Top 100 George H. W. Bush Quotes
#1. It's amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you're no longer president.
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#2. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective- a new world order-can emerge ... We are now in sight of a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders.
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#4. We join Armenians around the world as we remember the terrible massacres suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The United States responded to this crime against humanity by leading diplomatic and private relief efforts.
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#5. I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
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#6. In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.
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#7. We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family. To make them more like The Waltons and less like The Simpsons.
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#8. I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the Decade of the Brain. I call upon all public officials and the people of the United States to observe that decade with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
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#9. Be strong,be kind,be generous of spirit, be understanding and let people know how grateful you are.Dont get even. Comfort the ones i've hurt and let down.Say your prayers and ask for Gods understanding and strength.Finish with a smile and some gustoand do what's' right and finish strong.
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#12. I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.
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#13. Learning is good in and of itself ... the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.
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#14. If you're worried about caribou, take a look at the arguments that were used about the pipeline. They'd say the caribou would be extinct. You've got to shake them away with a stick. They're all making love lying up against the pipeline and you got thousands of caribou up there.
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#15. There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after.
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#17. I don't worry about superpower confrontation. You know, I lived through the Cold War days, and where everybody was worried about a Soviet Union armed to the teeth. I think we're going to get along fine with Russia, and I don't see them as internationally ambitious.
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#19. Now that I am no longer President, I find I can no longer win every game of golf I play.
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#20. Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history ... Socrates gave advice
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#22. The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.
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#23. I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.
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#24. By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.
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#26. You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't.
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#27. I think the spirit of America, one American wanting to make another American's life better, or internationally our desire to see countries do better, or people in countries do better, coming from this concept of volunteerism is a very valid and important part of our internal being.
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#30. The rigidity of those pledges is something I don't like. The circumstances change and you can't be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. It's - who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway?
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#31. There are things we can do to give us a little more attention ... I've got to look more frantic.
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#32. The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.
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#34. May God bless those who died and bless their families. With regards, George Bush.
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#35. I put confidence in the American people, in their ability to sort through what is fair and what is unfair, what is ugly and what is unugly.
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#36. It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance.
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#37. I want to salute Reverend Moon, who is the founder of The Washington Times and also of Tiempos del Mundo. A lot of my friends in South America don't know about The Washington Times, but it is an independent voice.
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#38. 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.
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#39. Fluency in English is something that I'm often not accused of.
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#40. Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a basic civil right.
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#41. We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light ... We all have something to give.
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#42. We're enjoying sluggish times, and not enjoying them very much.
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#44. My grandkids say, "Reality Bites." O.K., but it also challenges and rewards ... I believe our best days are yet to come.
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#45. I hope I stand for antibigotry, anti-Semitism, antiracism. This is what drives me.
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#47. We consider it vital that the community of nations be drawn together in an orderly, disciplined, rational way to review the history of our global environment, to assess the potential for future climate change, and to develop effective programs.
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#48. A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization.
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#49. 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.
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#50. I remember when I was shot down in that war. I remember how terrified I was. And it made me feel close to my family, and to God, and to life, and I was scared.
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#51. You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.
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#52. Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.
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#54. This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.
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#55. Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.
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#56. There are truckloads of broccoli at this very minute descending on Washington. My family is divided. For the broccoli vote out there: Barbara loves broccoli. She has tried to make me eat it. She eats it all the time herself. So she can go out and meet the caravan of broccoli that's coming in.
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#57. The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I'd add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others.
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#58. Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.
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#59. Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.
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#60. You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.
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#61. The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.
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#62. The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.
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#63. I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.
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#64. When I need a little advice about Saddam Hussein, I turn to country music.
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#65. We are a nation of communities ... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
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#68. I got poked in the left eye on the collision. My vision is blurry in that eye. I had to play. It was for coach, and because it was a district game.
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#69. My favorite picture is a picture of American soldiers surrounding a guy in a foxhole, Iraqi soldier, and the American guy says, "We're not going to harm you. We're American soldiers."
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#72. I believe we should make use of what we know. We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised.
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#73. Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.
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#74. We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner ... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.
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#76. It's not whether people like you but whether they share the bright dreams ... and understand the heartbeat of the country.
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#77. Whoever says Americas best days are behind it are looking the wrong direction.
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#78. 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.
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#80. Draconian limits on economic growth and on the use of the automobile should not be necessary in order to give Americans clean air at levels they are willing to pay for, but it will require significant Federal, State, and local leadership and innovative approaches from government and industry.
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#81. Time and again in this century, the political map of the world was transformed. And ineach instance a new world order came about through the advent of a new tyrant or the outbreak of a bloody global war, or its end.
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#82. American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.
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#83. For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.
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#85. One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.
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#87. I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.
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#89. Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down,
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#90. Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.
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#91. Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.
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#93. 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.
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#94. As for me, tough duty though it may be, I continue to do my part for the commercial recreation industry. Fishing, boating, tennis, golf, running, hunting, and all of this. Horseshoes. It's tough duty. Somebody has to do it, and I'm going to keep on.
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#95. I know this about the American people: We welcome competition. We'll match our ingenuity, our energy, our experience and technology, our spirit and enterprise against anyone.
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#96. From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.
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#99. There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.
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