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Here’s a small slice from the excerpts Slate published this week from Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush by Robert Draper. The speaking voice belongs to George himself, of course:

I ran for reasons. Principled reasons. There were principles by which I will stand on. And when I leave this office I’ll stand on them. And therefore you can’t get driven by polls. Polls aren’t driven by principles. They’re driven by the moment. By the nanosecond.”

All of it is priceless. But what I particularly admire is that doubly ungrammatical “There were principles by which I will stand on.” Two grammatical errors in a 9-word sentence. That takes skill.