"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hated me. He told me I was being ridiculous. Everyone hadn't met me yet." - Rodney Dangerfield, comedian
For sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his ten-gallon-hat leadership style and for persuading a majority of voters that he deserved to be in the White House for another four years, George W. Bush is TIME's 2004 Person of the Year
Rodney Dangerfield