J.M. Bush Quotes

I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards -- enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

There is a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.' - Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000

Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.

We ought to make the pie higher.

I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office.

I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and "Hispanically".

Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy.

How can you possibly have an international agreement that's effective unless countries like China and India are not full participants?

It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.

Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

May He guide us now. And may God continue to bless the United States of America.

Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican.

The Islam that we know is a faith devoted to the worship of one God, as revealed through The Holy Qu'ran. It teaches the value and importance of charity, mercy, and peace.

I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere to make sure that guns don't get in the hands of people that shouldn't have them.

I may be the only person, the only presidential candidate who never carried the state in which he was born.

Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean.

People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.

I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

This aggression will not stand

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Well, I think lower taxes and less regulation would actually promote growth.

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again and I'll say to them, read my lips, no new taxes.

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

It's a very weird thing to know where you want to be in life and all of a sudden to actually have taken some real steps is a very strange feeling. I've really done something that I'm proud of.

There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.

We're sticky at the ends and the middle is getting squeezed

When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I think it's insulting to God.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it.

No matter what you are, you're a mess." That's what the world tells us. "Every other woman is your competition. You feel bad about yourself and every other woman think she's perfect.

Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.

I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.

I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American in every community has the right to pursue happiness.

Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.

I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.

Moving stranger, Does it really matter, As long as you're not afraid to feel? Touch me, hold me. How my open arms ache! Try to fall for me.

I haven't actually seen a Lady Gaga tour, but I do think she's very good.

Don't ever think that you can't change the past.

I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.

Cats are our last best chance to have a dysfunctional relationship.