[nghtrnnr]

i was reading this story about arnold pushing the green cause and at the end he said this to all the politicians that dont follow him:

"Your political base will melt away as surely as the polar ice caps -- I can guarantee you of that," Schwarzenegger said. "You will become a political penguin on a smaller and smaller ice floe, drifting out to sea. Goodbye, my little friend."


i mean...cant you just see hans and frans standing on either side of him?...if you run that quote over and over in your head with his accent it gets funnier and funnier...how can he say dumb things like that...goodbye my little friend? was he waving into the distance at some imaginary friend...lol...sigh...its late and i'm still at my desk.........................political penguin????

Schwarzenegger pumps up green movement - CNN.com

dont just read it...you HAVE to see it too
CNN.com Video

[razorjr07]

From El Presidente: "We have to see if our children is learning".

We're f***ed.

[Blood`Trinity]

Originally Posted by razorjr07

From El Presidente: "We have to see if our children is learning".

We're f***ed.

lol; was that made during the BECA speech? or something else?

Arnold isnt to bad, hes a weirdo I'll give you guys that but his solutions are reasonable and helpful to everyone, though I dont think everyone can afford to run their cars on hydrogen fuel just yet lol.

[Babii C]

do you realise how combustable hydrogen fuel is? Its like.. smash the car.. and you're a goner.

[Nyt_Muves]

"I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years." –Bill Clinton

[nghtrnnr]

oh i'm a huge fan of arnold...i have the encyclopedia of modern bodybuilding he wrote on my shelf...i still have his picture in my gym...and i own everyone of his movies...even hercules in new york...but calling a group of grown men political penguins is priceless...it was great when you heard the press start trying not to laugh...and his reaction was like; "i'm so funny!!"


THEY WERE LAUGHING AT YOU ARNOLD!!!! NOT WITH YOU!!!!

[Babii C]

Originally Posted by nghtrnnr

oh i'm a huge fan of arnold...i have the encyclopedia of modern bodybuilding he wrote on my shelf...i still have his picture in my gym...and i own everyone of his movies...even hercules in new york...but calling a group of grown men political penguins is priceless...it was great when you heard the press start trying not to laugh...and his reaction was like; "i'm so funny!!"


THEY WERE LAUGHING AT YOU ARNOLD!!!! NOT WITH YOU!!!!

LMAO yeah true.. I saw a video where he was all bulked up.. and it was just like.. "um.. okay..." My friend and I were sorta confused. OMG Vin Diesel.. now he has a good body.

[Neko-]

Got a few up for laughs:

I think I need to add one of my all time favorites: Never kick a man while he's down. He may get up again. - Unknown

Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with something bigger and heavier. -Anonymous

Never accept a drink from a urologist. -Erma Bombeck

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial. -Sydney Biddle Barrows, the "Mayflower Madam"

Never say "Oops" in the operating room. - Dr. Leo Troy

Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end". Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me. -Tim Allen

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire. -Dan Zevin

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day. -Harry S. Truman

Never use while sleeping. -Instruction on Conair hair dryer

Never play peekaboo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, "Look, it's always gonna be me!" -Rita Rudner

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide. -Woodrow Wilson

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. -Winston Churchill

Never stand between a dog and the hydrant. -John Peers

Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants. -Geraldo Rivera

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts. -Ruth Gordon

Never pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel. -American adage about antagonizing newspaper editors.

Never have a day go by without learning something new! - Douglas R. Praskach

"Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?"
- Bill Gates, 1981

"Any serious graphics applications still run better on Apple's Macintosh platform..."
- Bill Gates, 1991

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
-Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
-ThomasWatson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
-The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957

"But what ... is it good for?"
-Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
-Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."
-Western Union internal memo, 1876.

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
-David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible."
-A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found FEDeral EXpress Corp.)

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
-H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927 on audio in movies.

"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper."
-Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind."

"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make."
-Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
-Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
-Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."
-Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"
-Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.

"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
-1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.

"You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training."
-Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus.

"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy."
-Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.

"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
-Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
-Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
-Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction".
-Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon".
--Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.

[crazycarnut]

Originally Posted by Babii C

do you realise how combustable hydrogen fuel is? Its like.. smash the car.. and you're a goner.

i thought it was more like the block is gone.

[Babii C]

Originally Posted by crazycarnut

i thought it was more like the block is gone.

hahah yeah well either way.. learnt about that one in science.. gosh my teacher was awesome.

[74stang2togo]

Never Give Up! Never Surrender! -Tim Allen as Capt. Taggert in "Galaxy Quest"

"Nothing Important Happened Today" The King of England, July 4, 1776

[Snackmaster]

Build a man a fire and warm him for the night. Light a man on fire and warm him for the rest of his life.

Darkly funny.

[JEB]

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
-Hillary Clinton
"We are the President"-Hillary Clinton

"I voted for the 87 billion before I voted against it"-John Kerry
"Reporting for duty"-John Kerry "I never had sex with that woman, ms Lewinsky"-Bill Clinton

"A zebra doesn't change its spots."
-- algore, 1992

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
-- algore, in CNN interview 3/09/1999

"Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full."
-- algore, 12/22/1997 during a press conference on "homelessness"

"I tell you that Michael Jackson is unbelievable, isn't he. He's just unbelievable."
-- algore, as reported in The Chicago Tribune June 17, 1998 expressing his awe at the Chicago Bulls basketball superstar


"We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be 'e pluribus unum' -- out of one, many. "
-- algore, in a January 1994 Milwaukee speech to the Institute of World Affairs. ('e pluribus unum' means out of many, one)


"In 50 years there will be no North Pole in the summertime."
-- algore on MTV's 'Choose or Lose' Town Hall Forum 9/26/2000
(apparently global warming will cause the earth to shift on its axis)

"We need laws that protect everyone. Men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion."
-Bella Abzug
"I am a great mayor. I am an upstanding Christian man. I am an intelligent man. I am a deeply educated man. I am a humble man."
-Marion Barry
"Outside of the killings, Washington [D.C.] actually has a very low crime rate."
-Marion Barry

"What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?"
-Marion Barry
"I'm one of those mayors whose management style is to allow free and unlimited debate, to a point."
-Marion Barry
"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk."
-Marion Barry
"The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist."
-Marion Barry
"I am not the leader of Washington. I am not the business leader of Washington. I am not the spiritual leader of Washington. I am not the civic leader of Washington. I am not the social leader of Washington. I am the political leader of Washington. That's where my responsibility ends."
-Marion Barry
"People blame me because these water main break, but I ask you: If the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them? Would it?"
-Marion Barry
"Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch."
Warren Beatty
"Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died - their lives will never be the same again."
-Barbara Boxer
"If elected, there will never be another winter in Iowa! Let the word go forth!"
-Bill Bradley
"There are no issues. My opponent has a job and I want it. That's what this election is about."
-William Bulow
"I am speaking of a great man who should have been president and would have been one of the greatest presidents in history: Hubert Horatio Hornblower."
-Jimmy Carter
"I hope that history will present me with maybe two words. One is peace. The other is human rights."
-Jimmy Carter
"Being president is like running a cemetery: You've got a lot of people under you, and nobody's listening."
-Bill Clinton
"I'm someone who has a deep emotional attachment to Starsky and Hutch."
-Bill Clinton
"I don't necessarily consider McDonald's junk food."
-Bill Clinton"Last year, the vice president launched a new effort to help make communities more liberal."
-Bill Clinton, meaning to say 'livable'
"Wouldn't it be sad to have an Internet connection if there's no Martians to write to?"
-Bill Clinton

I'll find more later, this is enough for now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stangfreak12243]

Clinton: "I can spend your money better than you can."

"When I was a younger man and had a life," stated Clinton, "I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back. You don't want to know why, but I did."-Clinton

"I've heard Eric Clapner, ... I think it was a wonderful thing that Eric Clapner the musician did...So I think that's the wonderful part about it, but listen - I like Eric Clapner!" - Joycelyn Elders referring to Eric Clapton

[Ringo]

Originally Posted by JEB

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
-Hillary Clinton
"We are the President"-Hillary Clinton

"I voted for the 87 billion before I voted against it"-John Kerry
"Reporting for duty"-John Kerry "I never had sex with that woman, ms Lewinsky"-Bill Clinton

"A zebra doesn't change its spots."
-- algore, 1992

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
-- algore, in CNN interview 3/09/1999

"Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full."
-- algore, 12/22/1997 during a press conference on "homelessness"

"I tell you that Michael Jackson is unbelievable, isn't he. He's just unbelievable."
-- algore, as reported in The Chicago Tribune June 17, 1998 expressing his awe at the Chicago Bulls basketball superstar


"We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be 'e pluribus unum' -- out of one, many. "
-- algore, in a January 1994 Milwaukee speech to the Institute of World Affairs. ('e pluribus unum' means out of many, one)


"In 50 years there will be no North Pole in the summertime."
-- algore on MTV's 'Choose or Lose' Town Hall Forum 9/26/2000
(apparently global warming will cause the earth to shift on its axis)

"We need laws that protect everyone. Men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion."
-Bella Abzug
"I am a great mayor. I am an upstanding Christian man. I am an intelligent man. I am a deeply educated man. I am a humble man."
-Marion Barry
"Outside of the killings, Washington [D.C.] actually has a very low crime rate."
-Marion Barry

"What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?"
-Marion Barry
"I'm one of those mayors whose management style is to allow free and unlimited debate, to a point."
-Marion Barry
"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk."
-Marion Barry
"The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist."
-Marion Barry
"I am not the leader of Washington. I am not the business leader of Washington. I am not the spiritual leader of Washington. I am not the civic leader of Washington. I am not the social leader of Washington. I am the political leader of Washington. That's where my responsibility ends."
-Marion Barry
"People blame me because these water main break, but I ask you: If the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them? Would it?"
-Marion Barry
"Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch."
Warren Beatty
"Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died - their lives will never be the same again."
-Barbara Boxer
"If elected, there will never be another winter in Iowa! Let the word go forth!"
-Bill Bradley
"There are no issues. My opponent has a job and I want it. That's what this election is about."
-William Bulow
"I am speaking of a great man who should have been president and would have been one of the greatest presidents in history: Hubert Horatio Hornblower."
-Jimmy Carter
"I hope that history will present me with maybe two words. One is peace. The other is human rights."
-Jimmy Carter
"Being president is like running a cemetery: You've got a lot of people under you, and nobody's listening."
-Bill Clinton
"I'm someone who has a deep emotional attachment to Starsky and Hutch."
-Bill Clinton
"I don't necessarily consider McDonald's junk food."
-Bill Clinton"Last year, the vice president launched a new effort to help make communities more liberal."
-Bill Clinton, meaning to say 'livable'
"Wouldn't it be sad to have an Internet connection if there's no Martians to write to?"
-Bill Clinton

I'll find more later, this is enough for now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Clinton looks like Einstein next to your leader Bush:

"The solution to Iraq -- an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself -- is more than a military mission. Precisely the reason why I sent more troops into Baghdad." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2007
"They're innocent, they were doing nothing, and they were summarily plucked out of water." --George W. Bush, on British sailors who were detained by Iran while on patrol in the Persian Gulf, Camp David, March 31, 2007
"Some call this civil war; others call it emergency -- I call it pure evil." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 28, 2007
"I'm a strong proponent of the restoration of the wetlands, for a lot of reasons. There's a practical reason, though, when it comes to hurricanes: The stronger the wetlands, the more likely the damage of the hurricane." --George W. Bush, New Orleans, March 1, 2007
"And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it." --George W. Bush, interview on National Public Radio, Jan. 29, 2007
"I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality." --George W. Bush, interview on National Public Radio, Jan. 29, 2007
"And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table." --George W. Bush, interview on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Jan. 16, 2007
"The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope -- an ideology of hate -- excuse me --with an ideology of hope." --George W. Bush, Fort Benning, Ga., Jan. 11, 2007
"Make no mistake about it, I understand how tough it is, sir. I talk to families who die." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 2006 (Watch video clip)

"It's bad in Iraq. Does that help?" --George W. Bush, after being asked by a reporter whether he's in denial about Iraq, Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 2006
"And truth of the matter is, a lot of reports in Washington are never read by anybody. To show you how important this one is, I read it, and our guest read it." --George W. Bush, on the Baker-Hamilton Report, appearing with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 2006

"This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all." --George W. Bush, on speculation that U.S. troops could be withdrawn from Iraq, Amman, Jordan, Nov. 30, 2006

"The only way we can win is to leave before the job is done." --George W. Bush, Greeley, Colo., Nov. 4, 2006 (Watch video clip)

"Anybody who is in a position to serve this country ought to understand the consequences of words." --George W. Bush, interview with Rush Limbaugh, Nov. 1, 2006

"You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war President. No President wants to be a war President, but I am one." --George W. Bush, Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 26, 2006

Maria Bartiromo: "I'm curious, have you ever googled anybody? Do you use Google?"
President Bush: "Occasionally. One of the things I've used on the Google is to pull up maps. It's very interesting to see -- I've forgot the name of the program -- but you get the satellite, and you can -- like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes." --interview with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo, Oct. 24, 2006 (Watch video clip)

"We're never been stay the course, George." --George W. Bush, attempting to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years, interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, Oct. 22, 2006

"This morning my administration released the budget numbers for fiscal 2006. These budget numbers are not just estimates; these are the actual results for the fiscal year that ended February the 30th." --George W. Bush, on the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, Washington, D.C., Oct. 11, 2006 (Watch video clip)

"One has a stronger hand when there's more people playing your same cards." --George W. Bush, on holding six-party talks with North Korea, Washington, D.C., Oct. 11, 2006

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"I will not withdraw, even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me." --George W. Bush, talking to key Republicans about Iraq, as quoted by Bob Woodward

"I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is -- my point is, there's a strong will for democracy." --George W. Bush, interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Sept. 24, 2006 (Watch video clip)
"You're one of the outstanding leaders in a very important part of the world. I want to thank you for strategizing our discussions." --George W. Bush, meeting with the prime minister of Malaysia, New York, N.Y., Sept. 18, 2006

"The Patriot Act has increased the flow of information within our government and it has helped break up terrorist cells in the United States of America. And the United States Congress was right to renew the terrorist act -- the Patriot Act." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C. , Sept. 7, 2006

"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." --George W. Bush, interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006

"I said I was looking for a book to read, Laura said you ought to try Camus. I also read three Shakespeares. ... I've got a eck-a-lec-tic reading list." --George W. Bush, interview with NBC's Brian Williams, New Orleans, La., Aug. 29, 2006 (Watch video clip)

"And I suspect that what you'll see, Toby, is there will be a momentum, momentum will be gathered. Houses will begat jobs, jobs will begat houses." --George W. Bush, talking to reporters along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, Gulfport, Miss., Aug. 28, 2006

"I would guess, I would surmise that some of the more spectacular bombings are done by al Qaeda suiciders." --George W. Bush, on violence in Iraq, Washington, D.C., Aug. 21, 2006

"The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks." --George W. Bush, McLean, Va., Aug. 15, 2006
"See, the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this s**t, and it's over." --George W. Bush, chomping on a dinner roll while talking about the Middle East crisis with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the G8 summit, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2006 (Watch video clip)

"One thing is clear, is relations between America and Russia are good, and they're important that they be good." --George W. Bush, Strelna, Russia, July 15, 2006

"I've reminded the prime minister-the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship." George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 29, 2006

"We shouldn't fear a world that is more interacted." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 27, 2006

"I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?" --George W. Bush, asked if the tide was turning in Iraq, Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006
President Bush: "Peter. Are you going to ask that question with shades on?"
Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times: "I can take them off."
Bush: "I'm interested in the shade look, seriously."
Wallsten: "All right, I'll keep it, then."
Bush: "For the viewers, there's no sun."
Wallsten: "I guess it depends on your perspective."
Bush: "Touche.
--an exchange with legally blind reporter Peter Wallsten, to whom Bush later apologized, Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006 (Watch video clip)

"I tell people, let's don't fear the future, let's shape it." --George W. Bush, Omaha, Neb., June 7, 2006

"Trying to stop suiciders -- which we're doing a pretty good job of on occasion -- is difficult to do. And what the Iraqis are going to have to eventually do is convince those who are conducting suiciders who are not inspired by Al Qaeda, for example, to realize there's a peaceful tomorrow." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 24, 2006

"I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass in my lake." --George W. Bush, on his best moment in office, interview with the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, May 7, 2006

"If people want to get to know me better, they've got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in me, and the fact that I was raised in West Texas, in the middle of the desert, a long way away from anywhere, hardly. There's a certain set of values you learn in that experience." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006

"You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006

"The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany." --George W. Bush, D.C., May 5, 2006

"That's George Washington, the first president, of course. The interesting thing about him is that I read three -- three or four books about him last year. Isn't that interesting?" --George W. Bush, while showing German newspaper reporter Kai Diekmann the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006

"Finally, the desk, where we'll have our picture taken in front of -- is nine other Presidents used it. This was given to us by Queen Victoria in the 1870s, I think it was. President Roosevelt put the door in so people would not know he was in a wheelchair. John Kennedy put his head out the door." --George W. Bush, showing German newspaper reporter Kai Diekmann the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006

"That's called, A Charge To Keep, based upon a religious hymn. The hymn talks about serving God. The president's job is never to promote a religion." --George W. Bush, showing German newspaper reporter Kai Diekmann the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006

"I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 4, 2006

"I can look you in the eye and tell you I feel I've tried to solve the problem diplomatically to the max, and would have committed troops both in Afghanistan and Iraq knowing what I know today." --George W. Bush, Irvine, Calif., April 24, 2006

"I aim to be a competitive nation." --George W. Bush, San Jose, Calif., April 21, 2006

"I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of Defense." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C. April 18, 2006 (Listen to audio clip; Watch video clip)

"I strongly believe what we're doing is the right thing. If I didn't believe it -- I'm going to repeat what I said before -- I'd pull the troops out, nor if I believed we could win, I would pull the troops out." --George W. Bush, Charlotte, N.C., April 6, 2006

"No question that the enemy has tried to spread sectarian violence. They use violence as a tool to do that." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 22, 2006

"If the Iranians were to have a nuclear weapon they could proliferate." --George W. Bush, Washington D.C., March 21, 2006

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"After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do." --George W. Bush, on the bombing of the Golden Mosque of Samarra in Iraq, March 13, 2006, Washington, D.C.

"And so I'm for medical liability at the federal level." --George W. Bush, on medical liability reform, Washington, D.C., March 10, 2006

"I believe that a prosperous, democratic Pakistan will be a steadfast partner for America, a peaceful neighbor for India, and a force for freedom and moderation in the Arab world." --George W. Bush, mistakenly identifying Pakistan as an Arab country, Islamabad, Pakistan, March 3, 2006

"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

"And I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a Great British company." --George W. Bush, defending a plan to allow a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates to manage ports in the United States, aboard Air Force One, Feb. 21, 2006

"I think it's really important for this great state of baseball to reach out to people of all walks of life to make sure that the sport is inclusive. The best way to do it is to convince little kids how to--the beauty of playing baseball." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Feb. 13, 2006

"I like my buddies from west Texas. I liked them when I was young, I liked them then I was middle-age, I liked them before I was president, and I like them during president, and I like them after president." --George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 1, 2006

"He was a state sponsor of terror. In other words, the government had declared, you are a state sponsor of terror." --George W. Bush, on Saddam Hussein, Manhattan, Kan., Jan. 23, 2006

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"I'll be glad to talk about ranching, but I haven't seen the movie. I've heard about it. I hope you go -- you know -- I hope you go back to the ranch and the farm is what I'm about to say." --George W. Bush, after being asked whether he's seen Brokeback Mountain, Manhattan, Kan., Jan. 23, 2006

"It's a heck of a place to bring your family." --George W. Bush, on New Orleans, New Orleans, La., Jan. 12, 2006

"You took an oath to defend our flag and our freedom, and you kept that oath underseas and under fire." --George W. Bush, addressing war veterans, Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2006

"As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself -- not here at the hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a little scratch. As a matter of fact, the Colonel asked if I needed first aid when she first saw me. I was able to avoid any major surgical operations here, but thanks for your compassion, Colonel." --George W. Bush, after visiting with wounded veterans from the Amputee Care Center of Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 1, 2006