American politician & U.S. President (1946- )
The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond.
GEORGE W. BUSH
Decision Points
Goodbye, from the world's biggest polluter.
GEORGE W. BUSH
remarks at Tokyo G8 Summit, July 12, 2008
I'm a uniter, not a divider.
GEORGE W. BUSH
Salon Magazine, May 6, 1999
Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
GEORGE W. BUSH
Address to a Joint Session of Congress, September 20, 2001
We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.
GEORGE W. BUSH
speech, December 18, 2005
This is an impressive crowd -- the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite; I call you my base.
GEORGE W. BUSH
speech to Al Smith Dinner for charity, October 20, 2000
I hear there's rumors on the internets that we're going to have a draft. We're not going to have a draft, period.
GEORGE W. BUSH
U.S. Presidential Debate, October 8, 2004
You know, I could run for governor and all this but I'm basically a media creation. I've never really done anything. I've worked for my dad. I worked in the oil industry. But that's not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public office.
GEORGE W. BUSH
Midland Reporter Telegram, July 4, 1989
There are some who feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on.
GEORGE W. BUSH
press conference, July 2, 2003
I care what 51 percent of the people think about me.
GEORGE W. BUSH
Oprah, September 20, 2000
In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.
GEORGE W. BUSH
remarks at the Radio and Television Correspondents Association Dinner, March 29, 2001
Mankind is drawn to the heavens for the same reason we were once drawn into unknown lands and across the open sea. We choose to explore space because doing so improves our lives, and lifts our national spirit. So let us continue the journey.
GEORGE W. BUSH
speech at NASA Headquarters, January 14, 2004
No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.
GEORGE W. BUSH
The New Yorker, January 19, 2004
A dictatorship would be a lot easier ... so long as I'm the dictator.
GEORGE W. BUSH
Governing Magazine, July 1998
It was amazing I won. I was running against peace and prosperity and incumbency.
GEORGE W. BUSH
The New York Times, June 16, 2001
The way I see it is, I am a boon to the English language.
GEORGE W. BUSH
remarks at the Radio and Television Correspondents Association Dinner, March 29, 2001
I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president.
GEORGE W. BUSH
attributed, Bush at War
There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.
GEORGE W. BUSH
speech, November 19, 1999
While we must devote enormous energy to conquering disease, it is equally important that we pay attention to the moral concerns raised by the new frontier of human embryo stem cell research. Even the most noble ends do not justify any means.
GEORGE W. BUSH
speech, August 9, 2001
Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.
GEORGE W. BUSH
speech to National Endowment for Democracy, October 6, 2005