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From: aberman@cs.washington.edu (Andrew Berman)
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Subject: Starting a List of Bush Quotes
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Well, here's a  starting  list,  culled  from  the  New  Republic  and
Doonesbury.   I'd  appreciate  any additional ones mailed to me.  I'll
update the list and repost in a few weeks.

Enjoy!


"I think there were some differences, there's no  question,  and  will
still  be.   We're  talking  about  a major, major situation here that
requires constant work. But it was well worth it and there's much more
to  it  than  just this - I mean just these sixteen accomplishments or
whatever:  I mean,  we've  got  a  major  rapport  -  relationship  of
economics,  major in the security, and all of that, we should not lose
sight of."
  --1/10/92 to reporters, on his trip to Japan
 

"Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full."
  --11/6/91
 

"No you're not going to see me stay put...  I am not going to  forsake
my  responsibilities.  You may not see me put as much - I mean, un-put
as much"
  --11/8/91
 

"You cannot be president of the United States of you don't have faith.
Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial and  the  Civil
War  and all that stuff.  You can't be.  And we are blessed.  So don't
feel sorry for - don't cry for me, Argentina."
  --1/15/92
 
 
"I think I've got to do better in making clear what  the  message  is,
and  I  think  I can do better.  But I think there's so much noise out
there that I've got to figure out how to make it clearer that  we  are
for the things that I have advocated that would help."
  --2/18/91
 

"Your dedication and  tireless  work  with  the  hostage  thing,  with
Central  America,  really  give  me  cause  for great pride in you and
thanks.  Get some turkey, George Bush."
  --Vice President George Bush in a written expression of gratitude to
Oliver North, circa Thanksgiving  1985.   Read  by  North  during  his
interview with Ted Koppel on "Nightline," 10/22/91


"I don't want to just sit here blaming Congress.  I mean, we're all in
this together."
  --President Bush, 11/20/91 to news anchor Bill  Stuart  of  KCNC-TV,
  Denver.
"I think the Congress should be blamed."
  --several minutes later, to Warner Saunders of WMAQ-TV, Chicago.
 

"If  a  frog had wings, he wouldn't hit his tail on the ground.  'If.'
Too hypothetical."


"And let me say in conclusion, thanks for the kids. I learned an awful
lot  about  bathtub  toys  - about how to work the telephone.  One guy
knows - several of them know their own phone numbers - preparation  to
go to the dentist.  A lot of things I'd forgotten. So it's been a good
day." - January 21, at a Head Start center in Catonsville, Maryland


"The  guy  over there at Pease - a woman actually - she said something
about a country-western song about the train, a light at  the  end  of
the tunnel... I only hope it's not a train coming the other way. Well,
I said to her, well, I'm a country music fan.  I love it, always have.
Doesn't  fit  the  mold  of  some  of the columnists, I might add, but
nevertheless - of what they think I ought to fit in, but  I  love  it.
You  should have been with me at the c.m.a.  awards at Nashville.  But
nevertheless, I said to them there's another one that the Nitty  Ditty
Nitty  Gritty  Great  Bird  - and it says if you want to see a rainbow
you've got to stand a little rain.  We've  had  a  little  rain.   New
Hampshire has had too much rain."

"And  so I do understand New Hampshire because I have this wonderfully
warm feeling that New Hampshire feels exactly the way we do  on  these
questions  of family values and faith.  Somebody said to me, we prayed
for you over there.  That was not just because I threw up on the Prime
Minister of Japan, either. Where was he when I needed him? I said, let
me tell you something.  And I say this -  I  don't  know  whether  any
ministers  from the episcopal church are here - I hope so.  But I said
to him this:  You're on to something here.  You cannot be President of
the  United States if you don't have faith.  It's been great.  I'll go
back to Washington all fired up for tomorrow and tackle the  President
or  the Prime Minister of this or the Governor of that coming in.  But
I'll have this heartbeat..."


We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world. 
  -- Dan Quayle