“Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
14 January 2005
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/14/bush.regrets.ap/index.html
2000s, 2005
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