“Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over?Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsettingnovel in which the hero is the country, and the president is thisdisturbing, pig-headed, oblivious villain who makes things worseand worse and worse.”

“No, I was just thinking about Chernobyl. That's like a scream from the universe warning us, but we're not paying any attention.”

“Barack Obama is an even worse president than George W. Bush, because an evil bastard who knows what he's doing is far more dangerous than an evil bastard who doesn't have a clue.”

“George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.”

“Electing a black man named Barack Obama President in the same country that elected George W. Bush - twice! - is as far-fetched as a hustler from Marcy performing at that President's inauguration. But it happened.”

“He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.”

“An outgoing president nearly always defines the next elections, Axelrod wrote, and people almost never seek a replica - certainly not after the presidency of George W. Bush.”