Bush at his best!

• He did it again!... George W Bush does his act again at the Queen's reception in the White House, this is not the first time he has done such a think. This guy is the funniest character in contemporary history and I have treasured some of his funniest quote over the years. Starting from the recent one…
  
• Bush messed up at a ceremonial welcome for the queen at the White House Monday when he spoke of a visit paid by Elizabeth to mark the 200th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence from Britain "in 17 -- in 1976." After the queen looked up at him from beneath her wide-brimmed black hat, he winked at her, before turning to the laughing audience and telling them: "She gave me a look that only a mother could give a child".
  
• When the Queen visited the White House in 1991 during his father's presidency, he said he was the black sheep of the Bush family. "He then asked: 'Who's yours?' The queen did not reply," the other ones
  
• "I want to thank my friend, Sen. Bill, first for joining us today. … He married a Texas girl, I want you to know. (Laughter.) Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me"
  
• At a bill-signing ceremony on August 5, 2004, Bush spoke, and he said the following (not kidding!) “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and *neither do we.*”
  
• While George W Bush was visiting Japan, he said the Yen was subject to 'Devaluation', and a few hours after the stock market almost crashed until one of the President's officials explained that Mr Bush had meant 'deflation of the Yen' instead of 'devaluation of the Yen'
  
• "Actually, I -- this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about -- when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me." Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
  
• "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." Reuters, May 5, 2000
  "I think we agree, the past is over." On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
  
• "Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis." Meet the Press, April 15, 2000
  
• "I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California." Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000
  
• "We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal cufflink." Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, March 30, 2000
  
• "The fact that he relies on facts -- says things that are not factual -- are going to undermine his campaign." New YorkTimes, March 4, 2000
  
• "It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature." Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000
  
• "I understand small business growth. I was one." New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000
  "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." To reporters in Florence, S.C., Feb. 17, 2000
  
• "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign." Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000
  
• "How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?"
  Explaining the need for educational accountability, Beaufort, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000
  
• "We ought to make the pie higher." South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000
  
• "I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less I pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm more interacting with people." Meet The Press, Feb. 13, 2000
  
• "I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth." Nashua, N.H., as quoted by Gail Collins, New York Times, Feb. 1, 2000
  
• "The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case." Pella, Iowa, as quoted in the San Antonio Express News, Jan. 30, 2000
  
• "Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
  
• "This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve." Speaking during Perseverance Month" at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
  
• "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000
  
• "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." At a South Carolina oyster roast, as quoted in the Financial Times, Jan. 14, 2000
  
• We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself." At a South Carolina oyster roast, as quoted in the Financial Times, Jan.14, 2000
  
• "There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country." Larry King Live, Dec. 16, 1999
• "The important question is, How many hands have shaked?" Answering a question about why he hasn't spent more time in NewHampshire, In the New York Times, Oct. 23, 1999
  "Keep good relations with the Grecians." Quoted in the Economist, June 12, 1999
  "Education is my top priority. However, education is not my top priority.
  "[British Prime Minister] Blair, Bush and [French President] Jacques Chirac were discussing economics and, in particular, the decline of the French economy. 'The problem with the French,' Bush confided to Blair, 'is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur.'" Eh-hem. "Entrepreneur" is a FRENCH word.
  
• “Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" This Slip-Up was published in Rolling Stone
  
• "One of the great things about books is that sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.
  "Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness
  
• "I am responsible for all of my mistakes. And so are you."
  
• Before giving a speech at a campaign, Bush spotted Adam Clymer, a reporter for the New York Times, in the crowd. Someone turned on the mic just in time to catch Bush saying to his running mate, "There's Adam Clymer, a major league A------ from the New York Times."
  
• At the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, Bush was asked to answer questions about what had taken place. He answered that he would not, "Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican."
  
• Bush's address to teachers "First I'd like to spank all the teachers..." there was a short pause with a definite facial expression change on his part as he realized his mistake .Then he continued his speech.
  
• "A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
  
• Before he became President, George W. Bush was asked if he was Dyslexic. (reading disorder) His response was, "No, I eat 3 square meals a day!"
  "Families is where we find hope, where wings take dream."
  
• "The American peoples expectations are that we will fail. Our mission is to exceed their expectations." Quote by George W. Bush Jr at one of his first televised cabinet meetings in an opening speech to his cabinet.
  
• During the second presidential debate between George W. Bush and John Kerry (10-8-2004), John Kerry was asked a question about how America could remain competitive in manufacturing. During the answers and rebuttals between Senator Kerry and President Bush, the following exchange took place: KERRY: The president got $84 from a timber company that owns, and he's counted as a small business. That's how they do things. That's just not right. BUSH: I own a timber company? That's news to me. Need some wood? A funny exchange, intended to make Kerry look like a liar and/or an idiot. Only one problem...yes, the President does, in fact, own a timber company. Bush has part ownership of Lone Star Trust, which is an oil and gas company. Lone Star Trust owns 50% of another company, LSTF LLC. According to Bush himself, LSTF LLC is a company organized "for the purpose of the production of trees for commercial sales." So, according to Bush's own words, he DOES own a timber company. Guess he forgot!
  
• This one has been shown in news reports on different channels (at least in Europe). On June 12, 2001, US President Bush made an official visit to Spain. He met with Spain's first minister. In various speeches during the day, Bush called the first minister twice by the name "Mr. President" (I hope Bush knows a first minister is not a president. By the way, Bush also visited Spain's king later that day). Bush also did a speech in Spanish. During that speech he called the minister "Anzar", where his real name is Mr. "Aznar".
  
• This is a direct quote from Bush as printed in the Philadelphia Daily News when Bush visited Philadelphia in early May 2001:
  
• "For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it."
• Remarks to the troops of Fort Stewart, Georgia, February 12, 2001: "And America needs a military where our breast and brightest are proud to serve, and proud to stay."
  
• "We'll let the other countries of the world be the peacekeepers and the great country called America be the pacemakers." Well, medicine always was our specialty.