A few lines from George W Bush's two appearances last month on Fox News Sunday, giving us an unusual glimpse into the mind of this man (giving us about the same feeling as a glimpse of our parents "doing it"). Here now are the words of the man authorized to push "The Button":
“I think the experts would tell you we are not in recession. And they would tell you that there is a lot of uncertainty.”
"History takes a long time for us to reach. And there is no such thing as short-term history."
“Any president can make the decisions of how many troops we need (in Iraq). I mean, I could have increased troops or decreased troops in Korea, and we had a long-term security agreement… and so I — some of these arguments, I view, are — they just need to be — the people making these arguments need to think through exactly what they are saying.”
“I would say that they want to be very careful that we don't overstep our bounds from protecting the civil liberties of Americans. And I understand that, a lot.”
“listen, I no more want to trample the civil liberties of the American people than anybody else does.”
“History will be the judge of an administration… It's going to take a long time to figure it out and so this is all — I could give you a whole, I could give you reams of books about criticisms of my administration. I understand this.”
And last but not least, though the decision process was exhaustive, my personal favorite...
"It's very hard to write the future history of America before the current history hasn't been fully written."
More better words weren't never have been spoken.
