You can't have Entrepreneurs if you don't have a word for it

js : I found your quote so funny that I tried to retrieve its source. Well, turns out there isn’t any, and this might just be another internet hoax. There’s even a website that claims Tony "51st Governor" Blair said it. I’ll try to do a little more research on this.

CRC

… that said, George "retarded chimp" Bush could have very well pronounced such a brilliant speech

CRC

I got it from the UK radio (Radio 4 – the news and current affairs station) – they were reviewing the background to GW’s international policies (serious documentary stuff, not humour).

It was also published in a UK book about Mr. Bush (again a factual book, not humour), though I don’t have the book and was driving when they reviewed the book (and I’m afraid I didn’t write it down).

I cannot personally vouch for the comment (as I didn’t see e.g. him say it on TV), but was not on Internet.

Some links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/news/7oclocknews/features/bush_141103.shtml sorry, but don’t know how much people know about the UK – the BBC is a nationwide TV/Radio provider (government funded but not (very) government controlled). They have a good reputation for reliability so stuff they present as news is factually (any reporter opinion is always clearly identified as opinion) and can generally be given serious consideration. This page also has quite a few other good GW quotes.

Possibly less "reliable" links (from a factual basis) but with quite a few amusing things:
http://www.president-bush.com/bushwisdom5.html (quite a lot of other good quotes http://www.president-bush.com).

Sounds like Dan Quayle to me. Entrepreneur is a French word and good old Dan would never figure that out. I’m sure Reagen and Bush wouldn’t either.

BTW, it’s listed in my French dictionary as a building contractor . . . not exactly its English meaning!

A few more:

A few other ?good ones?:

War
?The vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and bring them to justice.?
Washington DC, 27 October 2003

Imports
?More and more of our imports come from overseas.?
Beaverton OR, 25th September 2000

Mathematics
?A surplus means there?ll be money left over. Otherwise, it wouldn?t be called a surplus.?
Kalamazoo MI, 27th October 2000

Leadership
"We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans."
Scranton PA, September 6th 2000

Action
"If affirmative action means what I just described, what I’m for, then I’m for it."
St. Louis MO, October 18th 2000

Illiteracy
"I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children."
Second presidential debate, October 11th 2000

Science
"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighbourhoods."
Austin TX, December 20th 2000

Dogs
"We cannot let terriers and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.”
Des Moines IA, August 21st 2000

Detractors
"I think anybody who doesn’t think I’m smart enough to handle the job is underestimating."
US News & World Report, April 3rd 2000

Belief
"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can’t answer your question."
Reynoldsburg, OH, October 4th 2000

Economics
"It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it."
Reuters, May 5th 2000

Nature
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
Saginaw MI, September 29th 2000

js : interesting also what this guy says at

http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~nunberg/compromise.html

… a remark that George W. Bush was supposed to have made to Tony Blair, "The problem with the French is that they have no word for ‘entrepreneur.’"

After the list appeared, though, a spokesman for the Prime Minister denied that Bush ever said anything of the sort. I believe him — the line really sounds too pat to be true, like a story the English would cook up to put in the mouth of an ignorant American.

SalB : un entrepreneur is someone who establishes and runs a business (une entreprise), it is also often linked to the construction business, like in the expression entrepreneur de travaux publics (building project contractor).

CRC

I heard that kfouler5 has no idea what this thread is all about. There are good internet sites that have The Chimp’s actual audio. LOL funny. Bush is making Dan Quayle look like a Rhodes schollar. I’m sure things will get better in the Happy New Year. Donerail