Endless money forms the sinews of war. — Cicero

 
Robert Fisk:

"Yet again, false informers, ill-trained American soldiers who appeared to exercise no fire control and a lack of military planning has created a tragedy among the people the Americans claimed to be 'liberating' from Saddam Hussein only 15 weeks ago."

 
Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicine as we used to know it.
—George W. Bush, 2000
Third Presidential debate with Al Gore.

I don't know whether I'm going to win [the election for President] or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes.
—George W. Bush, 2000

If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.
—George W. Bush, 2000

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
—George W. Bush, 2000

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
—George W. Bush, 2000

I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.
—George W. Bush, 2000
Second presidential debate

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
—George W. Bush, 2001
Associated Press interview

I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job [of President] is underestimating.
—George W. Bush, 2000
quoted in U.S. News & World Report

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.
—George W. Bush, 2000

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.
—George W. Bush, 2000

I understand small business growth. I was one.
—George W. Bush, 2000
quoted in New York Daily News

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
—George W. Bush, 2000

One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.
—George W. Bush, 2000

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.
—George W. Bush, 2001
New York Times interview

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
—George W. Bush, 2001
New York Times interview

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
—George W. Bush, 2000

The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.
—George W. Bush, 2000

quoted in San Antonio Express-News
There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.
—George W. Bush, 2001

Meeting with Catholic leaders
The woman who knew that I had dyslexia—I never interviewed her.
—George W. Bush, 2000

They have miscalculated me as a leader.
—George W. Bush, 2000

They misunderestimated me.
—George W. Bush, 2000

They said, "You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the people." And I said, you know something? Whether it resignates or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work.
—George W. Bush, 2000

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
—George W. Bush, 2000

This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.
—George W. Bush, 2000

"Perseverance Month" speech in Nashua, NH, quoted in Los Angeles Times
We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
—George W. Bush, 2000

We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.
—George W. Bush, 2000

Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.
—George W. Bush, 2000

We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House—make no mistake about it.
—George W. Bush, 2001

Will the highways on the Internet become more few?
—George W. Bush, 2000