Bush Quote by Molly Ivins Download Open image “I intensely covered Bush when he was Governor of Texas.” — Molly Ivins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bush Governor He Intensely Texas
Big news from last night's Republican debate, you guys. It turns out George Bush was actually the smart Texas governor. — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
“Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention." [ Shrub Flubs His Dub… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have known George W. Bush slightly since we were both in high school, and I studied him closely as governor. He is neither… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
When George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney, it was a reassuring sign that the Texas governor would have an experienced, prudent voice at his… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
On election night 2000, I had never met then-Governor Bush, though I'd supported him for years. I believed he would be a strong, optimistic and gracious president with solid conservative principles and a big heart. — Dana Perino Copy Share
I'm sure I spent more time in Texas than anybody else who had run for President recently. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my… — Rick Perry Copy Share
I was governor of Kansas when Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts. — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in that state… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The administration of George W. Bush, emboldened by the Sept. 11 attacks and the backing of a Republican Congress, has sought to further extend… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Obama's policies have been approximately the same as Bush's, though there have been some slight differences, but that's not a great surprise. The Democrats… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We're half an hour from Toronto, which offers everything you could want from a city, and a couple of hours from beautiful vacation country.… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
You know, when George Bush talks about freedom not being America's gift to world but God's gift to all humankind, it smells like market… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time in the White House in the public areas where reporters are allowed to go, but I spoke to… — Jodi Kantor Copy Share Image
George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image