George W. Bush Quotes

They have miscalculated me as a leader.

I want to make it clear to people that the idea of putting subliminable messages into ads is ridiculous.

Conspiracy theories abound in American politics. I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs.

This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them.

That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired.

I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways.

The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming.

This campaign not only hears the voices of the entrepreneurs and the farmers and the entrepreneurs, we hear the voices of those struggling to get ahead.

I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where.

I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking.

You might want to comment on that, Honorable.

There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me.

He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to be.

I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know.

You subscribe politics to it. I subscribe freedom to it.

I've got a great sense of where I want to lead and I'm comfortable with why I'm running. And, you know, the call on that speech was, beware. This is going to be a tough campaign.

The fact that he relies on facts - says things that are not factual - are going to undermine his campaign.

I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university.

Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really pleased with the organization and the thousands of South Carolinians that worked on my behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled.

How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?

I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less - I pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm more interacting with people.

Governor Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember.

It's my first trip as president of the United States.

Kosovians can move back in.

It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then.

We say to seniors, we understand how important prescription drug coverage, so prescription drugs will be an ingrinable part of the Medicare plan.

When your economy is kind of ooching along, it's important to let people have more of their own money.

Except when you're marching to war, it's not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it's the opposite of optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war.

I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily - are a different color than white can self-govern.

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.

I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.

The problem with golf is I have to deal with a humiliation factor.

I don't read books, but I have friends who do.

I kind of like to look at the ranch on Google, reminds me of where I want to be sometimes.

Our nation was horrified, but it's not going to be terrorized.

When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.

Outwit, outlast, outplay. It's the tagline for the television show Survivor and it's damn near what presidenting is like, too.

I love my brother, and I respect his service, i haven't been in Washington ... ever. I'm not part of Washington.

The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.

I'd like to be a president [known] as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace.

God speaks through me.

The do-not-call registry is still being challenged in court. Yet, the conclusions of the American people, the legislative branch, and the executive branch are beyond question.

Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.

Each day millions of our citizens approach our Maker on bended knee, seeking His grace and giving thanks for the many blessings He bestows upon us.

America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable governments or are hostile towards the United States.

How great the lie right to the top: We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our country.

We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

There are some who feel like - that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on! We've got the force necessary.