I reached into the panoply of possible Dumb Bush Quotes for 2006 and decided these were my top for the year 2006 because I am the decider.

“You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.”

—George W. Bush, interview with CBS News’ Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006

“He was a state sponsor of terror. In other words, the government had declared, you are a state sponsor of terror.”

—George W. Bush, on Saddam Hussein, Manhattan, Kan., Jan. 23, 2006

“That’s George Washington, the first president, of course. The interesting thing about him is that I read three — three or four books about him last year. Isn’t that interesting?”

—George W. Bush, while showing German newspaper reporter Kai Diekmann the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006

“I’m the decider, and I decide what is best. And what’s best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of Defense.”

—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C. April 18, 2006