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"In terms of the economy, look, I inherited a recession, I am ending on a recession."

"So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression."

"I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system."

"This thaw -- took a while to thaw, it's going to take a while to unthaw."

"We're fixing to go down to Galveston and obviously are going to see a devastated part of this fantastic state."

"There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk -- that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras -- it got drunk and now it's got a hangover. The question is how long will it sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments."

"I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand -- but the president doesn't have a magic wand. You just can't say, 'low gas.'"

"The economy is growing, productivity is high, trade is up, people are working. It's not as good as we'd like, but -- and to the extent that we find weakness, we'll move."

"Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter." --George W. Bush, in parting words to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy at his final G-8 Summit, punching the air and grinning widely as the two leaders looked on in shock.

"Amigo! Amigo!" --George W. Bush, calling out to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Spanish at the G-8 Summit, Rusutsu, Japan.

"I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office."

"And so the fact that they purchased the machine meant somebody had to make the machine. And when somebody makes a machine, it means there's jobs at the machine-making place."

Chew before you swallow.
George W. Bush, On TV, about his passing out eating a pretzel

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/George_W._Bush

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms2007.htm