""This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all."" As the end of the Bush era approaches, the legacy is clear: George W. Bush is a wartime president. His enemy, battered but not defeated after repeated surges: the English language. The ultimate edition of "George W. Bushisms" captures this legacy -- from the Gulf Coast to Iraq and back -- with all-new pearls of wisdom and the twenty-five greatest hits of the entire presidency.
""You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war president. No president wants to be a war president, but I am one.""
""I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?" "