George W. Bush, September 2000: Bush did not realize his comments at a campaign stop in Naperville, Illinois, were picked up on the microphone when he leaned over to running mate Dick Cheney and said: “There's Adam Clymer, major-league asshole from the New York Times.” The Republican nominee later said he regretted everyone heard his comment but sidestepped a question about whether he would apologize to the journalist. In 2006, Bush's candid remark to British Prime Minister Tony Blair was picked up by an open microphone during the closing lunch at the G8 summit in Russia. In the remarks, he expressed his frustration with the United Nations, Hezbollah's attacks on Israel and the group's backers in Syria. “See, the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this s---, and it's over,” Bush told Blair as he chewed on a buttered roll.
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