"I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully."
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
"We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile."
"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together."
"I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves." (September 21, 2003)
"Washington is a town where there's all kinds of allegations. You've heard much of the allegations. And if people have got solid information, please come forward with it. And that would be people inside the information who are the so-called anonymous sources, or people outside the information — outside the administration." (September 30, 2003)
"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"
"I understand small business growth. I was one."
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
"The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women who are focused on what's best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house."
"There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's like." [12/13/2002]
and who said all that, but our president george w. bush himself