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Great Moments in Presidential Speeches

Update: From David Letterman’s “Great Moments” re-cap on January 16, 2009:

I ran across this page at Rawstory.com and decided to replicate it here, although I already have a similar page up in my Quotes section of the blog. Needless to say, I’m trying to help celebrate the end of the Bush Presidency… w00t, January 20th! Can’t get here soon enough!

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“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, September 17, 2002

“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.

“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

“For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times,”
— Tokyo, February 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, September 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, September 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, January 11, 2000

“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test,”
— Townsend, Tennessee, February 21, 2001

“My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended… The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free,”
— USS Abraham Lincoln at sea off the coast of San Diego, California, May 1, 2003

“I’m the decider, and I decide what is best. And what’s best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of Defense,”
— Washington, April 18, 2006

6 Replies to “Great Moments in Presidential Speeches”

  1. There is really nothing to say. I wonder if many groups will be inviting W to make speeches – as former presidents often are. Hard to imagine. Can’t wait for Letterman tonight.

  2. I watched some special on the White House. They interviewed Bush and he kept talking about how he always has visitors that come in to his house and weep in his presence. He tries to convince them that he’s a human, he says.

    Even carefully edited television programming can’t cast the man in a good light.

  6. I think it’s important to be critical of whoever is president. I’m just glad the current one will make us work a little harder to come up with jokes.

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