Bushisms 2001

Бушизмы, или перлы Джорджа Буша-младшего, как мне кажется, очень полезны для изучающих английский язык. Полезны в том плане, что учат, как нельзя говорить и тренируют внимательность и сообразительность, заставляя задуматься, какой же всё-таки смысл скрывался за грамматическими, стилистическими и прочими ошибками Буша.

Итак, год 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." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2000

"I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2000

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000

"Dick Cheney and I do not want this nation to be in a recession. We want anybody who can find work to be able to find work." --George W. Bush, 60 minutes II, CBS, December 5, 2000

"The great thing about America is everybody should vote." --George W. Bush, Austin, Texas, Dec. 8, 2000

"They misunderestimated me." --George W. Bush, Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

"If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything! If you don't stand for something, you don't stand for anything!" --George W. Bush, Bellevue Community College, Nov. 2, 2000

"Laura and I are proud to call John and Michelle Engler our friends. I know you're proud to call him governor. What a good man the Englers are." --George W. Bush, Nov. 2000

"I'm not really the type to wander off and sit down and go through deep wrestling with my soul." --George W. Bush, as quoted in Vanity Fair, October 2000

"Never again in the halls of Washington, D.C., do I want to have to make explanations that I can't explain." --George W. Bush, Portland, Oregon, Oct. 31, 2000

"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet." --George W. Bush, Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000

"Bill wrote a book at Yale. I read one." --George W. Bush, on William F. Buckley, Al Smith Dinner, New York City, Oct. 19, 2000

"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." --George W. Bush, LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

"It's your money. You paid for it." --George W. Bush, LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

"Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it." --George W. Bush, third presidential debate, St. Louis, Missouri, Oct. 18, 2000

"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun." --George W. Bush, third presidential debate, St. Louis, Missouri, Oct. 18, 2000

"Our priorities is our faith." --George W. Bush, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000

"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question." --George W. Bush, in response to a question about whether he wished he could take back any of his answers in the first debate. Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2000

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." --George W. Bush, Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000

"I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy." --George W. Bush, Redwood, Calif., Sept. 27, 2000

"The woman who knew that I had dyslexia --" I never interviewed her." --George W. Bush, responding to a magazine article claiming he suffered from dyslexia, Orange, Calif., Sept. 15, 2000

"The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some of their own money." --George W. Bush, Westminster, Calif., Sept. 13, 2000

"They have miscalculated me as a leader." --George W. Bush, Westminster, Calif., Sept. 13, 2000

"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness." --George W. Bush, in a CNN online chat, Aug. 30, 2000

"I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes." --George W. Bush, Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 21, 2000

"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together." --George W. Bush, Bartlett, Tenn., Aug. 18, 2000

"There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me." --George W. Bush, on the coming Social Security crisis, Wilton, Conn., June 9, 2000

"Actually, I --" this may sound a little West Texas 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." --George W. Bush, Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000

"I'm gonna talk about the ideal world, Chris. I've read --" I understand reality. If you're asking me as the president, would I understand reality, I do." --George W. Bush on abortion, MSNBC's "Hardball," May 31, 2000

"I think we agree, the past is over." --George W. Bush, on his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." --George W. Bush, Reuters, May 5, 2000

"The fact that he relies on facts --" says things that are not factual --" are going to undermine his campaign." --George W. Bush on Al Gore, New York Times, March 4, 2000

"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis." --George W. Bush, CNBC, 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." -George W. Bush, in Los Angeles as quoted by the Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000

"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating." --George W. Bush, U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 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 --" federal cufflink." --George W. Bush, at Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, March 30, 2000

"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature.'' --George W. Bush, Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000

"I understand small business growth. I was one." --George W. Bush, New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000

"Put the 'off' button on." --George W. Bush, February 14, 2000, giving advice to parents troubled by the graphic fare on television

"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case." --George W. Bush, Pella, Iowa, as quoted by the San Antonio Express-News, Jan. 30, 2000

"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" --George W. Bush, Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000

"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." --George W. Bush, Iowa Western Community College, Jan 21, 2000

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mential losses." --George W. Bush, speaking at a South Carolina oyster roast, Jan. 14, 2000

"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself." --George W. Bush, as quoted in the Financial Times, Jan. 14, 2000

"Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" --George W. Bush, Florence, South Carolina, Jan. 11, 2000

"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures." --George W. Bush, Jan. 3, 2000

Постов, посвящённых бушизмам, планируется ещё много. Благо, тема обширная))

Кстати говоря, в блоге есть гаджет, позволяющий любоваться изысками речи Буша на примере отдельного бушизма