A compilation of strange Bush quotes and incidents

Bush, in the weeks before September 11, pledged to honor the sanctity of the Social Security lockbox except in the event of recession, war, or a national emergency. But after "everything changed" on 9/11, he reportedly gloated to his budget director, Mitch Daniels, "Lucky me--I hit the trifecta!" At the time, this comment (a variation of which is being recycled for laughs at current GOP fundraisers) seemed merely offensive. But in light of revelations that Bush's August 6 briefing memo was titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike U.S.," Bush's "luck" and weird prescience are worth more than passing scrutiny.

http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/trifecta_jun02.shtml


Bush comments on Carla Faye Tucker whom he had just sentenced to death while he was governor of Texas. "With pursed lips in mock desperation, [Bush said] ?'Please don't kill me'," wrote Talk magazine's conservative columnist Tucker Carlson.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/101500a.html


Bush made jokes about not finding WMD's in Iraq. Another slide showed him peering into another part of the office, "Nope, no weapons over there," he said, laughing. "Maybe under here," he said, as a third slide was shown.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1178547,00.html


"The Mars rover tells us that Mars at one time was host to a great civilization, perhaps even more advanced than our own," Mr. Bush said. "But that civilization and all living things in it were ultimately destroyed by gay marriage."

http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=813


"It is said about the US president that before 9-11 he thought that the Taliban was a Bavarian brass band. Now the president of the world's most powerful nation has put his foot in his mouth yet again. It was Condoleezza Rice, his national security advisor who had to rescue the situation. When talking with Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 71, Bush surprisingly asked: "Do you have Blacks too?" Ms. Rice noticed how stunned and surprised Cardoso looked and quickly told Bush that Brazil likely has more blacks than the US and that outside of Africa it was the place with the highest number of blacks. The Brazilian president remarked later that Bush was "still in a learning-phase" when it came to South America."

http://www.seeingblack.com/x071202/wegotjokes071202.shtml


"Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace."

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030725-115940-8800r.htm


"We need to thin our forests in America," he said to applause from more than 100 people."

http://www.libertymatters.org/newsservice/2003/faxback/08-13-03_2534_Bush.htm


"You [expletive] son of a bitch," Bush yelled. "I saw what you wrote. We're not going to forget this." [Washington Post, July 25, 1999]

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/082701a.html


"…God told me to strike at Al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [Hussein], which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37944-2003Jun26?language=printer


I'm the commander; I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation....

http://argument.independent.co.uk/podium/story.jsp?story=353858


Governor George W. Bush declares June 10, 2000 "Jesus Day".

http://www.ffrf.org/news/jesusday.jpg  This link leads to the official memorandum.


"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program."

http://www.jhunewsletter.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/03/05/4047c373c6396