quotd - The Debates: Round II

"I hear there's some rumors on the 'internets'..."

--G. W. Bush, talking about the possibility of a draft. While Al Gore invented the internet, it seems that Mr. Bush has invented a few more.

"I own a timber company?! That's news to me. Want some wood?"

--G. W. Bush, in reference to Kerry's remark that the president's statistics on small businesses were flawed because they counted wealthy individuals who owned shares of small businesses as separate small businesses themselves. Kerry pointed out that the president owned a share of a timber company and therefore was considered a small business with Bush's statistics. Bush, shocked, denied the claim, saying that he had know idea that he owned a timber company. According to Bloomberg.com: " Bush did report income from a timber company, according to copies of his tax returns on a Web site operated by Tax Analysts, an Arlington, Virginia, publisher of tax information. Bush earned $425,000 in income from partnerships in 2003, more than his presidential salary of $400,000."

"And looking around here, at this group here, I suspect there are only three people here who are going to be affected: the president, me, and, Charlie, I'm sorry, you too."

--John Kerry, describing whom his tax increase on individuals earning more than $200,000 will affect.