Month: January 2009

Bye bye George W. Bush

A couple of nice articles about the outgoing president:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7809160.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7814704.stm
Here are my favourite quotes:
“The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the – the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.”
Washington DC, 27 October, 2003
“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.”
Townsend, Tennessee, 21 February, 2001
“It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.”
Reuters, 5 May, 2000