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- 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
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've thought a lot about the world and how George Bush sees the world and it ain't even close.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
- Idiot
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- Nov 07, 2020
People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand why, to rise to the level of being president of my country, one has to be a monster. I used to say that George Bush was defiling the Oval Office, but it's been held by a long line of monsters. We don't have to support our administrations to love our country.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had worked for George Bush as a speechwriter, and I read a lot of White House memoirs. They all have two themes: 'It Wasn't My Fault' and 'It Would Have Been Much Worse if I Hadn't Been There.'
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that presidents up through and including George Bush have known that Americans were left alive and in violation of law, these high officials and certain of their appointed subordinates have continued and perpetrated a cover up of this reality.
- Cite
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him 'he can't see you'.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020