In keeping with the season:

One of the interesting initiatives we've taken in Washington, D.C., is
we've got these vampire-busting devices. A vampire is a -- a cell deal
you can plug in the wall to charge your cell phone.
-- George W. Bush, Denver, Colorado, August 14, 2001

On what it takes to be President:

To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say,
well done. And to the C students, I say to you: you, too, can be
president of the United States.
-- George W. Bush, receiving an honorary degree at Yale, quoted from
Newsweek, June, 4, 2001

If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to
have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.
-- George W. Bush, to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund Institute,
Washington, D.C., May 22, 2001, quoted from Jacob Weinberg, "The
Complete Bushisms"

On one of himselves:

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.
-- George W. Bush, Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000

And for those who think he doesn't understand economics:

It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
-- George W. Bush, Reuters, May 5, 2000,


Rick