The Great “Miscommunicator”

1. "Kosovians can move back in."

2. "Keep good relations with the Grecians."

3. "If the East Timorians decide to revolt, I'm sure I'll have a

statement."

4. "It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet

earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice-

presidents."

5. "If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will

grow."

6. "Governor Bush will not stand for the subsidation of welfare."

7. "This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what

you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve."

8. "I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to

attract votes and to lead people toward a better tomorrow

somehow I get subscribed to some – some doctrine gets

subscribed to me.

9. "I don't want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I

on the bus 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving hundreds of speeches,

getting pillared in the press and cartoons and still staying on

message to win?

10. "Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and

negative ads."

11. "I'm very gracious and humbled."

12. "I did denounce it. I de – I denounced it. I denounced

interracial dating. I denounced anti-Catholic bigacy.

13. "This case has had a full analyzation and has been looked

at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty

cases."

14. "A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an

economic illness."

15. "I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of

humans."

16. "I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully

ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defence

system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to the

level commiserate with keeping

the peace."

17. "They said, `You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate

with the people.' And you know something? Whether it resignates

or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing the

right thing, and the right thing is hearing the voices of people who

work."

18. "They misunderestimated me."

19. "I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors."

20. "Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world:

Markets must open."

21. "Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself."

22. "Thirdly, the explorationists are willing to only move

equipment during the winter, which means they'll be on ice

roads, and remove the equipment as the ice begins to melt, so that

fragile tundra is protected."

23. "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."

24. "Over 75 per cent of white Americans own their home, and less than 50 per cent of Hispanos

and African-Americans don't own their home. And that's a

homeownership gap. And we've got to do something about it."

25. "There was no malfeance involved."

26. "I need to be able to move the right people to the right place at the right time to protect you, and I'm not going to accept a lousy bill out of the United Nations

Senate."

27. "The law I sign today directs new funds and new focus to the

task of collecting vital intelligence on terrorist threats

and on weapons of mass production."

28. "Columbia carried in its payroll classroom experiments from some of our students in

America."

29. "There was a time when many said that the cultures of

Japan and Germany were incapable of sustaining

democratic values. Well, they were wrong. Some say the

same of Iraq today. They are mistakened."

30. "We've got hundreds of sites to exploit, looking for the

chemical and biological weapons that we know Saddam Hussein had prior to our entrance into

Iraq."

31. "That's why I went to the Congress last September and

proposed fundamental – supplemental funding, which is

money for armour and body parts and ammunition and fuel."

32. "Do you realize we've got 250 million years' of coal?"

33. "It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of – and the allegations

– by people who were held in detention, people who hate

America, people that had been trained in some instances to

disassemble – that means not tell the truth."

34. "After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do."

35. "I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce

its desire to destroy Israel."

36. "We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental

challenge."

37. "My brother Jeb, the great governor of Texas."

38. "I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept

my tenants."

39. "How do you know if you don't measure, if you have a

system that simply suckles kids through?"

40. "We ought to make the pie higher."

• ANSWERS

1. Kosovars2. Greeks3. East Timorese 4. presumptuous 5. tariff barriers 6. subsidization 7. Perseverance Month 8. ascribed9. pilloried10. resort11. grateful12. bigotry13. analysis14. antidotes15. fallibility16. commensurate 17. resonate18. underestimated19. successors20. unequivocal21. itself22. explorers23. better24. Hispanics25. malfeasance26. United States Senate27. weapons of mass destruction28. payload29. mistaken30. explore31. body armour, not body parts32. presents33. 250, not 250 million34. dissemble35. perpetrators36. renounce37. Jeb Bush was governor of Florida, not Texas38. tenets39. coddles40. bigger