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===General=== * "I think we agree, the past is over."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2000/05/bushisms-of-the-week.html|title=Bushisms of the Week|date=2000-05-11|website=Slate Magazine|language=en|access-date=2019-10-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Subdued McCain Endorses Bush|last=Jackson, David and Wayne Slater.|date=May 10, 2000|work=The Dallas Morning News}}</ref> – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 10, 2000; to his former [[2000 Republican Party presidential primaries|primary election]] rival [[John McCain]] * "We can have filters on [[Internets]] where public money is spent."{{snd}}during his third Presidential debate with [[Al Gore]], October 17, 2000<ref>{{cite web | title = Transcript of the third Gore-Bush presidential debate | publisher = Commission on Presidential Debates | date = 2000-10-17 | url = http://www.debates.org/index.php?page=october-17-2000-debate-transcript | access-date = August 12, 2024}}</ref> * "They misunderestimated me."{{snd}}[[Bentonville, Arkansas]], November 6, 2000.<ref name="Time_Misunderestimate">{{cite magazine |date=January 11, 2009 |title=Top Ten Bushisms: The Miseducation of America |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1870938_1870943_1870945,00.html |access-date=March 2, 2009 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref> * "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."{{snd}}[[Saginaw, Michigan]], September 29, 2000; while expressing opposition to removing dams to protect endangered fish species<ref name=Time_PeopleFish>{{cite magazine |access-date=August 12, 2024 |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1870938_1870943_1870961,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090118230812/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1870938_1870943_1870961,00.html |url-status=live |archive-date=January 18, 2009 |title=Top 10 Bushisms: Fish Are Friends |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=January 11, 2009}}</ref> * "Families is where nations find hope, where wings take dream." [[La Crosse, Wisconsin]], October 18, 2000<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2009-01-11 |title=Top 10 Bushisms - TIME |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1870938_1870943_1870962,00.html |access-date=2024-11-15 |magazine=Time |language=en-US |issn=0040-781X}}</ref> * "There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, '[[wikt:fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me|Fool me once, shame on...shame on you.]]' Fool me—you can't get fooled again."<ref name="WhitehouseArchives_FoolMe">{{cite journal |access-date=December 18, 2010 |url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020917-7.html |title=Remarks by the President on Teaching American History and Civic Education |journal=White House Archives |date=September 17, 2002}}</ref>{{snd}}[[Nashville, Tennessee]], September 17, 2002. * "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many [[Obstetrics and gynaecology|OB-GYNs]] aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country."<ref name=Time_OBGYNlove>{{cite magazine |access-date=March 2, 2009 |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1870938_1870943_1870953,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090119084836/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1870938_1870943_1870953,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 19, 2009 |title=Top Ten Bushisms: The Love Doctor is In |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=January 11, 2009}}</ref>{{snd}}[[Poplar Bluff, Missouri]], September 6, 2004 * "I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an [[Authoritarianism|authoritarian]] voice saying exactly what happened." – while announcing he would write [[Decision Points|a book]] about "the 12 toughest decisions" he had to make.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bush Speech In Canada Met With Protests |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-speech-in-canada-met-with-protests/ |year=2009 |work=CBS News}}</ref> * "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the [[propaganda]]."<ref name="Simran Khurana">see (item number "26.", of) {{cite web|last=Kelly|first=Martin|date=June 22, 2016|title=The 40 Dumbest Bush Quotes of All Time|url=https://www.thoughtco.com/dumbest-bush-quotes-of-all-time-2734076|url-status=live|access-date=May 23, 2017|publisher=[[Dotdash]].com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511143110/https://www.thoughtco.com/dumbest-bush-quotes-of-all-time-2734076 |archive-date=2017-05-11 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/bushisms/2005/05/bushism_of_the_day_2.html |first=Jacob|last=Weisberg |title=Bushism of the Day |magazine=Slate |date=May 25, 2005}}</ref> * "I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this [[Oval Office]]." – Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008; in an interview with ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]''.<ref name = bbcmisunder/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/stupidquotes/a/dumbquotes2008.htm |first=Daniel |last=Kurtzman |title=The 25 Dumbest Quotes of 2008 |publisher=About.com |access-date=December 11, 2014 |archive-date=April 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150406223454/http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/stupidquotes/a/dumbquotes2008.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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