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Bushism of the Day

Book cover"My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the--in the Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen."--Crawford, Texas, Aug. 13, 2001 (Thanks to Michael Shively.)

For more, see "The Complete Bushisms."

Bush on Bushisms!
"Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom--or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. [Laughter.] But I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form."--Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner, Washington, D.C., March 29, 2001 (Click here for the full transcript.)

To buy a paperback version of the collected Bushisms, click here.



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Bryan Curtis, a contributing writer, writes the "Middlebrow" column.
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