George H. W. Bush Reside Quotations

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'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.

There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States.

I want a kinder, gentler nation.

Thousand points of light.

We have ...drawn a line in the sand.

Abraham Lincoln truly inspired me. It wasn't just the freeing of the slaves, he kept the Union together. Some people even forget that today. What I think inspired me was the fact that in spite of being the President of the United States he retained a certain down-to-earth quality. He never got to be a big shot, and he cared about people.

We know what works: freedom works. We know what's right: freedom is right. We know how to secure a more and just and prosperous life for man on earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.

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

I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!

We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God.

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

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

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.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

It's amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you're no longer president.

I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that.

President Bush, testing the mic at the GOP convention:'Four score and seven years ago. We have come here to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place. ... My fellow members of the press corps, especially the camera man, tax relief is on the way ... don't spend it all in one place.'

President Abbas is a man devoted to peace and to his people's aspiration for a state of their own,

I was voting for the process that the president posed. There was a right way to do this and a wrong way to do it. And the president chose the wrong way.

He writes in a book that he thinks we ought to have higher fuel prices, and now that he's running for president and there's higher fuel prices, he seems to be changing his tune.

One of the very best reasons I can think of to vote for me as president is to have Laura Bush as first lady of the United States of America.

The current administration inherited a military ready for the dangers and challenges facing our nation. The next president will inherit a military in decline.

Both my oldest son, the current US President Bush, and I think that US-China relations have never been better than they are right now, ... the best days of the relation are still ahead.

Scooter has worked tirelessly on behalf of the American people and sacrificed much in the service to this country. He served the Vice President and me through extraordinary times in our nation's history.

as a president it goes with the territory.

He ought to let us know where he differed from the president on policy matters as well as everything else. Either you're part of an administration or you're not part of an administration is how I view it.

President Taylor needs to step down ... so that his country can be spared further bloodshed. All the parties in Liberia must pursue a comprehensive peace agreement,

How could the president be so wrong, so misinformed?

This selection now presents the vice president with an interesting test of whether he will continue attacking positions his running mate shares.

We look forward to working with President Megawati and her team to address Indonesia's challenges of economic reform, peaceful resolution of separatist challenges, and maintaining territorial integrity.

I don't fault past presidents for trying and failing, ... You've got to try.

To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.

If he's got a problem with what went on in the past, he ought to explain what it is. I think the vice president ought to speak out on it.