entelein | What a charmer!

[Several students stand up and demonstrate opposition to a possible war with Iraq]

We've now found a real good reason to use duct tape. [applause] Hey, this is calm. Barbara would kill me, but I'm going to tell you a story while they're being gracefully exited. You think this is something. You ought to have gone in with me when I was President, to San Francisco. We rode in – I picture the place well. The Secret Service police keep the people back. And this one demonstrator was standing there, the worst looking woman I've ever seen in my life. And she had a big sign. She came running up to the side of the car saying, "Stay out of my womb." No problem, lady. This is all right, this is okay. And they feel strongly. Let me say this: I do understand, I do understand where they're coming from. And I have no great concern about that. But, I hope they'll listen and see where I'm coming from. [applause]

-- from the transcript of Former President George Herbert Walker Bush's speech to Tufts