State of the Budget Address

“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

Nucular power pants

“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

We got some good malpractice

“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

Who’ll take advantage of me?

“There’s not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me.”

—Wilton, Connecticut; June 9, 2000

Just give me a pill

“I don’t think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs.”

—Orlando, Florida; September 12, 2000

Denmark never felt so good

“I’m looking forward to a good night’s sleep on the soil of a friend.”

—Washington, D.C.; June 29, 2005