Quotes By George W. Bush

I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.