248 days to go

"Reading is the basics for all learning."
     —Announcing the "Reading First" initiative; Reston, VA; March 28, 2000

Reading, Riting, and Rithmetic.

255 days to go

"Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads."
     —Fund-raising letter from George W. Bush; as quoted in The Washington Post; March 24, 2000

He didn't just think it, he wrote it down!

265 days to go

"The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany."
     —Washington, D.C.; May 5, 2006

Breaking news: Dubya thinks Germany is still communist.

318 days to go

"What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position."
     —As quoted by Molly Ivins in the San Francisco Chronicle; January 21, 2000

This is a great example of President Bush using big words :)

328 days to go

"Anyway, I'm so thankful, and so gracious—I'm gracious that my brother Jeb is concerned about the hemisphere as well."
     —Miami, FL; June 4, 2001

I highly doubt President Bush even knows what a hemisphere is. I think we should book him on "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?" after he's out of office. He'd may even do as well as Kellie Pickler...

342 days to go

"My job is to, like, think beyond the immediate."
     —Washington, D.C.; April 21, 2004

Like, gag me with a spoon...

368 days to go

"I think—tide turning—see, as I remember—I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of—it's easy to see a tide turn—did I say those words?"
     —Washington, D.C.; June 14, 2006