“You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier.”

— George W. Bush

Responding to the difficulties of governing Texas, "The Taming of Texas," Governing Magazine (July 1998) http://www.governing.com/archive/1998/jul/bush.txt; also cited in Is our Children Learning?: The Case Against George W. Bush (2000) by Paul Begala.)
1990s

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