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I'm amazed that you could have the greatest portrait in the United States, of George Washington; you could have the Declaration of Independence desk, the desk on which it was written; you could have the hat that Abraham Lincoln had on the day he died, in buildings that really not only possibly endanger them, but the American people coming to look at them.

Imagine a nineteenth-century Jane Fonda visiting the Oglala Sioux in the Black Hills before the battle at Little Big Horn. Imagine her examining Crazy Horse's arrows or climbing upon Sitting Bull's horse. Such behavior by a well-known actress no doubt would have infuriated Gen. George Armstrong Custer, but what would the rest of us feel today?

I have a lot of friends that work for George Lucas, who spent 30 years of their lives making furry little critters run around and talk, ... And they've always believed that some of that technology should be used to tell a story that's slightly more real.

I have a lot of respect for George Washington. We played well tonight, but had more turnovers than we would have liked and missed really important free throws. This was a very important non-conference win for us that will pay dividends down the road and as we begin ACC play on Monday.

I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.

I had a show at George Krevsky Gallery this past spring. That show traveled to Woodstock, New York where it showed for six weeks.

I have been loyal to our Republican leaders here in Florida and in our nation's capital - from Jeb Bush to President George Bush. ... And I have been loyal to the Republican Party and my constituents who elected me to work tirelessly for their best interest. Today I am asking you to return that same loyalty to me by helping fund my U.S. Senate campaign.

I have actually lost a couple of roles - film roles - because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box.

I have just seen George Clooney outside and thought that was quite cool.

I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.

I have never been to a funeral like that before. It was beautiful and George and his family got the respect he deserved. I shed a few tears myself.

I have lived the American dream, and I am determined to ensure the possibility of that dream for others, ... I am here to ask you to re-elect President George W. Bush ... I believe in George Bush's idea of 'compassionate conservatism.' From the time I first heard him talk about it, I said, 'compassionate conservatism is the story of my life.'

I hate to make this point too often, but imagine for a moment George W. Bush were on his sixth vacation, and he was asked about Iraq, and he said 'I'm buying shrimp.' You think that wouldn't be a headline everywhere?

I find it ironic, when he ran for the senate, one of the first things he did was run to George Ryan to get his advice.

I feel so good, (even) with my own sadness. I can only imagine, and probably better than most, the feeling they must have in that locker room and on that campus. Those kids, many of them were passed over by Big East schools and others, and I tip my hat to their courage ... to the incredible coaching job that Jimmy did and to everybody at George Mason University. ... I applaud them. I share in some degree Jimmy's joy because as a friend, I know what he must be feeling in his heart.

I can't imagine trying to second guess what George Plimpton would do, ... The magazine has this tremendous tailwind moving it along, but there also has to be room to reconnect to a new time. These new articles will have a distinctive flavor and will address themselves to the world at large.

I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really on the cards.

Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie,he was worth his weight in gold.

Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold.

Frankly, I was worried about George throwing a strike. (His pitch) was a little high and it was either inside or outside, there wasn't a batter, so we don't know.

From a big-picture point of view, they've been working on a bunch of stuff and everything seems to be going to plan and on budget. The thing that they seem be over budget with is the Denver refinery, and Rick George mentioned he's about 30 percent over.

From 2002 to the end of his presidency, George W. Bush routinely was accused by the Left of 'creating chaos:' chaos in Iraq, chaos in Afghanistan, chaos in the Muslim world, chaos among our allies.

From our perspective, he's done a yeoman's job of bringing a very attractive and a very acceptable and large number of people each week. The thing about George that distinguishes him from almost every other star we work with is that he has literally been involved with every single stage of development and execution of the series.

From George Jones to Michael Jackson, he just knew it all.

If anyone in the world had a doubt .Ê.Ê. that sectors of the U.S. government have been planning President Hugo Chavez's assassination, those doubts surely have been cleared up through the criminal act by a personality very close to President George W. Bush, who has a lot of influence in the current U.S. administration.

If anyone believes that they don't know George very well. I think it's a case of the ventriloquist and the dummy. George will be pulling the strings.

If, at the end of that process, George Bush is the victor, we will respect the result.

I don't think we're going to beat George Bush by trying to be like him,

I don't want George W. Bush to utilize my son's sacrifice to justify the killing,

I don't use my celebrity to make a living. I don't do ads for suits in Spain like George Clooney or cigarettes in Japan like Harrison Ford . To me, it is kind of sacrilegious. It's a complete contradiction of the social contract you have with your audience. I mean, Robert De Niro advertising American Express. Gee whiz, it's not the first time he's disappointed me. It's been happening for a while.

I don't understand why, to rise to the level of being president of my country, one has to be a monster. I used to say that George Bush was defiling the Oval Office, but it's been held by a long line of monsters. We don't have to support our administrations to love our country.

I envisioned putting in a second seat. Then I could experience everything and I wouldn't have to worry. Then we started talking, drew it up and presented it to (IRL president) Tony George in 1999. He thought the idea was good as long as the cars were real.

I don't think our guys are upset or bothered by it. That's something that's beyond their control. People can talk about the George Mason story and rightfully so. It's a great story that I think will inspire many people outside of college basketball.

For two days, George (Karl) has been constantly stressing that this is a team that we'll be playing against. We kind of wanted to make a statement that if we play you in the playoffs, this is what you're going to see.

For two days George has been stressing that if the playoffs started tomorrow this is the team we would play against. We wanted to make a statement.

For whatever reason, they're following George Bush's Rasputin,

For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it slid painlessly into the past, like any other year. Big Brother arrived and settled in, though not at all in the way George Orwell had imagined.

For most of the game, we handled (the pressure) pretty well. But there was a stretch there where we threw a couple of errant passes and a couple bad decisions. When you play a good team like George Washington, they're going to convert on those.

If it turns out that George Bush doesn't get elected, once a party has run three times, like the Democrats after 1980, 1984 and 1988, they begin to see the light and say, 'We have to change,' ... Well if the Republicans lose this year ... they are going to be looking at John McCain and saying, 'Maybe he's got something to say, maybe we should listen to him a little bit harder,' and I think he's well-prepared for that outcome.

I got a call saying that George Lucas wanted to meet me. Of all the phone calls I've received - Oliver Stone wants to meet you; Spike Lee wants to meet you - that was the one call I never in a million years thought was going to happen.

If what you are asking is, has George Bush as president of the United States established priorities in spending for his administration? The answer is yes. That is a prerogative that presidents have.

If we aren't viable, we will reach out to all campaigns, ... Because this is not about cutting secret deals, this is about beating George Bush.

He won't be there physically to share it with me, but I know he'll be looking down on me. I'm just thankful and blessed that I had George in my life. We started out as friends, then grew to be best friends and then we started doing everything together, workouts, going to the movies, going to parties. We did everything two brothers would do.

He's confronting a real problem that most of the people here in St. George aren't willing to confront.

He's clearly not going to take more votes away from George Bush than he is from John Kerry,

He had nothing to do with it. It was the ticket office who put it up. They sold all the seats, and they felt that if there were any complaints, people should call the commissioner. But George said they were going to take it down.

He has to pander to the masses in the same way George Bush does in the United States. But in this country they don't talk about religion and God. They talk about keeping certain precious assets in the hands of the French.

He does a lot of different voices and mannerisms of famous people. He does a slow turn around and his body becomes like George Burns or Arnold Schwarzenegger or the person he's imitating,

Having George meet with him -- he doesn't meet with people just for the sake of meeting them. He's certainly thinking in terms of helping our ball club.

Having covered some half a hundred cities, towns, villages, and wide spots in the road during the last tow years, George and I fairly wallowed in the comfort of our own home base.

Having been there - I repeat, having been there - I do not wish jail for any person. I really feel sorry for George and his family. ... I wish no man to have that and no man to have that disgrace that I had.

Whatever our politics, whatever our religion, George Best has helped us find our common humanity.

Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush and his unilateralist crew, most of the people laughing at us do not think we are evil. What they think is that we are naive and incompetent.

We talked about there being no way we could overlook this game. Obviously, we have a top 10 team in George Washington coming up, and it would have been easy for them to come out and not play hard, but they came out focused and played even harder in the second half.

We are extremely proud of the accomplishments of our students with respect to Stifel Award activity, ... This type of program is one of the areas that will propel students to academic excellence, even through their college years. This program, under the leadership of the late George E. Stifel, has encouraged many, many children in our community to achieve above and beyond the normal process, and we are quite proud of their accomplishments.

Today George Bush is laughing again. Over 1,000 Americans have lost their lives. Americans are being beheaded. Iraq is a mess, and they think this is a joke. It is clear they have no idea how to protect our troops, but they will do anything to protect their jobs.

He's achieving all the things he wanted to and more. And at a storybook level when you're at George Mason.

He's been consistently among the best players at both Super 14 and Test level for a number of seasons and it is a huge boost to the team to have George with us for another three seasons.

Under President Obama, we have spent more money - he has spent more money than any other president in this history, actually, the combined total from Washington up to George W. Bush. President Obama has racked up more spending, $1 trillion deficits. And it's time that he join us in this effort to get our fiscal house in order.

Under his leadership, we will come closer to solving the problems I mentioned earlier, and under the leadership of George W. Bush, it is not even close,

Hurricane Katrina ripped the mask off of George Bush's America,

Hurricane Katrina is George Bush's Monica Lewinsky. One difference, and I'll say this, the only difference is this: That tens of thousands of people weren't stranded in Monica Lewinsky's vagina. That is the only difference.

He was expressing the wishes of the U.S. elite, ... If anything happens to me, then the man responsible will be George W. Bush. He will be the assassin.

I admire him so much; if I was ever going to have a dude-crush, it would be on George Clooney. I mean, I don't think you can avoid it. It's like a superpower - he just sucks anybody in around him.

I also stressed the importance the American administration attaches to both sides for fulfilling their obligations under the security work plan put together by George Tenet,

He is very closely associated with Bush in the public mind, and George Bush, rightly or wrongly, is fantastically unpopular in Britain. And so to get rid of him would be like getting rid of the millstone round his neck.

'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

has a lot more Washington experience than George Bush had four years ago.

Handed a once-in-a-generation opportunity to return the Supreme Court to constitutionalism, George W. Bush passed over a dozen of the finest jurists of his day -- to name his personal lawyer,

I would say it's more to do with George Bush than a potential Liberal victory in Canada. That's one, two, three times Bush has been declared victorious and the market likes that.

I would say to those people, there's going to be one of two people who win this election. It's either Al Gore or George Bush, and only Al Gore will fight to protect a woman's right to choose, fight for the environment, fight against big pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies.

John Ashcroft is not a friend of liberty and justice. George Bush, the appointed president, is not someone who ---prior to a month ago--- ever demonstrated any insight or acuity about the world around him. Have these men been born again, again?

John Kerry's position and my position are not very different about what we would do. Interestingly enough, neither is George Bush's position because George Bush adopted John Kerry's position after John Kerry won the primaries.

John Kerry has fought again and again to extend unemployment benefits for workers left behind in the Bush economy. The reason we haven't succeeded is because George Bush opposes extending unemployment insurance, and so do his allies.

I talk to Julius every day. He's just got to be patient. George is going to get on him a lot, but it's for the best. He only wants him to get better. I try to talk to him and tell him to fight through it.

Italian voters are not going to be overly impressed by television footage of Berlusconi with George Bush. The overriding issue in these elections is the economy. In 2001, Italians voted for Berlusconi because he promised they would be better off: actually they feel worse off.

I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,

I thought we were really back on our heels from the jump and didn't really compete with a very, very good George Washington team in the first half at all.

It is a daunting case, no doubt about it, ... I think Governor Ryan is lucky he's got the best trial lawyer in America. If my life were on the line, Dan Webb's the guy I would want. I told George that.

I thought George threw a lot of things defensively at us that took us a while to adjust to. Our league is so tough every night, so you have to be pleased with a win any time you can get it.

I thought George Mason really played well offensively and was really on from the outside and also pretty effective inside. So we're going to have to have a balanced effort on defense and try to take away their effectiveness both inside and outside.

I think you have to give George Mason a lot of credit. They took it to us early, kicked our butts inside and shot 70 percent on us with eight or nine minutes to go in the second half. ... I've got to say that in my nine years, this is one of the more disappointing evenings I've had in this job.

I think you have a good idea there, which is really strange. I think we should go hunting for it, but I've never been a hunter. I've got to see if George (Karl) has ever hunted before.

I think the fact that the election is so close is having an effect on the Dow. It's (the race) so close here that little bits of nuances like a 24-year-old story on George W. Bush is having an effect on stocks.

I think the Gore campaign has made an enormous issue of the fact that George is not smart, ... Did Al Gore graduate from law school, did Al Gore graduate from divinity school? No.

Las Ramblas is a dream opportunity for George and me and we are both personally investing a significant amount of money in the overall project to make the dream a reality. We have also each committed to buy residential units in the project. We have discussed developing a project in Las Vegas for the past two years and, after considering many opportunities, are excited to build our vision with Related and Centra and contribute to the ever-growing, dynamic city of Las Vegas. With a complex of buildings situated in an environment unlike any other built in Las Vegas, we are excited to add a new dimension to the city's sophistication and glamour.

I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons. I learned how to listen to George Jones records and the Louvin Brothers.

I was asked to do score by the Director, who was a charming Canadian, a really nice guy, George Dunning was his name. He's dead now, unfortunately.

I think we panicked a little bit. George Mason is a great team, and with the way they came out shooting the ball tonight, it really put us in a hole and kind of got us on our heels.

I think we were equally matched the last time. George has improved since then and we have improved since the first game. It will come down to which team makes the fewest mistakes.

I think what really made (the film) happen was that in 1977 George Lucas released 'Star Wars,'

I think what George Mason has done this NCAA tournament has been a milestone and a breakthrough in college basketball. There's been so many programs that have been close. ... I just think in my opinion right now, when you talk about the word 'mid-major' or you talk about the word 'major,' there's no more of that to me. I think those days are over with.

I think what George Mason has done is the greater accomplishment. Once Penn was by North Carolina, because of the other upsets they were playing teams that were comparable to them and teams they knew they could beat.

I think Americans will begin to see a rejuvenated Dan Quayle with great campaign skills, ... George Bush has done a good job of building interest, but now he has the tough job of rising to those expectations.

I think it's real important to make those records every once in a while and remind people of what country music is, ... The roots where it came from, where we got what we have. This is sort of a throwback to Dolly, George Jones, Merle Haggard. That's my favorite kind of music. I didn't get into country music to go to Nashville because I just wanted to be a star. I went there because I had such a passion for that kind of music.

It got a little crazy by the end. George (Crocker) was handing out sausages to random people near the end.

I think we can all agree that Colin Firth falls into the George Clooney category of 'Men Who Age Like Fine Wine.'

I think they were being kind saying that. Murrow read his stuff, so I had that ace in the hole. If I froze in front of the camera, I could always just look down. But George said, 'We want you looking at the camera a little bit more than reading, OK?' ... And it was scary.

It is not possible for me to explain just how wonderful it is to see this house that George Exxon Bush and the moral majority built on the sand come toppling down.

I think that we want to give Eisley a fair shake here. I think the team and George is comfortable with him. I think they would like to see what he looks like out on the court for a few games.