Bush Quotes

#1. the fabulous market opportunity is not in replacing bad with better. The trick instead is to provide something the customers simply don't have. - Author: Jonathan Bush

#2. President Bush insisted that there was nothing in the August 6th, 2001 briefing, which was titled 'Bin Laden determined to attack the United States', that hinted what bin Laden was up to. Bush says that he would have moved mountains to stop the attack. Yeah, but he draws the line at reading a memo. - Author: David Letterman

#3. I acted on my core beliefs on social issues as governor. - Author: Jeb Bush

#4. Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would read the New York Times, and that's not what he wanted in the Village Voice. - Author: Sydney Schanberg

#5. Nice knees, bud, but the hairy legs could use a Bush Hog. (Kyrian) - Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. YOU ARE BOTH DEAD TO ME!" I shout.
"Then this is me, speaking from beyond the grave when I remind you to trim your bush while you're at it. No man needs to choke on a hairball!" Beattie yells back from down the hall. - Author: Tara Sivec

#7. I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time. - Author: Jeb Bush

#8. I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure. - Author: Bernie Sanders

#9. Experts are saying that President Bush's goal now is to politically humiliate Saddam Hussein. Why don't we just make him the next Democratic presidential nominee? - Author: Jay Leno

#10. Islam is a vibrant faith. Millions of our fellow citizens are Muslim. We respect the faith. We honor its traditions. Our enemy does not. Our enemy doesn't follow the great traditions of Islam. They've hijacked a great religion. - Author: George W. Bush

#11. The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it was nothing more than a scrubby little overhang under a rhododendron bush, but it was incredibly important to me. - Author: Jay Griffiths

#12. George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that they wanted to press, but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose. - Author: Josh Brolin

#13. I firmly believed we should not march into Baghdad ... To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab
world against us and make a broken tyrant, into a latter-day Arab hero. - Author: George H. W. Bush

#14. Saddam Hussein's regime is a gray and gathering danger. - Author: George W. Bush

#15. President Bush admitted that the United States went to war in Iraq based on bad intelligence. But he says knowing what we know now he would still do it again. So at least we're learning from our mistakes. - Author: Jay Leno

#16. The primary theory embraced by the Bush administration to justify its War on Terror policies was that the 'battlefield' is no longer confined to identifiable geographical areas, but instead, the entire globe is now one big, unlimited 'battlefield.' - Author: Glenn Greenwald

#17. Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building. - Author: Ron Paul

#18. The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation. - Author: Elliott Abrams

#19. As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein. - Author: George W. Bush

#20. Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their enemies. Good wine needs no bush, and good morals need no bated breath. - Author: Bertrand Russell

#21. It's a huge advantage to have parents who read to you. And it's an advantage that lasts a lifetime. - Author: Laura Bush

#22. When terrorists blew up the Marine barracks in Lebanon, Reagan was frustrated and furious, as Bush was after 9/11. But he didn't stick us in a war in the Middle East with no exit. - Author: Douglas Brinkley

#23. I am a war president. - Author: George W. Bush

#24. Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush tried to begin discussions on Social Security reform, Democrats ridiculed and demonized him and told seniors he was after their nest eggs. - Author: David Limbaugh

#25. If you have a plan, we want to hear it. Tell your community leaders, your local officials, your governor, and your team in Washington. Believe me, your ideas count. An individual can make a difference. - Author: George H. W. Bush

#26. The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware. - Author: Noam Chomsky

#27. As parents, the most important thing we can do
is read to our children early and often. Reading
is the path to success in school and life. When
children learn to love books, they learn to love
learning. - Author: Laura Bush

#28. Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries. - Author: Barbara Bush

#29. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment. - Author: George W. Bush

#30. I find that those who voted for George W. Bush are less offended by his religious references, and those who voted for Bill Clinton did not seem offended at all when people prayed at his inauguration. - Author: Gwen Ifill

#31. When people talk about how in America, anybody can grow up to be President, I'm not sure George Bush is exactly what they had in mind. - Author: Will Durst

#32. Some Saian mountaineer
Struts today with my shield.
I threw it down by a bush and ran
When the fighting got hot.
Life seemed somehow more precious.
It was a beautiful shield.
I know where I can buy another
Exactly like it, just as round. - Author: Archilochos

#33. 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. - Author: George W. Bush

#34. I was an English major. - Author: Jenna Bush

#35. I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.
(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008) - Author: George W. Bush

#36. 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. - Author: George W. Bush

#37. There was a list, Kimberley imagined, and in an obscure subsection of that list, a section that had not been properly updated since George Bush was President, - Author: Ben Aaronovitch

#38. When it came to the 2000 election, 84 percent of Ivy League faculty voted for Al Gore, 6 percent for Ralph Nader and 9 percent for George Bush. In the general electorate, the vote was split at 48 percent for Gore and Bush, and 3 percent for Nader. - Author: Walter E. Williams

#39. There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.' - Author: Bill Maher

#40. 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. - Author: George H. W. Bush

#41. The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength. - Author: George W. Bush

#42. I had started working in television but it did not pay that much. I was 27, renting this little one-bed flat in Shepherd's Bush, West London, with a bathroom so small only someone of my size could actually get in it. - Author: Anthea Turner

#43. Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. - Author: Tina Brown

#44. Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open. - Author: George W. Bush

#45. As I was telling my husb - As I was telling President Bush. - Author: Condoleezza Rice

#46. John Kerry accused President Bush of catering to the rich. You know, as opposed to John Kerry who just marries them. - Author: Jay Leno

#47. I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid. - Author: Sophia Bush

#48. The bush was alive with excitement. - Author: Dorothy Wall

#49. All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you. - Author: George W. Bush

#50. Our long-term security depends on our deep faith in liberty. And we'll continue to promote freedom around the world. - Author: George W. Bush

#51. always stressed that the comforts they enjoyed came with a responsibility to give back. - Author: George W. Bush

#52. President Bush said it's now time for a change in Iraq and he wants them to have a Western-style democracy like ours. So right now in Iraq, the economy is collapsing, businessmen are corrupt, and Hussein wants his son to take over as president. Sounds like mission accomplished. - Author: Jay Leno

#53. Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition. - Author: Nicholas D. Kristof

#54. Australian Aborigines say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush. - Author: Robert Moss

#55. Trump is running for president and he's wasting no time getting down to business. In fact, just after his announcement he demanded to see Jeb Bush's birth certificate. - Author: Jimmy Fallon

#56. There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision. - Author: Hugh Shelton

#57. When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know. - Author: Laura Bush

#58. The fingers and toes and beating hearts that we can see on an unborn child's ultrasound come with something that we cannot see: a soul - Author: George W. Bush

#59. Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld; they are the funny trio. - Author: Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#60. Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation's history. I get rather afraid when the most powerful man in the world talks to, and gets answers back from, God. - Author: Randall Robinson

#61. Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that. - Author: Barbara Bush

#62. President George W. Bush, in his now-rare public appearances and interviews, still refuses to acknowledge he did anything to help Iran. But it doesn't really matter what he thinks. - Author: Richard Engel

#63. What we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administration. It launched a faith-based war in Iraq, on the basis of faith-based intelligence, with a faith-based plan for Iraqi reconstruction, supported by faith-based tax cuts to generate faith-based revenues. - Author: Thomas Friedman

#64. The role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place. - Author: George W. Bush

#65. 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. - Author: George H. W. Bush

#66. Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values. - Author: Peter Singer

#67. It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog. - Author: Sherwood Anderson

#68. I think the most important recipe for a good date is just spending time with somebody and really connecting and feeling like the best version of yourself regardless of what you may be doing. - Author: Sophia Bush

#69. The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing. - Author: Michael Moore

#70. It's amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you're no longer president. - Author: George H. W. Bush

#71. I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world. - Author: Jon Stewart

#72. If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party. - Author: Ellen Malcolm

#73. Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character ... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue. - Author: George W. Bush

#74. My health is very good. - Author: Barbara Bush

#75. We 'can't' always 'cushion' our views..
'Soften' the stance..
'Straight Talk' involves least effort..
No 'beating about the bush'..
Say it as it is..
Ofcourse, stay ready to be unpopular! - Author: Abha Maryada Banerjee

#76. The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. - Author: Craig Bruce

#77. A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing. - Author: Bret Harte

#78. Jeb [Bush] said when they [people influenced by ISIS] come across the southern border they come as an act of love. - Author: Donald Trump

#79. George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising. - Author: Al Gore

#80. Michael Jackson doesn't really belong on this planet. He's the most important figure in the history of music. He'll be remembered far longer than George Bush will. 200 years from now, people will be talking about Michael Jackson, and no one's going to mention George Bush. - Author: Brett Ratner

#81. I know that the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully. - Author: George W. Bush

#82. I think my dad's post-presidency, he didn't miss a beat. He didn't get into any kind of 'Woe is me.' He dusted himself off and led an incredible life since 1993. - Author: Jeb Bush

#83. USA have got a comprehensive strategy to not only chase down the Al Qaida, wherever it exists - but to make sure that countries that harbor terrorists are held to account. - Author: George W. Bush

#84. Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush. - Author: Andrew Sullivan

#85. Never once have Democrats benefited from attempts at reasonableness and compromise and accommodation. To the contrary, Bush and his team seem to view political compromise as weakness, and they punish it rather than reward or reciprocate it. - Author: Jim Jordan

#86. I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same questions: How'd your meeting go with so-and-so? . How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address-state of the budget address, whatever you call it. - Author: George W. Bush

#87. Im a strong proponent of the restoration of the wetlands, for a lot of reasons. Theres a practical reason, though, when it comes to hurricanes: The stronger the wetlands, the more likely the damage of the hurricane. - Author: George W. Bush

#88. The true test of whether Mr. Obama has improved on the Bush era lies in how his administration justifies its decisions on the 241 remaining Guantanamo detainees, whose cases will now be evaluated internally and reviewed by the courts. - Author: Noah Feldman

#89. I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord. - Author: Pat Robertson

#90. Luckily I've had a lot of great friends that I've had for a long time. - Author: Jenna Bush

#91. Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war? - Author: Bianca Jagger

#92. I met Bush but we didn't talk at all. To tell you the truth, I was too pissed. - Author: Ozzy Osbourne

#93. 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. - Author: George H. W. Bush

#94. Listen, I know of nobody
I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action. And this investigation is a good thing. - Author: George W. Bush

#95. I tore all the roses off a single sad bush and threw them, one after the other, into the angry sea. - Author: E. Lockhart

#96. My parents taught us it's important to give back. - Author: Jenna Bush

#97. Even when you sign a treaty like I think [Richard] Nixon did, the anti-ballistic missile treaty, George W. Bush reneged on it. He got out of. So any treaty can be withdrawn from. - Author: Jerry Brown

#98. No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession. - Author: P. J. O'Rourke

#99. I don't know why you're talking about Sweden. They're the neutral one. They don't have an army. - Author: George W. Bush

#100. President George Bush declared a National Day of Prayer for Peace. This was after he had carefully arranged and started the war. - Author: George Carlin