US President George W. Bush may be leaving the White House and into entering history books, but he has bequeathed to the nation and the world volumes of unforgettable quotes. Herewith are some of the more memorable Bush-isms:
"They misunderestimated me." - Bentonville, Arkansas, November 6, 2000
"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again." - Nashville, Tennessee, Sept. 17, 2002
"I want to thank my friend, Senator Bill Frist, for joining us today... He married a Texas girl, I want you to know. Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me." - Nashville, Tennessee, May 27, 2004
"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." - to Israeli journalists in Washington in an interview published May 12, 2008
"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." - Washington, June 18, 2002
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - Washington, August 5, 2004
"You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war president. No president wants to be a war president, but I am one." - Des Moines, Iowa
"For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times." - Tokyo, Feb. 18, 2002
"I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend." - on the prospect of visiting Denmark, Washington, June 29, 2005
"Thank you, Your Holiness. Awesome speech." - Washington, April 16, 2008 to Pope Benedict XVI
"I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office." - Washington, June 26, 2008
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." - Saginaw, Michigan, Sept. 29, 2000
"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country." - Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Sept. 6, 2004
"It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber." - Washington, April 10, 2002
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" - Florence, South Carolina, Jan. 11, 2000
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." - Townsend, Tennessee, Fen. 21, 2001
"Those who enter the country illegally violate the law." - Tucson, Arizona, November 28, 2005
"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them." - Washington, Sept. 11, 2001
"The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war." - Washington, Sept. 12, 2001
"I can hear you. I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." - New York, Sept. 14, 2001
"I want justice. There's an old poster out west, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive'." - Washington, Sept. 17, 2001
"Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." - Washington, Sept. 20, 2001
"States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world." - Washington, Jan. 29, 2002
