George H.W. Bush Quotes
The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.
If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.
The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.
Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.
If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.
In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.
Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.
Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.
Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.
I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.
This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.
There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.
No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.
One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.
Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.
A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.
I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.
I remember when I was shot down in that war. I remember how terrified I was. And it made me feel close to my family, and to God, and to life, and I was scared.
International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all differences, but they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to peace as surely as water wears away a hard stone.
Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.
We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give.
If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.
The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.
I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.
But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.
I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.