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Quotes - This Day in Dubya History (July 9) (What did Dubya say on today's date in previous years?)
There are 15 quotes on this date.
Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.
Dubya's attempt at a joke at the conclusion of the G8 conference in Japan. What made it fall flat (besides the person telling the joke) was its inherent truth. And the fist punch in the air and wide grin he followed it up with probably didn't help, either. Toyako, Japan, Jul. 9, 2008 One good reason to put me back in there for four more years is so that Laura will be the First Lady. Thank you. I married well. What a fabulous woman she is.
Kutztown, Pennsylvania, Jul. 9, 2004 Pennsylvania's unemployment rate is 5.1 percent. That's good news for people who are trying to find jobs.
It's not exactly good news until those people have found jobs, Dubya. Smoketown, Pennsylvania, Jul. 9, 2004 I went to the United Nations and said, he's [Saddam Hussein is] a threat. And they agreed with the fact that he was a threat, by a 15 to nothing vote in the United Nations Security Council. See, the world spoke. Not only America speak, the world spoke.
You would think the last sentence would have been the easiest one to deliver, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, Jul. 9, 2004 People were nervous during the recession. Then we got attacked, and I'm going to talk a little bit about making America safer. But we got attacked on September 11th. It hurt our economy. In other words, you're in a recession, then we have an attack.
Well, that really makes sense (especially the shift from "we" to "you" and back to "we"), Smoketown, Pennsylvania, Jul. 9, 2004 I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job.
Dubya: Mouthpiece of God. Statement made during campaign visit to Amish community, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Jul. 9, 2004 And today, I'm able to sit down with the Prime Minister of Japan and discuss key issues like North Korea. In other words, a former enemy — former enemies sit at a table together and say, how can we work to keep the peace, because there were people that preceded me that had great faith in the ability of freedom to change societies.
Yes, we fixed the Japanese people and made them better... Is it just me, or is that what it sounds like? Smoketown, Pennsylvania, Jul. 9, 2004 REPORTER: Do you still believe they [the Iraqis] were trying to buy nuclear materials in Africa?
DUBYA: Right now? REPORTER: No, were they? The statement you made — DUBYA: One thing is for certain, he's not trying to buy anything right now. A typically smarmy response to a serious question (note the subtle shift from "they" to "he"), which he used to avoid acknowledging the fact that Iraq wasn't trying to buy nuclear materials in Africa at any time in recent history (although Dubya cited the alleged nuclear shopping spree as a justification for war in his State of the Union address), Pretoria, South Africa, Jul. 9, 2003 There's no doubt in my mind that when it's all said and done the facts will show the world the truth. There's going to be, you know, a lot of attempts to try to rewrite history, and I can understand that. But I'm absolutely confident in the decision I made.
Dubya trying to deflect criticism about the lack of WMD in Iraq, and the veracity of information he and his administration presented as fact in the build up to war, Pretoria, South Africa, Jul. 9, 2003 A free, peaceful Zimbabwe has got the capacity to deliver a lot of goods and services which are needed on this continent in order to help aleve suffering.
Confusing "alleviate" with "Aleve" brand pain reliever, Pretoria, South Africa, Jul. 9, 2003 I'm not — not any intention of second-guessing his tactics. We share the same outcome.
On South African President Thabo Mbeki, with whom Dubya apparently shares an outcome (?), Pretoria, South Africa, Jul. 9, 2003 We've made that commitment. I've said it clearly more than one time. Like yesterday in Senegal, for example. So nothing has changed from about 12 hours ago on that question.
So, apparently Dubya will only field a question once, and after that, he'll be irritated from having to go back and repeat himself, even if he's in a different country answering questions from a different reporter, Pretoria, South Africa, Jul. 9, 2003 REPORTER: The NAACP is meeting this week in Houston, as you probably know. And there's been some criticism that you've not attended their convention since the 2000 campaign. How would you respond to that, and respond generally to suggestions from some critics that your civil rights record in the administration is not a stellar one?
DUBYA: Let's see. There I was, sitting around the leader with — the table with foreign leaders, looking at Colin Powell and Condi Rice. This incomplete sentence was the only answer Dubya provided to this question, and seems to suggest, "Hey, I've got two colored people in positions of authority in my administration, what more do they want?" White House, Jul. 9, 2002 Yet when a company uses deception — deception accounting to hide reality, executives should lose all their compensation — all their compensation — gained by the deceit.
Dubya coins a new phrase here: "deception accounting", New York, New York, Jul. 9, 2002 Secretary Powell has won the Presidential Medal of Freedom twice — once with distinction. I'm not sure what happened the other time.
Perhaps said in jest, nevertheless a classic example of the Dubya backhanded compliment, Washington, D.C., Jul. 9, 2002 |
