George W. Bush Quotes

My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)

And, again, I don't know where he [Osama Bin Laden] is. I — I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him.

States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.

I don't feel like I've got all that much too important to say on the kind of big national issues.

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

It's not the governor’s role to decide who goes to heaven. That’s God’s role.

One of the interesting initiatives we've taken in Washington, D.C., is we've got these vampire-busting devices. A vampire is a-a cell deal you can plug in the wall to charge your cell phone.

After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

The world is more peaceful and more free under my leadership.

There's a lot of things that there's misconceptions. Evidently it's a misconceptions that Americans believe that Muslims are terrorists.

Big Texas (Nolan Ryan) is here. The reason I like to keep Nolan around is he is a reminder that when we got done with the Sammy Sosa trade, there was still some talent on the Rangers.

I never dreamed about being President, I wanted to be Willie Mays.

I have something else to ask you, to ask every American. I ask you to pray for this great nation.

I'm going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess, it's the mother in me.

I'm not the expert on how the Iraqi people think, because I live in America, where it's nice and safe and secure.

Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilize their country.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.

Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace.

Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he's a pretty good actor, too.

So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.

This is my maiden voyage. My first speech since I was the president of the United States and I couldn't think of a better place to give it than Calgary, Canada.

One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people's money to help prevent there to be a crisis.

In terms of the economy, look, I inherited a recession, I am ending on a recession.

So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression.

I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I'm fishing.

First of all, I don't see America having problems.

I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand -- but the president doesn't have a magic wand. You just can't say, 'low gas.'

The economy is growing, productivity is high, trade is up, people are working. It's not as good as we'd like, but -- and to the extent that we find weakness, we'll move.

But oftentimes I'm asked, why? Why do you care what happens outside of America?

We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood.

Our Nation's founding commitment is still our deepest commitment: In our world, and here at home, we will extend the frontiers of freedom.

Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.

There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country.

I did denounce it. I de-I denounced it. I denounced interracial dating. I denounced anti-Catholic bigacy... bigotry.

All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.

The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.

The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!

Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is-I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president.

Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about.

I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.

Of course we're after Iraq.. eh.. Saddam Hussein.. I mean bin Laden.

Uhh Gosh, I.. don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those, uhh, exaggerations.

It's important to reach out to moderate Arab nations, like Jordan and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

We will be changing the regime of Iraq for the good of the iraqi people.

Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence.

There are jobs Americans arent doing. ... If youve got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what Im talking about.

There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible.

Thats why we are inconveniencing air traffickers, to make sure nobody is carrying weapons on airplanes.

The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope - an ideology of hate - excuse me - with an ideology of hope.