"When I'm in New York, I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me, or is it vice versa?" - Fay Wray, Hollywood star of silent films and early talkies, best known for her role in King Kong as leading lady to the giant ape who carried her to the top of the famed New York City skyscraper
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