# George W. Bush quotes. They're freakin' hilarious. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 18, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-w-bush-quotes-theyre-freakin-hilarious/33651 "2000-09-18T20:51:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-w-bush-quotes-theyre-freakin-hilarious/33651/1 "2000-09-18T20:51:01Z")
I was surfing the internet when I found this site: [http://slate.msn.com/Features/bushisms/bushisms.asp](http://slate.msn.com/Features/bushisms/bushisms.asp) My three favorite are: “I understand small business growth. I was one.”—New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000 “Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”—Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000 “We ought to make the pie higher.”—South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000 ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-w-bush-quotes-theyre-freakin-hilarious/33651/2 "2000-09-18T22:08:00Z")
At least a slip of the tongue is humorous. This shit here is downright frightening. [http://www.rnc.org/gorefiles/index](http://www.rnc.org/gorefiles/index) ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-w-bush-quotes-theyre-freakin-hilarious/33651/3 "2000-09-18T22:31:54Z")
"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.’’—Quoted by Molly Ivins, the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000 “Will the highways on the Internet become more few?”—Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000 “I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.”—Nashua, N.H., as quoted by Gail Collins in the New York Times, Feb. 1, 2000 Some funny stuff there. ---
**Author:** ![JoeyHemlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@JoeyHemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeyHemlock)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-w-bush-quotes-theyre-freakin-hilarious/33651/4 "2000-09-18T22:44:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\*At least a slip of the tongue is humorous. This shit here is downright frightening. > [http://www.rnc.org/gorefiles/index](http://www.rnc.org/gorefiles/index) \*\* Anti-Gore stuff on the Republican National Congress website? No! Say it ain’t so! ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-w-bush-quotes-theyre-freakin-hilarious/33651/5 "2000-09-18T22:48:25Z")
Years ago, Gordon Liddy called the Democrats “The Party of the Evil” and the Republicans “The Party of the Stupid.” Back then, I laughed. Now… I think I’m getting scared. ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-w-bush-quotes-theyre-freakin-hilarious/33651/6 "2000-09-18T22:58:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Anti-Gore stuff on the Republican National Congress website? No! Say it ain’t so! yeah, like Molly Ivins is a model of objectivity.