• Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
• Everyone knows the man has no clue, but no one there has the courage to say it. I mean, good gawd, the man is as he always has been: barely adequate. [on George W. Bush]
• Let me say for the umpteenth time, George W. is not a stupid man. The IQ of his gut, however, is open to debate. In Texas, his gut led him to believe the death penalty has a deterrent effect, even though he acknowledged there was no evidence to support his gut's feeling. When his gut, or something, causes him to announce that he does not believe in global warming -- as though it were a theological proposition -- we once again find his gut ruling that evidence is irrelevant. In my opinion, Bush's gut should not be entrusted with making peace in the Middle East.
• Last week, I began a sentence by saying, "If Bush had any imagination ..." and then I hit myself. Silly me.
• [On then-candidate George W. Bush, in a 2000 book on his "short but happy political life"] If, at the end of this short book, you find W. Bush's political resume a little light, don't blame us. There's really not much there. We have been looking for six years.
• [On George W. Bush and George H. W. Bush] If you think his daddy had trouble with "the vision thing," wait till you meet this one.
• [Molly Ivins quotes George W. Bush in one of his "Bushisms"] "What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position."
• [On then-President George H. W. Bush] Personally, I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.
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