
Listen to audio clips of President Bush's dumbest quotes.
"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." George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002 Play or download
"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." George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
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"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 this country." George W. Bush, Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004 Play or download
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005 Play or download
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." George W. Bush, LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000 Play or download
"First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill." George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 19, 2003 Play or download
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." George W. Bush, at a photo-op with congressional leaders during his first trip to Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000 Play or download
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." George W. Bush, Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000 Play or download
"After standing on the stage, after the debates, I made it very plain, we will not have an all-volunteer army. And yet, this week — we will have an all-volunteer army!" George W. Bush, Daytona Beach, Fla., Oct. 16, 2004 Play or download
"Then you wake up at the high school level and find out that the illiteracy level of our children are appalling." George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004 Play or download
"Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I mean, you're a — you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities." George W. Bush, speaking at a gathering of minority journalists, Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004 Play or download