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"I think I may need a bathroom break. Is this possible?" --President Bush, in a note to to Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice during a U.N. Security Council meeting, September 14, 2005
"What didn't go right?" --President Bush, as quoted by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, after
she urged him to fire FEMA Director Michael Brown "because of all that went wrong, of all that didn't go right" in the Hurricane
Katrina relief effort, Sept. 6, 2005
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth
to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." --George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005
"If one person criticizes [the local authorities' relief efforts] or says one more thing, including
the president of the United States, he will hear from me. One more word about it after this show airs, and I…I might
likely have to punch him, literally." --Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), "This Week with George Stephanopoulous," Sept. 4, 2005
"Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" --House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-TX), to three
young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 9, 2005
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"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." --President Bush, to FEMA director Michael Brown, while
touring hurricane-ravaged Mississippi, Sept. 2, 2005
"You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're
doing that." --President Bush, to a divorced mother of three in Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005
"I question it based on a review of the video footage which I spent an hour or so looking at last
night in my office. She certainly seems to respond to visual stimuli." --Sen. Bill Frist, diagnosing Terri Schiavo's condition
during a speech on the Senate floor, March 17, 2005 [The autopsy later revealed she was blind.]
"Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our "support" for blindly following orders?"
-- Ted Rall
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"What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so
overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this
(chuckle) – this is working very well for them." --Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the hurricane evacuees at the
Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 5, 2005
"I'm proud of George. He's learned a lot about ranching since that first year when he tried to milk
the horse. What's worse, it was a male horse." --First Lady Laura Bush, at the White House Correspondents dinner, April 30,
2005
"You are the best governor ever." --Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, writing to Texas Gov. George
Bush in 1997 on his 51st birthday, adding that she found him "cool" and that he and his wife, Laura, were "the greatest" and
telling him: "Keep up the great work. Texas is blessed."
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"Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans, virtually a city that has been destroyed,
things are going relatively well." --FEMA Director Michael Brown, Sept. 1, 2005
"I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." --Vice President Dick Cheney,
on the Iraq insurgency, June 20, 2005
"You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals...many of these people, almost all
of them that we see are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching
this story unfold." --CNN's Wolf Blitzer, on New Orleans' hurricane evacuees, Sept. 1, 2005
"If you'll look at my lovely FEMA attire you'll really vomit. I am a fashion god… Anything
specific I need to do or tweak? Do you know of anyone who dog-sits? … Can I quit now? Can I come home? … I'm trapped
now, please rescue me." --Ex-FEMA Director Michael Brown, in various emails to colleagues and friends in the immediate aftermath
of Hurricane Katrina
"Well, I think that's bullsh*t and I hate that. Just let it go." --Commentator Bob Novak to James
Carville, before storming off the set at CNN, Aug. 4, 2005
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"If Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going
to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower?
Go ahead.'" –FOX News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, after San Francisco voted to ban military recruiters from city schools,
Nov. 8, 2005
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"We want our Border Patrol agents chasing, you know, crooks and thieves and drug-runners and terrorists,
not good-hearted people who are coming here to work. And therefore, it makes sense to allow the good-hearted people who are
coming here to do jobs that Americans won't do a legal way to do so. And providing that legal avenue, it takes the pressure
off the border." -- George Bush explains that we don't want the Border Patrol to actually stop illegal aliens
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"I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose,
you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." --Bill Bennett, former Education Secretary
and author of "The Book of Virtues," Sept. 28, 2005
"You think people can work all day and then pick up their kids at child care or wherever and get
home and still manage to sandwich in an eight-hour vote? Well Republicans, I guess can do that. Because a lot of them have
never made an honest living in their lives." --Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, speaking at the Campaign for America's
Future annual gathering, June 3, 2005
"I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work."
--Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, asked to estimate the number of Iraqi insurgents while testifying before Congress, Feb.
16, 2005
"I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn't work." --President Bush, after being thwarted by locked
doors when he tried to exit a news conference in Beijing in the face of hostile questioning from reporters, Nov. 20, 2005
"Get some devastation in the back." --Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, to a staff photographer
as he posed for a photo op while visiting tsunami-ravaged Sri Lanka, Jan. 6, 2005
"If I would do another 'Terminator' movie I would have Terminator travel back in time and tell Arnold
not to have a special election." --California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, after all four of his ballot
initiatives were
roundly defeated in the special election he called, Nov. 10, 2005
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"Real freedom will come when [U.S.] soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors." -- Warren
County Community College adjunct English professor, John Daly
"I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami,
or whatever it's called." --Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, urging President Bush to make public Supreme Court nominee
Harriet Miers's White House records, Oct. 5, 2005
"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate
him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war." --Pat Robertson, calling
for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Aug. 22, 2005
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