Classic Bushisms

• You know, this is a fabulous country we have. I don't know what the enemy was thinking when they hit us. They must have thought all we were going to was file a lawsuit or something.
-- White House, Apr. 18, 2002

• I believe that one of these days we're going to have brand new types of cars that are going to make us less dependent on foreign sources of crude oil, and we'll be more better at cleaning our air.
-- Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Apr. 15, 2002

• This doesn't have nothing to do with reputation.
-- the New York Times, Apr. 8, 2002

• I mean, after all, you might remember that some of the initial discussions after September the 11th about potential threat was about crop dusters. Now, they don't have a lot of crop dusters, you know, in Manhattan. They've got a lot of crop dusters in South Carolina or Texas. In other words, some of the intelligence we were getting was that not only were the enemy willing to use airplanes, obviously, as weapons, but what we were concerned about was that they would use other methods -- like using a crop duster to spray a weapons of mass destruction, if possible. It's an indication that we had to be on alert to defend all sites and all locations in our country.
-- Greenville, South Carolina, Mar. 27, 2002

We're a peaceful nation and moving along just right and just kind of having a time, and all of a sudden, we get attacked and now we're at war, but we're at war to keep the peace.
-- White House, Mar. 13, 2002

He is -- as I mentioned in my speech, I do mention the fact that this is a fellow who is willing to commit youngsters to their death and he, himself, tries to hide -- if, in fact, he's hiding at all.
-- On Osama bin Laden, White House, Mar. 13, 2002

• If you see somebody who you don't know getting into a crop duster that doesn't belong to you, report them.
-- Oct. 2001 press conference, answering question about what Americans can do to recognize terrorist threats