Bush's Comments

Comments made during his address on Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative at the Pennsylvania Convention Center (Philadelphia, PA), May 14, 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"

Said during an informal meeting with journalists in Rome, Italy, July 22, 2001:

"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe - I believe what I believe is right."

Statement while speaking at President’s Economic Forum, Waco, Texas, August 13, 2002:

"I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn’t here."

Remarked during a presidential debate in St. Louis, MO, October 18, 2000:

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

Commented while meeting with journalists aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003:

"I’m also not very analytical. You know I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things."

Stated at the Signing of H.R. 4613, the Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2005, Room 350, Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building, August 5, 2004:

"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."

Said at a presidential campaign stop in Florence, SC, January 11, 2000:

"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"

In response to a question about why he hadn’t spent more time in New Hampshire during the presidential campaign, Oct. 22, 1999:

"The important question is, how many hands have I shaked."

Quoted by the New York Daily News, April 23, 2002"

"This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating"

Remarks at Unity: Journalists of Color convention in Washington, D.C., August 6, 2004

"Tribal sovereignty means just that, it’s sovereign. You’re a — you’ve been given sovereignty, and you’re viewed as a sovereign entity. And, therefore, the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities"