Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

George W. Bush: Self

Quotes 

• George W. Bush : This is an impressive crowd: the haves, and the have-mores.

  [crowd laughs] 

  George W. Bush : Some people call you the elite, I call you my base.

• Narrator : The first time I met him, he had some good advice for me.

  Michael Moore : [Calling out]  Governer Bush, it's Michael Moore!

  George W. Bush : Behave yourself, will ya? Go find real work!

• George W. Bush : I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you.

  [George W. Bush brandishes a golf club] 

  George W. Bush : Now, watch this drive.

• George W. Bush : [on Saddam Hussein]  He hates the fact, like Al Qaeda does, the we love freedom.

• George W. Bush : We wage a war to save civilization itself. We did not seek it. But, we will fight it. And we will prevail.

• [President George W. Bush is a news conference] 

  George W. Bush : [Regarding the capture of Osama bin Laden]  I just don't spend that much time on it, to be honest.

  Narrator : 'Don't spend that much time on it?' Just what kind of President was he?

  [Cut to the Oval Office, where Bush is being interviewed] 

  George W. Bush : I'm a war President!

• [last lines] 

  George W. Bush : There's an old saying in Tennessee. I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says: "Fool me once... "

  George W. Bush : [pause] 

  George W. Bush : "... shame on... ".

  George W. Bush : [pause] 

  George W. Bush : "Shame on you... "

  George W. Bush : [pause] 

  George W. Bush : "If fooled, you can't get fooled again."

  Narrator : For once, we agreed.

• George W. Bush : Sure a dictatorship would be easier.

• George W. Bush : There are some who feel like that if they attack us that we may decide to leave prematurely. They don't understand what they are talking about if that's the case. Let me finish. There are some who feel like that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is bring 'em on.

• George W. Bush : [on the Iraqi insurgency]  They're not happy they're occupied. I wouldn't be happy if I were occupied either.

• George W. Bush : [Explaining his extended vacation time]  It's amazing what can be done with telephones, faxes...

• [President Bush is on vacation and is bird hunting] 

  George W. Bush : Somebody gonna say "nice shot"?

  Aide : Nice shot.

• [on Saddam Hussein] 

  George W. Bush : After all, this is a guy who tried to kill my dad at one time.