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Actual GWB quotes
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."
"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."—"
"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
"The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur"
"Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?"
"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."
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program."
"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together."
"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it."
"To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States."
"Most imports are from outside of the country"
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
“More and more of our imports come from overseas."
"I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children."
"I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging."
"I understand small business growth. I was one."
"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve."
"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law."
"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun."
"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee...that says, fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me...you can't get fooled again."
"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."
"I've coined new words like misunderstanding and Hispanically."
"Our nation must come together to unite."
"There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead."
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."
"I do know I'm ready for the job . And if not, that's just the way it goes."
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