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Jesus: "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the [temple] treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything -- all she had to live on." (Mark 12:43)

George: "Poor people are poor because they're lazy." (To one of his professors at Harvard Business School, as quoted in the "Seattle Weekly", December 2004)

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Jesus: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." (Matthew 5:5)

George: "I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." (Washington, DC, September 2001)

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Jesus: "Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me... Whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me." (Matthew 25:40-45)

George: "Please don't kill me." (Mocking convicted murderer Karla Faye Tucker after her plea for clemency, as quoted in "Talk Magazine", September 1999)

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Jesus: "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar?s." (Matthew 22:21)

George: "The really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway." (Annandale, VA, August 2004)

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Jesus: "Watch out that you are not deceived." (Luke 21:8)

George: "You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on." (At a Washington dinner, March 2001)

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