Dumbglish?

"Dick Cheney and I do not want this nation to be in a recession. We want anybody who can find work to be able to find work."--on 60 Minutes II; 12/05/00

"Arbolist...Look up the word. I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees."--as quoted in USA Today; 8/21/01

"If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all."--remarks to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund Institute; Washington, DC; 5/22/01

"The reason I believe in a large tax cut is because it's what I believe."--Washington; 12/18/00

I think we agree, the past is over."--on his meeting with John McCain, as quoted in The Dallas Morning News; 5/10/00