- Nov 07, 2020
Political Legacy Quotes
On power, family, and public trust.
These quotes reflect on what it means to inherit a family's political name, the responsibility that comes with using it well, and the criticism that follows powerful public figures. They speak to broader questions about accountability that echo through our believe quotes as well.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't have supported invoking Taft-Hartley to help George Bush end a strike.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that George Bush won the election through the vote of the people and the way our republic is set up. All we did was follow the law in the Department of State.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look what's happened to Barack Obama over the last two years or George Bush for eight. It's a blood sport. But at some point I may feel the need to run for office again.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, when George Bush talks about freedom not being America's gift to world but God's gift to all humankind, it smells like market testing to me.
- Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
- Candidate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.
- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped.
- Strategy
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- Nov 07, 2020