Words matter. These are the best George H. W. Bush Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.
I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.
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.
Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.
Losing is tough.
I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.
I think I’d be a better president because I was in combat.
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.
History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.
You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.
I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.
I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.
It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.
The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.
We are not the sum of our possessions.
I hope my own children never have to fight a war.
It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.
I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.
I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.
I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‘gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.’ Nope.
Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
Every loss of life is terrible.
For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.
You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.
I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.
What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
Old guys can still do fun things.
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’m conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.
I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.
The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.
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.
Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.
I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.
It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.
The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.
Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
