Top 100 H W Bush Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About H W Bush

#1. The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andover or Yale.

#2. [On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie.

Margaret Thatcher

#3. South Carolina put George H.W. Bush into the White House, But George W. Bush into the White House and sent Jeb Bush back to Miami.

Chuck Todd

#4. In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not run for a second term.

Juan Williams

#5. He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application

H.W. Brands

#6. Bill Clinton beat Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, for the White House in 1992 by focusing on 'the economy, stupid' - and Clinton's victory led, in time, to the longest sustained boom in American history.

Nigel Hamilton

#7. [On George H.W. Bush vs. Michael Dukakis:] Americans now know they can vote for a man who can't express his thoughts or a man who can't express his feelings.

Mary McGrory

#8. Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

Ann Coulter

#9. George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.

Christopher Buckley

#10. I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.

David E. Hoffman

#11. Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great example. His son's speech was also quite powerful.

Mark McKinnon

#12. But most accounts agree that the residence workers' devotion to President George H. W. Bush was more than customary - it was genuine, almost profound. The Bushes were generally easy to please, and the residence workers found themselves quickly at ease with them.

Kate Andersen Brower

#13. A troubled economy is always the sitting president's fault. It was when Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter, when Bill Clinton defeated George H.W. Bush, and when Barack Obama defeated John McCain by running against George W. Bush.

Mark McKinnon

#14. When I was starting out in 1988, I was doing cartoons on President George H. W. Bush, Iraq and the fall of Soviet Union.

Steve Breen

#15. The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.

Bobby Ray Inman

#16. director under George H. W. Bush

Ted Bell

#17. He's [G.H.W. Bush] never had to do a day's work in his life.

Bob Dole

#18. When Ronald Reagan chose George H.W. Bush in 1980, it was a clear signal that he was running an inclusive campaign; that he welcomed the moderate and even liberal wings of the GOP - there was a liberal wing back then - into his campaign.

Jeff Greenfield

#19. One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.

H.W. Brands

#20. The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

George H. W. Bush

#21. It's amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you're no longer president.

George H. W. Bush

#22. 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.

George H. W. Bush

#23. 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.

George H. W. Bush

#24. 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.

George H. W. Bush

#25. 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.

George H. W. Bush

#26. 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.

George H. W. Bush

#27. You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

George H. W. Bush

#28. As president, I watched in wonder as Nelson Mandela had the remarkable capacity to forgive his jailers following 26 years of wrongful imprisonment - setting a powerful example of redemption and grace for us all.

George H. W. Bush

#29. Now we can see a new world coming into view, a world where there is a very real prospect of a New World Order.

George H. W. Bush

#30. People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

George H. W. Bush

#31. People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

George H. W. Bush

#32. 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.

George H. W. Bush

#33. I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.

George H. W. Bush

#34. We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!

George H. W. Bush

#35. Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.

George H. W. Bush

#36. Anyone who (dis)likes G. W. Bush, but (dis)likes B. H. Obama, is either completely delusional or a complete idiot.

Michel Templet

#37. Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

George H. W. Bush

#38. In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.

George H. W. Bush

#39. Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. (And) I didn't seek this job but I want to do it, and I will do my very best.

George H. W. Bush

#40. We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God.

George H. W. Bush

#41. We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family. To make them more like The Waltons and less like The Simpsons.

George H. W. Bush

#42. 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.

George H. W. Bush

#43. 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.

George H. W. Bush

#44. Thousand points of light.

George H. W. Bush

#45. I don't write letters anymore.

George H. W. Bush

#46. America needs to be a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons.

George H. W. Bush

#47. I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.

George H. W. Bush

#48. I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

George H. W. Bush

#49. What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

George H. W. Bush

#50. 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.

George H. W. Bush

#51. The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It's to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.

George H. W. Bush

#52. 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.

George H. W. Bush

#53. The liberation of Kuwait has begun. In conjunction with the forces of our coalition partners, the United States has moved under the code name Operation Desert Storm to enforce the mandates of the United Nations Security Council.

George H. W. Bush

#54. There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after.

George H. W. Bush

#55. Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

George H. W. Bush

#56. International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all differences, but they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to peace as surely as water wears away a hard stone.

George H. W. Bush

#57. Know what you're talking about.

George H. W. Bush

#58. 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.

George H. W. Bush

#59. We have ... drawn a line in the sand.

George H. W. Bush

#60. Now that I am no longer President, I find I can no longer win every game of golf I play.

George H. W. Bush

#61. Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history ... Socrates gave advice

George H. W. Bush

#62. Equality begins with economic empowerment.

George H. W. Bush

#63. It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

George H. W. Bush

#64. The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.

George H. W. Bush

#65. A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.

George H. W. Bush

#66. 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.

George H. W. Bush

#67. By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.

George H. W. Bush

#68. Atheists are not Americans.

George H. W. Bush

#69. The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

George H. W. Bush

#70. I worry about international terror as a method for bringing about political change or sociological change in different countries. And this concerns me because our homeland is not immune from this kind of dastardly attack. And so I worry about that a lot.

George H. W. Bush

#71. But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.

George H. W. Bush

#72. You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't.

George H. W. Bush

#73. 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.

George H. W. Bush

#74. You got to wrestle with your conscience. You got to listen to people. It doesn't come so easy to me that this is right and that's wrong. It's never that simple.

George H. W. Bush

#75. I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

George H. W. Bush

#76. A time of historic change is no time for recklessness.

George H. W. Bush

#77. This aggression will not stand. With these words, George Bush committed the United States to the liberation of the oil-rich Kingdom of Kuwait, after it had been occupied by the Republic of Iraq in August of 1990.

George H. W. Bush

#78. Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.

George H. W. Bush

#79. Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

George H. W. Bush

#80. But I see history as a book with many pages
and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.

George H. W. Bush

#81. Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.

George H. W. Bush

#82. Both must make tangible, immediate steps toward this vision.

George H. W. Bush

#83. Old guys can still do fun things.

George H. W. Bush

#84. By the grace of God, we won the Cold War.

George H. W. Bush

#85. I'm not what you call your basic intellectual.

George H. W. Bush

#86. 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?

George H. W. Bush

#87. It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.

George H. W. Bush

#88. I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job.

George H. W. Bush

#89. There are things we can do to give us a little more attention ... I've got to look more frantic.

George H. W. Bush

#90. Sheldon Adelson, for example, gave more than $53 million to Super PACs, but all eight of the candidates he supported lost.59 Karl Rove, a strategic mastermind who won fame advising George W. Bush, oversaw groups that spent $175 million and still lost twenty-one out of thirty elections.

Laurence H. Tribe

#91. The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

George H. W. Bush

#92. We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

George H. W. Bush

#93. A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.

George H. W. Bush

#94. There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death.

George H. W. Bush