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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

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Jacob Weisberg is chairman and editor-in-chief of the Slate Group and author of The Bush Tragedy. Follow him at http://twitter.com/jacobwe.
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