George W. Bush Political Quotations

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

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

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

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

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

Dubya! What in Tarnation!? Why, I'll tan yer hide fer this!So, what's sex like after fifty, anyway?

It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then.

Kosovians can move back in.

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

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 is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents.

I read the newspaper.

Governor Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.

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

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

This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases.

You might want to comment on that, Honorable.

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.

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

Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where I'm coming from.

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.

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

They have miscalculated me as a leader.

The woman who knew that I had dyslexia - I never interviewed her.

I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans.

This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.

Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself.

Presidents, whether things are good or bad, get the blame. I understand that.

If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.

Anyway, I'm so thankful, and so gracious - I'm gracious that my brother Jeb is concerned about the hemisphere as well.

These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion.

Please don't kill me!

Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican.

As young Americans, you have an important responsibility, which is to become good citizens.

I do remain confident in Linda. She'll make a fine labor secretary. From what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly qualified.

I expect you to work hard on our agenda.

As Iraqi forces gain experience and the political process advances, we will be able to decrease our troop level in Iraq without losing our capability to defeat the terrorists. These decisions about troop levels will be driven by the conditions on the ground in Iraq and the good judgment of our commanders, not by artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington.

You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.

I don't bring God into my life to - to, you know, kind of be a political person.

Our nation must come together to unite.

It is important that social, political, and religious freedoms grow in China. A society which recognizes religious freedom is a society which will recognize political freedom as well.

Over my tenure as governor, I have come not only to respect the political muscle of the Federation; I've come to respect the brains. All of us depend on your efforts and energies.

What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.

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.

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

The senator has got to understand if he's going to have - he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road.

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.

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.

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

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.

Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads.

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

Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis.

I would have my secretary of treasury be in touch with the financial centers, not only here but at home.

It's going to require numerous IRA agents.

If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.

It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term.

If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.

I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace.

I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida.

Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

She's just trying to make sure Anthony gets a good meal - Antonio.

If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly reject that assumption - that John Ashcroft is a openminded, inclusive person.

I confirmed to the prime minister that we appreciate our friendship.

Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open.

I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

The suicide bombings have increased. There's too many of them.

We've been able to watch on our television screens sophisticated weaponry find a building; and we've seen dramatic reports from the front where Pulitzer Prize-to-be winning reporters stood up and declared, the United States is attacked, and all that.

You know, if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop-duster that doesn't belong to you, report it.

There's been shock waves sent throughout all parts of the nation's economic fabric.

I understand religion is a walk, it's a journey. And I fully recognize that I'm a sinner, just like you.

We will allow private and religious groups to compete to provide services in every federal, state and local social program.

Our priorities is our faith.

I don't see how we can allow public dollars to fund programs where spite and hate is the core of the message. Louis Farrakhan preaches hate.

Our plan will not favor religious institutions over nonreligious institutions. As president, I'm interested in what is constitutional and I'm interested in what works.

It has sustained me in moments of success and in moments of disappointment. Without it, I'd be a different person. And without it, I doubt I'd be here today.

We do not prescribe any prayer; we welcome all prayer.

The days of discriminating against religious institutions simply because they are religious must come to an end.

On this National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, we ask almighty God to watch over our nation, and grant us patience and resolve in all that is to come. We pray that He will comfort and console those who now walk in sorrow. We thank Him for each life we now must mourn, and the promise of a life to come.

I am mindful that we're all sinners...

About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.

God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.

The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.

The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?

I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats always get more credit than they deserve. They are just better at political discourse that we are.

Reading is the basics for all learning.

When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.

Hezbollah is not a state. They're a, you know, supposed political party that happens to be armed.

I saw a threat in Saddam Hussein. Members of the United States Congress from both political parties saw that same threat. The United Nation's saw the threat. I made the right decision in getting Saddam Hussein out of power.