Quotes By George H. W. Bush

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

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

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.

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

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

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

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

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

I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

I like a colorful sock. I'm a sock man.

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

I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

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

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.

No, I'm not anguished and tormented.

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

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.

It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

Debates, I hate.

The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

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.