George W. Bush Quotes

Chew before you swallow.

By George W. Bush

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

By George W. Bush

By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well--a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world

By George W. Bush

Bring them on.

By George W. Bush

At this moment there is no pandemic influenza in the United States or the world, but if history is our guide there's reason to be concerned, ... In the last century, our country and the world have been hit by three influenza pandemics, and viruses from birds contributed to all of them.

By George W. Bush

As long as I sit in this chair, all future catastrophes will be planned by me.

By George W. Bush

As all of us saw on television, there is also some deep, persistent poverty in this region, as well, ... That poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America. We have a duty to confront this poverty with bold action. So, let us restore all that we have cherished from yesterday, and let us rise above the legacy of inequality.

By George W. Bush

As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

By George W. Bush

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

By George W. Bush

and everybody will be able to make the decision that they're comfortable with.

By George W. Bush

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

By George W. Bush

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

By George W. Bush

America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world.

By George W. Bush

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

By George W. Bush

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

By George W. Bush

America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.

By George W. Bush

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.

By George W. Bush

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

By George W. Bush

Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.

By George W. Bush

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

By George W. Bush

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

By George W. Bush

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.

By George W. Bush

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

By George W. Bush

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

By George W. Bush

a very frank and open discussion.

By George W. Bush

A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.

By George W. Bush

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

By George W. Bush

[After failing to find any evidence of that, Wilson wrote a newspaper article, in which he accused the Bush administration of] exaggerating the Iraqi threat ... Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

By George W. Bush

[Bush recalled Mexican President Vicente Fox's visit to Washington just before September 11, saying he told Fox at that time,] the United States has no more important relationship in the world than with Mexico. ... I meant it then, and I mean it now.

By George W. Bush

[Crowley said Clinton was] determined ... if the parties can see their way forward.

By George W. Bush