"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of
federal program."

- George W. Bush, Nov. 2, 2000

"They misunderestimated me."

- George W. Bush, Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law."


- George W. Bush, Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000

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WASHINGTON POST: Why do you think bin Laden has not been caught?

George W. Bush: Because he's hiding.


January 14, 2005
Aboard Air Force One

"Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads."

George W. Bush fund-raising letter
March 24, 2000
Quoted in the Washington Post.

"Every gun that is made, every warship that is launched, every rocket fired signifies in
the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not
clothed"

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"When even one American - who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind
and close his mouth, then all of Americans are in peril."

-- Harry S. Truman

"The history of liberty is a history of the limitations of governmental power, not the
increase of it."

- Woodrow Wilson.

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet
any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."

--Abraham Lincoln

"People don't need to worry about security. This deal wouldn't go forward if we were
concerned about the security for the United States of America."

- George W. Bush, on the deal to hand over U.S. port security to a company operated by the
United Arab Emirates, Washington, D.C., Feb. 23, 2006