George Bush actually said...

"I thank Scott for his service to our country."

"The presidency of George W. Bush veered terribly off course, and the administration was guilty of a, in his words, excessive embrace of the permanent campaign approach to governance."

"If anything, the National Press Corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington..."

"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended."