George H.W. Bush Quotes

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.

A campaign is a disagreement, and disagreements divide. But an election is a decision, and decisions clear the way for harmony and peace. I mean to be president of all the people.

It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.

The United States is the best and fairest and most decent nation on the face of the earth.

We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.

Old guys can still do fun things.

Every loss of life is terrible.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

Read my lips-NO NEW TAXES!

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

Tell me your Dreams and I'll write you a Fantasy. Tell me your Fantasies and I'll paint you a Dream for the minds eye you can get lost in!

Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

When I need a little advice about Saddam Hussein, I turn to country music.

Now we can see a new world coming into view, a world where there is a very real prospect of a New World Order.

From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.

I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't.

America's freedom is the example to which the world expires.

I think 9/11 guaranteed that national security is going to be in the forefront of every election.

We sue each other too much and care for each other too little.

I hope I stand for antibigotry, anti-Semitism, antiracism. This is what drives me.

I have survivor's curiosity, I guess.

Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy.

I know this about the American people: We welcome competition. We'll match our ingenuity, our energy, our experience and technology, our spirit and enterprise against anyone.

War is never cheap or easy.

It's not whether people like you but whether they share the bright dreams...and understand the heartbeat of the country.

I'm not what you call your basic intellectual.

There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.

I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.

You got to wrestle with your conscience. You got to listen to people. It doesn't come so easy to me that this is right and that's wrong. It's never that simple.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.

Now that I am no longer President, I find I can no longer win every game of golf I play.

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

My favorite picture is a picture of American soldiers surrounding a guy in a foxhole, Iraqi soldier, and the American guy says, "We're not going to harm you. We're American soldiers."

Don't try to fine-tune somebody else's view.

We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!

Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.

The Democrats just want to ram it down my ear with a victory

I try to hold my charisma in check.

I put confidence in the American people, in their ability to sort through what is fair and what is unfair, what is ugly and what is un-ugly.

A new breeze is blowing--and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on: there is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken.