The George W Bush Public Domain Audio Archive is a public domain database of the speeches of George W. Bush. Every phrase from each major speech has been made into an individual audio file, where the filename is, in most cases, the exact text content of the sample. This allows you to search the entire database for individual keywords. In the list of links below, "Individual files" links allow you to download a zip file containing the individual phrases. "Linear recording" links are an mp3 of the entire speech, which may be downloaded or streamed. In some cases,either the linear recording or the individual phrases are not available. The Bots have used this database to create the parody song Fuzzy Math. What you do with the database is up to you. Musicians, linguists, historians, media professionals, students and activists may all find this database to be of use. You are free to download and use these samples for any purpose, both non-commercial and commercial.
If you want to do something creative with the samples, we've been having a contest here called
The Bush Raps (Re)Mix Contest. The contest is over now, but we're still adding links to new songs. Send along a link to your Bush parody mix, and we'll put it up on this site, giving you instant worldwide exposure. If you need inspiration, Fuzzy Math by The Bots is an example of what can be done with the archive. What you do is up to you. You can usually find the latest details either in bc's blog or on The Bots Forum.
The samples are arranged by individual speech in roughly chronological order. Always click the links on this page to get the files. Because of extraordinarily high downloading, the actual files will be on a rotating group of servers, so a direct link may stop working when the file is transferred to another server. The links on this page will always be updated to point to the current server.
Misc 2000 and 2001 (individual samples)
Debate With Al Gore 2000 (individual samples)
Oath of Office 20 Jan 2001 (linear recording)
Speech on 11 Sep 2001 (individual samples)
Speech on 11 Sep 2001 (linear recording)
Speech on 12 Sep 2001 (individual samples)
Speech on 12 Sep 2001 (linear recording)
Address To Joint Congress 20 Sep 2001 (individual samples)
Address To Joint Congress 20 Sep 2001 pt1(linear recording)
Address To Joint Congress 20 Sep 2001 pt2(linear recording)
Miscellaneous Sep-Oct 2001 (individual samples)
Speech on 08 Nov 2001 (individual samples)
Speech on 08 Nov 2001 (linear recording)
State of the Union 29 Jan 2002 (individual samples)
State of the Union 29 Jan 2002 (linear recording)
Speech on Homeland Security 06 Jun 2002 (individual samples)
Speech on Homeland Security 06 Jun 2002
(linear recording)
Press Conference 08 Jul 2002 (individual samples)
Press Conference 08 Jul 2002
(linear recording)
Miscellaneous Sep-Nov 2002 (individual samples)
Smallpox Vaccinations Dec 2002
(linear recording)
On Middle East and Iraq Dec 2002 (individual samples)
On Middle East and Iraq Dec 2002
(linear recording)
News Conference Tax Cut Highlights 06 Jan 2003 (individual samples)
News Conference Tax Cut Highlights 06 Jan 2003
(linear recording)
Miscellaneous Jan 2003 (individual samples)
Speech on Medical Liability Reform Jan 2003 (individual samples)
Speech on Welfare and Affirmative Action Jan 2003 (individual samples)
Speech on Welfare and Affirmative Action Jan 2003 (linear recording)
State of the Union 28 Jan 2003 (individual samples)
Statement on Iraq 06 Feb 2003 (individual samples)
Statement on Iraq 06 Feb 2003 (linear recording)
Iraq War Prep Speech 26 Feb 2003 (individual samples)
Iraq War Prep Speech 26 Feb 2003
(linear recording)
Comments On Iraq War 23 Mar 2003 (individual samples)
Comments On Iraq War 23 Mar 2003 (linear recording)
Mission Accomplished Speech May 2003 (linear recording)
Miscellaneous 08 Sep 2003 (individual samples)
Miscellaneous Sep 2003 (individual samples)
News Conference with Chirac 06 Nov 2003 (individual samples)
Miscellaneous News Conferences Dec 2003 (individual samples)
Statement on Saddam Hussein Capture Dec 2003 (individual samples)
Statement on Saddam Hussein Capture Dec 2003 (linear recording)
State of the Union 20 Jan 2004 (individual samples)
State of the Union 20 Jan 2004 (linear recording)
At the Library Of Congress 04 Feb 2004 (individual samples)
At the Library Of Congress 04 Feb 2004 (linear recording)
Speech To Troops at Fort Polk Feb 2004 (individual samples)
Speech To Troops at Fort Polk Feb 2004 (linear recording)
Intelligence Failures Feb 2004 (individual samples)
Intelligence Failures Feb 2004 (linear recording)
Comments on Gay Marraige Feb 2004 (individual samples)
One Year Anniversary Of Iraq Invasion 19 Mar 2004 (individual samples)
One Year Anniversary Of Iraq Invasion 19 Mar 2004 (linear recording)
Campaign Rally 20 Mar 2004 (individual samples)
Campaign Rally 20 Mar 2004 (linear recording)
Earth Day 22 Apr 2004 (individual samples)
Earth Day 22 Apr 2004 (linear recording)
Comments On Iraqi Prisoner Abuse May 2004 (individual samples)
Comments On Iraqi Prisoner Abuse May 2004 (linear recording)
Equalling about 10 Gigagbytes of data,the original wav files in the database are too large to put on this website. If you are doing a really serious project with these samples, you might want to consider buying the archive in .wav format. In most cases, these wav files were edited in the same order that they occurred in the speech. This allows you to arrange the files by the "modified by" date and see them in the exact order they occurred in the speech, while reading the text, which can be very useful when attempting to extract truthful statements. Unfortunately, this property was lost in the mp3 conversion, so the mp3s in the zip files listed above cannot be sorted in the original order in which they occurred. If you buy the whole collection, you also get a special bonus of hundreds of professionally "altered" files, such as were used to create Fuzzy Math. You can get the whole collection here.