Quotes By George W. Bush

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

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.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

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.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

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.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

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.

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 men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

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 terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.