Prescott Bush Quotes

#1. Prominent among the American capitalists with ties to Nazi counterparts was Prescott Bush, the father of one president and grandfather of another.

Oliver Stone

#2. Prescott Bush was himself a president of the U. S. Golf Association at one time - 1935 - before he became a U.S. senator from the state of Connecticut.

Dan Jenkins

#3. I was prepared to get knocked out myself trying to knock him out, because then I could sleep at night knowing that I've given my best.

Carl Froch

#4. We had representatives of most every ethnic group in the public school, and I always felt that this gave me a sense of balance about those ethnic problems that was useful to me in later life, and particularly in political life.

Prescott Bush

#5. A batch of credit cards fattens a wallet before it thins it.

Evan Esar

#6. I'm not a millionaire. I have a high earning power, but I never did have any capital.

Prescott Bush

#7. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

Lily Tomlin

#8. That echo. It played in his head at unexpected moments, repeating certain sounds and making nonsense of them. But could you remember an echo? Memory itself was like another kind of echo, everything duplicating endlessly, in shadow versions of itself.

Damon Galgut

#9. I knew you better than anyone else. I was sure of it.

David Levithan

#10. It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.

Prescott Bush

#11. It matters not how you play the game, So long as you never lose.

Prescott Bush

#12. Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

Paul Krugman

#13. You should have seen the look on your skull...

Rich Burlew

#14. We must maintain strong defenses, military and spiritual.

Prescott Bush

#15. I emphasize ... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business.

Prescott Bush