American politician & U.S. President (1924-2018)
Our nation is the enduring dream of every immigrant who ever set foot on these shores, and the millions still struggling to be free. This nation, this idea called America, was and always will be a new world -- our new world.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
State of the Union Address, January 31, 1990
This is America ... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
Read my lips: no new taxes.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the Nation and gentler the face of the world.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
Inaugural Address, January 20, 1989
Weakness and ambivalence lead to war.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
news conference, August 27, 1987
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
news conference, March 22, 1990
They only name things after you when you're dead or really old.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
speech, April 26, 1999
The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It's to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
State of the Union Address, January 31, 1990
Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
I know this about the American people: We welcome competition. We'll match our ingenuity, our energy, our experience and technology, our spirit and enterprise against anyone.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
State of the Union Address, January 31, 1990
I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
speech, April 26, 1999
If you believe that there's a being superior to yourself and that will guide you, strengthen you that helps a lot but, you know, you just have to stay the course. You just got to stay in there. You cannot be waffling or taking a poll to see what people think. You have to do what you think is right.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
Larry King Live, September 5, 2005
The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
address to joint session of Congress, February 9, 1989
I will never apologize for the United States -- I don't care what the facts are.... I'm not an apologize-for-America kind of guy.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
commenting on the Navy warship USS Vincennes having shot down Iran Air Flight 655 in a commercial air corridor on July 3, killing 290 civilians, Time Magazine, September 12, 1988
Equality begins with economic empowerment.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family. To make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
statement at the 1992 Republican National Convention
There are truckloads of broccoli at this very minute descending on Washington. My family is divided. For the broccoli vote out there: Barbara loves broccoli. She has tried to make me eat it. She eats it all the time herself. So she can go out and meet the caravan of broccoli that's coming in.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
news conference, March 22, 1990