Quotes About George

#1. It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.

Douglas Brinkley

#2. doing here, George." The supportive chuff he got in return was exactly the vote of

J.R. Ward

#3. Dude, this transcends politics. George W. Bush is wiping his ass with the Constitution.

Kenneth Eade

#4. There is a visceral dislike of George Bush, and it's going to bring these guys together.

Terry McAuliffe

#5. President George Washington used to wear a wig and make-up. I mean, c'mon, if he could do it, I can do it.

Nikki Sixx

#6. Well, I know that George Lucas doesn't like it at all. When I was working on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, he told me that he would be happy if every copy could be tracked down and smashed ...

Kevin J. Anderson

#7. I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president.

Pat Robertson

#8. The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns.

Erma Bombeck

#9. 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

#10. There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are the Benjamin Franklins? Where is Sam Adams? Where is John Adams?

Beck

#11. Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life.

Sarah Palin

#12. No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA."
He had had a classical education.

J.M. Barrie

#13. I am proud to do so for I know that by supporting George W. Bush, I serve my country well.

John McCain

#14. To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if you drop a stitch."

[From a letter to George Lyttelton]

Rupert Hart-Davis

#15. George Jessel's newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town's paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka.

Lucius Beebe

#16. I never liked hearing anyone say I was the new George Gershwin, because I knew I could have never even carried that man's music case. If George Gershwin hadn't died when he was thirty-nine years old, there is no knowing how much more great music he would have written.

Burt Bacharach

#17. I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen.

John Lennon

#18. Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#19. Dancing is just a vertical expression of a horizontal intent. - George McAllister

Kim Dare

#20. George W. Bush, who said to Pope John Paul II, Give us a visit, and bring the missus. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#21. George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

A.J.P. Taylor

#22. We mean business, George Bush, ... and we're going to go to Congress and we're going to ask them, 'How many more of other people's children are you willing to sacrifice for the lies' And we're going to say, Shame on you. Shame on you for giving him the authority to invade Iraq.

Cindy Sheehan

#23. Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls.
We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat.
George!
Only joking, Mum.

J.K. Rowling

#24. The imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the U.S. president has no limits. I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W. Bush,

Hugo Chavez

#25. He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?

Tom Petty

#26. Where there is life, George, there is still hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough

Elizabeth Gilbert

#27. My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.

David Prowse

#28. When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know it's got legs.

Phil Bredesen

#29. George Murphy tagged that name 'Butch' on me years ago. We were all at a party and he went around tagging names on people that didn't fit them.

Cesar Romero

#30. George Burns, what a man. He read in the paper that it takes ten dollars a year to support a kid in India. So he sent his kids there.

Red Buttons

#31. George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.

Keith Richards

#32. Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.

Kate Williams

#33. Believing in George Bush was so ludicrous that believing in God almost seems rational.

Anne Lamott

#34. So please, in the name of John, Paul, George, and possibly Ringo, do not be afraid to screw up once in a while. Life can beat every creative impulse out of you and make you scared to embark in new directions. I say, embark away. (Doug French)

Heather B. Armstrong

#35. Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song?

Marty Stuart

#36. My friends call me 'George,' 'GM,' or 'Georgia.' But most people who know me from when I was little call me 'Georgia May.'

Georgia May Jagger

#37. When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.

Jesse Jackson

#38. I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

Al Gore

#39. We never know what's in us till we stand by ourselves (George Meredith, ORF)

George Meredith

#40. Working on the franchise and getting direction from George Lucas - it's something that I never thought would take place.

Samuel Witwer

#41. It'll be George Michael all over again," Dad mutters darkly to Mum, and I give a sharp intake of breath. That is AGAINST our family code. No one was supposed to mention George Michael ever again. We even turn off "Carless Whisper" whenever it comes on.

Sophie Kinsella

#42. I've heard that George Clooney did something like nine pilots before 'ER' was picked up, way back when he was doing TV. It's just the way the business works. There are a lot of pilots that we've never seen. It's protocol.

Andie MacDowell

#43. I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. And as I listened to him, I realized, that one of us ... was nuts! And for the first time ever, I went, 'Wow, it's not me!'

Lewis Black

#44. This week Bill Clinton tweeted a photo of himself reading George W. Bush's new book '41.' Then George W. Bush responded to that post on Instagram. Then John McCain said 'You two are hilarious' by telegraph.

Jimmy Fallon

#45. I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

Natalie Cole

#46. Whatever you think of George W. Bush, he left office with his faith intact, and I respect that.

David Gregory

#47. My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. We were like, 'okay, if that's what you want'. And he was a very good guest. That's a real exception to the rule.

Graham Norton

#48. Like [George] Best, there is a special fantasia about him

Fabio Capello

#49. George Pocock learned much about the hearts and souls of young men. He learned to see hope where a boy thought there was no hope, to see skill where skill was obscured by ego or by anxiety. He observed the fragility of confidence and the redemptive power of trust.

Daniel James Brown

#50. I am a thief, I am a liar, I am George Bush and my son is an asshole.

Eddie Vedder

#51. David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.

Lance Loud

#52. England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing the world of others ... I loved them: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens ... I adopted them passionately.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#53. There was the sky, filled with flat-topped clouds, cruising like a fleet of anvils across the blue. George

Paul Harding

#54. There is going to come a day when everyone here is going to need keen observation and wit to ridicule George W. Bush. But when that day comes, all we're going to have are tired puns and goofy looks. Because as you would say, we're suffering from the soft bigotry of low expectorations.

Jon Stewart

#55. I find it significant that most of the people who believe in just war have never fought in one; examples: Barack W. Bush and George H. Obama.

Michel Templet

#56. What I liked most was that George had class, the way he walked and talked, reading Shakespeare and all those books. He knew about van Gogh and Picasso, he gave me a book about Dali. And just the way he conducted himself, you could see it. He was very elegant in his manners.

Bruce Porter

#57. During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Now that Democrats control the White House and Congress, the left treats dissent as the lowest form of treason.

Monica Crowley

#58. Country music as we know it would be vastly different if it weren't for George Jones. He's in our musical DNA. All country artists will have to figure out how to even begin to live up to his kind of legacy. 'Honky Tonk Heaven,' here he comes ... though we're not ready to let go.

Pam Tillis

#59. The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

John Kricfalusi

#60. John was the ne'er-do-well father, Paul was the hardworking mother trying to keep everything together. George was a slightly surly teenager, and Ringo was this happy-go-lucky young kid with his model airplane. That's really how it was.

Ray Connolly

#61. Sometimes the truth is so bizarre and mind bending that it must be presented as fiction to be accepted.
George Saunders
The Bookseller

C. Robert Cales

#62. Gee - I could tell that one was a doozy," said Hazel. "You can say that again," said George. "Gee - " said Hazel, "I could tell that one was a doozy.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#63. George Washington said, "All I am, I owe to my mother." That's so true. My mom pushed me to get in politics. She pushed me to learn a bunch of languages. She pushed me and inspired me. She is the reason why I'm in politics.

Andrea Tantaros

#64. People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

Colin Greenwood

#65. As George Costanza would say, when they're applauding, stop.

Jason Alexander

#66. I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read - anything from 'Dragonlance,' when I was 12, to 'The Wheel of Time' and Robert Jordan stuff, to George R.R. Martin, who did 'Game of Thrones.'

Kris Holden-Ried

#67. Gendry had his own secret, though even he didn't seem to know what it was. ========== A Storm of Swords (George R. R. Martin)

Anonymous

#68. While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.

Michel Chossudovsky

#69. I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.

Siobhan Fahey

#70. Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.

Noam Chomsky

#71. To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

Jessica Lange

#72. King Arthur is treated like George Washington often is - as a hero who is so noble and so far above the common man that he seems more like a stuffed owl than a real person.

Joan Wolf

#73. George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

Christopher Hitchens

#74. I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.

Jesse Ventura

#75. George Carlin maintained that anything and everything is funny given the right context. This context also includes your own history with a given group. What I can get away with and where I can go is not a problem with my audience because they know me.

Paul Provenza

#76. Reality Tv had become the preferred drug of choice for the George Clooney obsessed housewives strung out on empty promises and splintered dreams

Saira Viola

#77. Speaking for George Will, on whose thinking I am world's foremost authority, I say: not necessarily. The heavy hitters do have heavy responsibilities.

George F. Will

#78. If George Bush [Jr.] decided he was going to turn the troops loose on Syria and Iran after that he would last in office for about 15 minutes. In fact if President Bush were to try that now even I would think that he ought to be impeached. You can't get away with that sort of thing in this democracy.

Lawrence Eagleburger

#79. 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

#80. Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven
while Shea would still have a job leading worship.

Billy Graham

#81. I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction are George Saunders and Alice Munro.

Emily Perkins

#82. From 2002 to the end of his presidency, George W. Bush routinely was accused by the Left of 'creating chaos:' chaos in Iraq, chaos in Afghanistan, chaos in the Muslim world, chaos among our allies.

Monica Crowley

#83. George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker.

Will Rogers

#84. The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny as he's ever been, and he's still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I'll still be able to work.

Denis Leary

#85. I remember once I had lunch with George W Bush, his father, and Condoleezza Rice. Then I went home to find my dog and my neighbour's dog fighting over a dead rabbit, and I had to separate them. I like that my home life keeps things real.

Jeff Kinney

#86. I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.

Yogi Berra

#87. George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like to tell the 'C' students, you too can be president.' Even George W. Bush has George W. Bush comedy material in his act.

Jimmy Fallon

#88. When I was a young comic just starting out, I was very cautious, as I didn't want to alienate people. George Carlin's bravery became a benchmark. I became perfectly fine with alienating some people in the audience. That just comes with the territory.

Paul Provenza

#89. Jane Austen had it wrong, Sloan McKinley thought miserably as the black Lincoln Town Car drove her ever closer to the bright lights of the George Washington Bridge and the Manhattan streets she called home. A man in possession of a good fortune only wanted to get laid.

Addison Fox

#90. I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.

J. Michael Straczynski

#91. Immigration reform almost happened under President George W. Bush. Twice. And it was comprehensive.

Mark McKinnon

#92. King George V and Queen Mary had been inadequate parents. Both were shy, inhibited, inarticulate people, not given to displays of emotion or affection.

Theo Aronson

#93. So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.

Al-Waleed Bin Talal

#94. In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man.

David Strathairn

#95. I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.

David Clennon

#96. 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

#97. Man, for someone like me who had George Jones music imprinted in my DNA before birth, the last few years have been rough as a fan of country music.

Sammy Kershaw

#98. Let's face it I am not Joan Collins or Boy George.

Holly Johnson

#99. Ember was mine. The other half of me. And I would fight Talon, St George, and the entire d world to keep her safe.

Julie Kagawa

#100. It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.

Barney Frank