Dubya as a Second Language
1. Vocabulary
newqler: nuclear
Barriffs: barriers
Cuff Links: handcuffs
Grecians: Greeks
Inebriating: enthralling
Obscufate: obfuscate
Pillared: pilloried
Preservation: perseverance
Presumptive: presumptuous
Slovokian: Slovenian
Subscribe: ascribe
Subsidation: Subsidization
Tacular weapons: tactical weapons
Tenants: tenets
Terriers: tariffs
Vile: viable
Vulcanize: balkanize
2. Grammar
More and more of our imports come from overseas,
You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - President Bush at Townsend TN Elementary School
Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness. -- Aug. 30, 2000.
Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis.
I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, DC, is close to California
Reading is the basics for all learning
I understand small business growth. I was one.
The senator has got to understand if he's going to have - he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road,
If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through.
We ought to make the pie higher.
I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.
The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.
Will the highways on the Internet become more few?
I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.
This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mential losses.
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning
There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be town-hall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country.
When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them and it was clear who them was. Today we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.
This is Preservation month. I appreciate preservation. This is what you do when you run for president. You've got to preserve." -- To several hundred children at an elementary school in Nashua that was celebrating what it called Perseverance Month (not Preservation Month).
What I'm against is quotas. I'm against hard quotas, quotas that basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think, vulcanize society.
Tell them I have learned from mistakes I may or may not have made.
3. Style
I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their business. And like them, I am very optimistic about our position in the world and about its influence on the United States. We're concerned about the short-term economic news, but long-term, I'm optimistic. And so, I hope investors, you know -- secondly I hope investors hold investments for periods of time -- that I've always found the best investments are those that you salt away based on economics." -- Jan. 4, 2001.
I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of the leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them." -- Dec. 18, 2000.
The Legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law." -- Nov. 22, 2000.
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods." -- Dec. 20, 2000.
1. Vocabulary
newqler: nuclear
Barriffs: barriers
Cuff Links: handcuffs
Grecians: Greeks
Inebriating: enthralling
Obscufate: obfuscate
Pillared: pilloried
Preservation: perseverance
Presumptive: presumptuous
Slovokian: Slovenian
Subscribe: ascribe
Subsidation: Subsidization
Tacular weapons: tactical weapons
Tenants: tenets
Terriers: tariffs
Vile: viable
Vulcanize: balkanize
2. Grammar
More and more of our imports come from overseas,
You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - President Bush at Townsend TN Elementary School
Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness. -- Aug. 30, 2000.
Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis.
I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, DC, is close to California
Reading is the basics for all learning
I understand small business growth. I was one.
The senator has got to understand if he's going to have - he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road,
If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through.
We ought to make the pie higher.
I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.
The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.
Will the highways on the Internet become more few?
I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.
This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mential losses.
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning
There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be town-hall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country.
When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them and it was clear who them was. Today we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.
This is Preservation month. I appreciate preservation. This is what you do when you run for president. You've got to preserve." -- To several hundred children at an elementary school in Nashua that was celebrating what it called Perseverance Month (not Preservation Month).
What I'm against is quotas. I'm against hard quotas, quotas that basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think, vulcanize society.
Tell them I have learned from mistakes I may or may not have made.
3. Style
I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their business. And like them, I am very optimistic about our position in the world and about its influence on the United States. We're concerned about the short-term economic news, but long-term, I'm optimistic. And so, I hope investors, you know -- secondly I hope investors hold investments for periods of time -- that I've always found the best investments are those that you salt away based on economics." -- Jan. 4, 2001.
I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of the leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them." -- Dec. 18, 2000.
The Legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law." -- Nov. 22, 2000.
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods." -- Dec. 20, 2000.
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