an election in Iraq at this point in history?" ...at the White House, Washington, DC, 1/10/05

"We need to apply 21st-century information technology to the health care field. We need to have our medical records put on the I.T." ...Collinsville, IL, 1/5/05

"I believe we are called to do the hard work to make our communities and quality of life a better place." ...Collinsville, IL, 1/5/05

"I think the American people - I hope the American - I don't think, let me - I hope the American people trust me." ...Washington, DC, 12/18/02

"I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president." ...as quoted in Bob Woodward's Bush at War

"We need an energy bill that encourages consumption." ...Trenton, NJ, 9/23/02

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