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Bushisms of the Week

“The administration I’ll bring is a group of men and women who are focused on what’s best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house.”

–Des Moines Register debate, Jan. 15, 2000

“Is our children learning?”

–in Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000, as quoted by Frank Bruni in the New York Times