Goodbye George! The 21 All Time Stupidest Quotes From Bush

On Tuesday America will be inaugurating Barack Obama as the new president of the United States. He has set many high goals for himself, but one thing he probably will never be able to do is to match the number of stupid quotes that George W. Bush has uttered during his 8 years as president.

Just check out these 21 beauties.....

#1) "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004

#2) "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." —Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004

#3) "I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." -George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008

#4) "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

#5) "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter." -George W. Bush, in parting words to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the G-8 Summit, punching the air and grinning widely as the two leaders looked on in shock, Rusutsu, Japan, July 10, 2008

#6) "So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory -- and success." -George W. Bush, on Iraq, Washington, D.C., April 17, 2008

#7) "The question is, who ought to make that decision? The Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear -- I'm a commander guy." -George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007

#8) "As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured." -George W. Bush, on the No Child Left Behind Act, Washington, D.C., Sept. 26, 2007

#9) "More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way." -George W. Bush, Martinsburg, W. Va., July 4, 2007

#10) "The German asparagus are fabulous." -George W. Bush, Meseberg, Germany, June 11, 2008

#11) "I'm going to try to see if I can remember as much to make it sound like I'm smart on the subject." -George W. Bush, answering a question about a possible flu pandemic, Cleveland, July 10, 2007

#12) "We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood." -George W. Bush, Kranj, Slovenia, June 10, 2008

#13) "Should the Iranian regime-do they have the sovereign right to have civilian nuclear power? So, like, if I were you, that's what I'd ask me. And the answer is, yes, they do." -George W. Bush, talking to reporters in Washington, D.C., July 2, 2008

#14) "I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand -- but the president doesn't have a magic wand. You just can't say, 'low gas.'" -George W. Bush, Washington D.C., July 15, 2008

#15) "Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have helped transform 13 small colonies into a great and growing nation of more than 300 people." -George W. Bush, Charlottesville, Va., July 4, 2008

#16) "There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk -- that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras -- it got drunk and now it's got a hangover. The question is how long will it sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments." -George W. Bush, speaking at a private fundraiser, Houston, Texas, July 18, 2008

#17) "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." —LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

#18) "I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft." —second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004

#19) "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." —Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000

#20) "You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." —to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

#21) "They misunderestimated me." —Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000