"Every day is an adventure. But I can't say that I feel unlucky or cursed." - Christopher Reeve, onetime Hollywood Superman, left a quadriplegic after a horseback-riding accident in 1995
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