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For any that listened to the Voice of Arizona Radio Show this Saturday, you may have missed the world premiere of the “Who Said That?” game. It came towards the end of the hour, and apparently the internet stream went out for the last 15 minutes, leaving everyone outside of a five block radius of the KPHX 1480 studio listening to static.
The game had a less than auspicious debut. Little know real-life quotes of our President, George W. Bush, were mixed in with infamous and notorious quotes of select fascists and dictators from the last century. I planned to read the quote, and then a caller from the studio audience would give it their best guess. We failed to produce the requisite ding-ding bell to reward a correct answer, or the annoying buzzer to herald a wrong answer. Additionally, in the interest of time, our fine hosts Mike and Michelle fielded my questions rather than the studio audience. Not surprisingly, they had a perfect score: we had rehearsed the quotes the night before, and they subconsciously retained the correct answers.
Well, you will just have to trust me when I say that it is both hilarious and frightening when you read these quotes at random to your friends and family and ask them to identify the speaker. I have included the full list of quotes compiled for the show, of which we only made it through the first four. Try it on someone, and see if he or she can pick out our President from the dictator. It’s not easy. If they get a question wrong, I have included a short list of additional quintessential Bushisms to ask as follow up questions. These may be low-lying fruit, but can be used to soothe a bruised ego.
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Who Said That?
There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country. - Bush
The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures. - Hitler
We seek the end of tyranny in our world. - Bush
It's up to history to judge. - Pol Pot
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. – Bush
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. - Stalin
God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [Hussein], which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. – Bush
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator. - Hitler
I'm the Commander. I do not need to explain why I say things. - Bush
I am responsible only to God and history. - Franco
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. – Bush
This year will go down in history. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future. - Hitler
Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking. - Idi Amin
I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch. – Bush
I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country - Pol Pot
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace. - Bush
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Low-lying fruit picked right off the Bush:
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
Most imports are from outside the country.
It’s clearly a budget. It’s got lots of numbers in it.
The thing that’s wrong with the French is that they don’t have a word for Entrepreneur.
The United States is looking forward to eating Indian mangos.
I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.
I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes.
See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over for the truth to sink in . . . to kind of catapult the propaganda.
Who Said That?
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"They misunderestimated me." Bentonville, Arkansas; November 6. 2000
“Actually, I – this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I’m talking about – when I’m talking about myself, and when he’s talking abut myself, al of us are talking about me.” Hardball; May 31, 2000
“”But I also made it clear to [Vladimir Putin] that it’s important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.” Washington, D.C.; May 1, 2001
“We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.” Gothenburg, Sweden; June 14, 2001
“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; May 22, 2001
“I want to thank the dozens of welfare-to-work stories, the actual examples of people who made the firm and solemn commitment to work hard to embetter themselves.” Washington, D.C.; April 18, 2002
“The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.” Interview with the New York Times; January 14, 2001
“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?” Florence, South Carolina; January 11, 2000
“I know something about being a government. And you’ve got a good one.” Stumping for Governor Mike Huckabee; Bentonville, Arkansas; November 4, 2002
“Perhaps one way will be, if we use military force, in the post-Saddam Iraq the U.N. will definitely need to have a role. And that way it can begin to get its legs, legs of responsibility back.” The Azores; March 16, 2003
“I’m also honored to be here with the Speaker of the House – just happens to be from the state of Illinois. I’d like to describe the Speaker as a trustworthy man. He’s the kind of fellow who says when he gives you his word he means it. Sometimes that doesn’t happen all the time in the political process.” Chicago; March 6, 2001
“I suspect that had my dad not been president, he’d be asking the same questions; How’d your meeting go with so-and-so?...How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address – state of the budget address, whatever you call it.” Interview with the Washington Post; March 9, 2001
“There’s no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I’ll never see it.” To Catholic leaders at the White House; January 31, 2001
“I understand that unrest in the Middle East creates unrest throughout the region.” Washington, D.C.; March 13, 2002
And that just takes us through January on my BUSHISMS calander!
I did hear the “Who said that” segment across the valley on my truck radio. I knew the Hitler one. Good stuff.
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