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Bushism of the Day

By |Posted Wednesday, June 16, 2004, at 4:43 PM ET

"And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?"—Washington, D.C., June 15, 2004 (Thanks to Robert Irwin.)

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