"...George II was the drill instructor who taught the troops that the first -- and possibly only -- word in the Bush political vocabulary is 'loyalty.' "
BusinessWeek, 1/11/02
"During his father's administration, George W. Bush was dubbed the 'loyalty thermometer'..."
The Christian Science Monitor, 12/17/02
"I just wanted to hear what my vice president had to say, and they make me sign a loyalty oath."
72-year-old John Wade of Albuquerque, via Boston Globe 8/9/04
"Bush values two things: No. 1 is loyalty, and No. 2 is continuity."
Paul Light, of NYU and The Brookings Institution, via CBS News 11/16/04
"One thing that critics of this president have never grasped is that he has been unprecedentedly successful in claiming loyalty up because he is unprecedentedly committed to loyalty down."
David Frum on National Review Online, 12/15/04
"That showed loyalty, an old Bush family trait and an admirable one."
Former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent via Knight-Ridder, 8/4/05
"Bush, who places a high premium on loyalty..."
Bloomberg News, 9/06/05
"Loyalty counted for more for this CEO than performance..."
David Ignatius, Op-Ed in Washington Post 9/7/05
"Loyalty and never admitting a mistake matters more than the truth."
Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT) in cnn.com, 9/8/05
"Loyalty is a trait that I value and yes, I am loyal."
Colin Powell in UK Telegraph, 9/10/05
"Ever since W. was his father's loyalty enforcer, his political decisions have been shaped more by loyalty than substance or competence."
Maureen Dowd, 9/10/05
"Mr. Bush publicly praised Mr. Brown on Friday, saying he had done 'a heck of a job.'"
New York Times, 9/4/05
Director of FEMA Stripped of Role as Relief Leader
New York Times front page headline, today
"You're doing a superb job."
President George W. Bush to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, as reported by cnn.com 5/10/04