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"The public education system in America is one of the most important foundations of our democracy. After all, it is where children from all over America learn to be responsible citizens, and learn to have the skills necessary to take advantage of our fantastic opportunistic society." —Santa Clara, Calif., May 1, 2002

"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

"I'm not exactly aware of how fast or how not fast they're moving". —In response to a question about whether the Catholic Church has moved swiftly enough in response to recent cases of pedophelia by priests, Washington, DC, March 13, 2002

"Love your neighbor just like you'd like to like to be loved, yourself." —Speech, as reported in the Washington Post, April 10, 2002

"Love somebody just like they'd like to be loved themselves" —Speech, as reported in the Washington Post, April 10, 2002

"Make sure our neighbors are loved just like they'd like to be loved themselves" —Speech, as reported in the Washington Post, April 10, 2002

"And so, in my State of the - my State of the Union - or state - my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation - I asked Americans to give 4,000 years - 4,000 hours over the next - the rest of your life - of service to America. That's what I asked - 4,000 hours." —Bridgeport, Conn., April 9, 2002

"It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber."—Washington, D.C., April 10, 2002

"Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of 'Hop on Pop.'" —in a speech about childhood education, Washington, D.C., April 2, 2002

"We've tripled the amount of money - I believe it's from $50 million up to $195 million available." —Lima, Peru, March 23, 2002

"We've got pockets of persistent poverty in our society, which I refuse to declare defeat—I mean, I refuse to allow them to continue on. And so one of the things that we're trying to do is to encourage a faith-based initiative to spread its wings all across America, to be able to capture this great compassionate spirit." —O'Fallon, MO., Mar. 18, 2002

"The reason one has a nuclear arsenal is to serve as a deterrence. Secondly, ours is an administration that's committed to reducing the amount of warheads. And we're in consultations now with the Russians on such a - on this matter. We both agreed to reduce our warheads down to 22 -- 1,700 to 2,200. I talked with Sergei Ivanov yesterday, the minister of defense from Russia on this very subject. I think it's the right policy for America, and I know we can continue to do so and still keep a deterrence." —Washington, DC, March 13, 2002

"We're a peaceful nation, and you know we're moving along just right and kind of having a, you know, time, and all of a sudden we get attacked. And now we're at war, but we're at war to keep the peace". —Press Conference, Washington, DC, March 13, 2002

At Ford's Theatre Presidential Gala: When Stevie Wonder sat down at the keyboard center stage, President Bush in the front row got very excited. He smiled and started waving at Wonder, who understandably did not respond. After a moment Bush realized his mistake and slowly dropped the errant hand back to his lap. "I know I shouldn't have," a witness told us yesterday, "but I started laughing". —As reported by Lloyd Grove in the Washington Post, March 6, 2002

During a tour, [U.S. Lt. Col. William] Miller told Bush that axes used by North Korean soldiers to kill two US servicemen in 1976 were in a "peace museum" just across the border. Shaking his head in disgust, Bush said: "No wonder I think they're evil." —Reported by Ron Fournier, Associated Press, Panmunjom, Korea, Feb. 20, 2002

"My trip to Asia begins here in Japan for an important reason. It begins here because for a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times. From that alliance has come an era of peace in the Pacific." —George W. Bush, who apparently forgot about a little something called World War II. Tokyo, Feb. 18, 2002

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