George W. Bush Quotes
My opponents can't get elected unless things get worse. And things aren't going to get worse unless they get elected.
George W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (Republican, TX), Campaign Speech, Portland, November, 1988
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Most people want to be on the winning side, so as a candidate does better in the polls, more people try to get on the bandwagon. Prospective donors use polls very often to decide to whom to give money. Just as important a factor is the media. They want to cover the candidates that most people are interested in reading about or seeing on TV. They use public opinion polls to help make that judgment. Starting in 2015, when there were almost 20 candidates for the Republican Presidential nomination, the networks running the debates used the public opinion polls to determine which candidate could even participate in the nationally televised debates. All these show how polls can effect reality.
The money comparison refers to Gresham's Law. See Thomas Gresham.
Explaining his reasons for staging a military coup in the Sudan:
The George W. Bush re-election campaign tactics were so polarizing that the two parties would not work together thereafter and little was accomplished at a time when the Bush administration had led the country into terrible problems. Ironically, what seemed like a brilliant re-election for a Republican Administration in retrospect caused an atmosphere where the voters ousted the Republican control margin in 2006, and by the election of 2008, Bush had the lowest approval rating of any President in history, and many historians felt he had become the worst President in American History.
Hoover had to cope with the Great Depression. His administration was hapless in improving the economy as he was in a philosophical bind in that he was opposed in principle to doing almost anything that would help the situation. He just did not believe that government should engage in the activities that were necessary. His 1932 campaign had him trying to explain his thinking as to why government should not do much. Stimson and many other Republicans disagreed as so many Americans were suffering so badly. However, most publicly supported their party’s President even as many had private misgivings. Hoover was thrown out of office in an FDR landslide win. His policies government activist policies and programs improved the economy but it tool almost a decade to recover.
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He was born into the Bush family; his father, George H. W. Bush, was the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
