Random selections from W’s verbal assault on the English language, updated daily
“I suspect that had my dad not been president, he’d be asking the same questions: How’d your meeting go with so-and-so? …How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address — state of the budget address, whatever you call it.”
-Interview with The Washington Post; March 9, 2001
“And so we’ll continue to enhance protection at our borders and coastlines and airports and bridges and nucular power pants and water treatment facilities, and other critical sites, including transportation infrastructure.”
—Baltimore, Maryland; July 20, 2005
“The trial lawyers are very politically powerful… But here in Texas we took them on and got some good medical – medical malpractice.”
—Waco, Texas; August 13, 2002
“There’s not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me.”
—Wilton, Connecticut; June 9, 2000
“I don’t think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs.”
—Orlando, Florida; September 12, 2000
“I’m looking forward to a good night’s sleep on the soil of a friend.”
—Washington, D.C.; June 29, 2005
“A submarine could take this place out.”
—Surveying the Arkansas River while visiting the Clinton Presidential Center; Little Rock, Arkansas; November 18, 2004
“That’s why I went to Congress last September and proposed fundamental – supplemental funding, which is money for armor and body parts and ammunition and fuel.”
—Erie, Pennsylvania; September 4, 2004
“I admit it, I am not one of the great linguists.”
—Washington, D.C.; January 23, 2001
“Bin Laden says his own role is to tell Muslims, quote, ‘what is good for them and what is not.’”
—Washington, D.C.; October 6, 2005
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