BUSH QUOTES

[Guest guest]

BUSH QUOTES

 

 

" Actually, I -- this may sound a little West Texan to you, but

I like it. When I'm talking about -- when I'm talking about myself,

and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me. "

--Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000

 

" It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it. "

--Reuters, May 5, 2000

 

" I think we agree, the past is over. "

--On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News,

May 10, 2000

 

" Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is

sometime until we get an objective analysis. "

--Meet the Press, April 15, 2000

 

" I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty

close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C.,

is close to California. "

--Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000

 

" We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the

obligations; their obligations as teachers. We want them to

know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make

sure there's not this kind of federal cufflink. "

--Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, March 30, 2000

 

" The fact that he relies on facts -- says things that are not

factual -- are going to undermine his campaign. "

--New York Times, March 4, 2000

 

" It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in

nature. " --Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000

 

" I understand small business growth. I was one. "

--New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000

 

" The senator has got to understand if he's going to have he

can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then

claim the low road. "

--To reporters in Florence, S.C., Feb. 17, 2000

 

" If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and

polls and principles, come and join this campaign. "

--Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000

 

" How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system

that simply suckles kids through? "

--Explaining the need for educational accountability, Beaufort,

S.C., Feb. 16, 2000

 

" We ought to make the pie higher. "

--South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000

 

" I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less, I

pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it from this

show. And I'm more interacting with people. "

--Meet The Press, Feb. 13, 2000

 

" I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the

middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth. "

--Nashua, N.H., as quoted by Gail Collins, New York Times,

Feb. 1, 2000

 

" The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in

my case. " --Pella, Iowa, as quoted in the San Antonio Express News,

Jan. 30, 2000 "

 

" Will the highways on the Internet become more few? "

--Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000

 

" This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's

what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve. "

--Speaking during Perseverance Month at Fairgrounds

Elementary School in Nashua, N.H.

 

" I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family. "

--Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000

 

" This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and

uncertainty and potential mental losses. "

--At a South Carolina oyster roast; quoted in the Financial Times,

Jan. 14, 2000

 

" We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just

like you like to be liked yourself. "

--At a South Carolina oyster roast; quoted in the Financial Times,

Jan. 14, 2000

 

" Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning? "

--Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

 

" There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There

needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel.

This is a huge country. "

--Larry King Live, Dec. 16, 1999

 

" The important question is, How many hands have I shaked? "

--Answering a question about why he hasn't spent more time in

New Hampshire; quoted in the New York Times, Oct. 23, 1999

 

" Keep good relations with the Grecians. "

--Quoted in the Economist, June 12, 1999

 

" I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to

handle the job is underestimating. "

--U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000

 

" I sure am glad I had my bacon for breakfast. " ---

Bush laughed when a man from PETA shouted desperately :

" MEAT IS MURDER ! PORK IS DEATH ! "

to protest Bush's promoting for cruel meat industry on

February 11, 2000 , reported by Associated Press.

[Guest guest]

Top 10 questions left out of the debate

by Harry Browne, Libertarian candidate

 

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© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com

 

 

Tuesday's presidential debate contained a lot of words, a lot of

repetition, and a lot of disputes over the candidates' proposals. But

many important questions were never raised.

 

Here are the top 10 questions that were never brought up:

 

10. Mr. Gore, you said you believe fully in a woman's right to

choose. Does this mean a woman has a right to choose to get out of

the Social Security system -- or to choose to smoke marijuana to

relieve the pain of glaucoma or chemotherapy? Or is abortion the only

area in which a woman has the right to choose what she wants?

 

9. Mr. Bush, you said you believe in the strict construction of the

Constitution. Where in the Constitution does it give you the

authority to spend my money on federal education programs, to take my

money and give it to charities of your choice, or to set up a

prescription-drug program for seniors?

 

8. Mr. Gore, you said you believe the Constitution contains a right

to privacy. Does that mean you'll stop Treasury agents from searching

our bank accounts, looking for suspicious transactions? Will you end

all federal asset forfeiture, stop monitoring e-mails, and take that

ridiculous V-chip out of our TV sets?

 

7. Mr. Bush, you said you want to give taxpayer money to children to

attend private schools. Won't that mean federal regulation of private

schools -- turning them into clones of the government schools? Or are

you planning to issue the vouchers without any rules whatsoever?

 

6. Mr. Gore, when asked about the fund-raising scandals, you said you

won't answer such questions because they are " personal attacks. " Does

this mean you should never be held personally accountable for

anything you do in office?

 

5. Mr. Bush, you said you believe in local control of education. Why

then are you pushing for mandatory testing and other policies to be

imposed by the federal government?

 

4. Mr. Gore, since the introduction of Medicare, the cost of health

care to seniors has more than doubled, even after allowing for

inflation. Why do you want to extend this failed program to

prescription drugs -- which would probably cause their prices to rise

and their availability to shrink, and discourage the development of

new drugs that might cure cancer or Alzheimer's Disease?

 

3. Mr. Bush, you haven't proposed the elimination or reduction of a

single government program, regulation, or law. So why do you refer to

yourself as the candidate of smaller government?

 

2. Mr. Gore and Mr. Bush, you each keep referring to budget

surpluses. But the official federal debt continues to grow month by

month, year by year. This is because the " surplus " exists only by

borrowing the excess Social Security receipts and using them to paper

over the deficit in the general fund. So how can you promise

to " save " Social Security when you're spending all its receipts and

leaving nothing in the trust fund? And how can you promise to use

the " surplus " for tax cuts, debt reduction, and new spending programs

when there is no surplus?

 

And the #1 question that wasn't asked in the presidential debate

is ...

 

1. Mr. Bush and Mr. Gore, would either of you be a better person

today if, for your youthful drug use, you had served 10 years in

prison? If not, why don't you propose to release the hundreds of

thousands of non-violent drug offenders in federal prisons?

 

 

 

Harry Browne is the Libertarian presidential candidate. More of his

articles can be read at HarryBrowne.org.