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Bushisms of the Debate

Jacob Weisberg
Posted Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2000, at 11:21 AM ET

"If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders."

"Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it."

"It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term."

"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun."

"Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is--I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president."

"Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about."

"If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it."

-- St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 18, 2000

For more, see "The Complete Bushisms."

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Jacob Weisberg is editor-in-chief of the Slate Group and author of The Bush Tragedy.
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