George W. Bush famous quotes

Even grief recedes with time and grace. But our resolve must not pass. Each of us will remember what happened that day, and to whom it happened. We'll remember the moment the news came -- where we were and what we were doing. Some will remember an image of a fire, or a story of rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice gone forever.
-- George W. Bush

#Memories #Grief #Fire

People love America. Sometimes they don't like the decisions made by America, but I don't think you want a president who tries to become popular and does the wrong thing.
-- George W. Bush

#Thinking #America #People

I am sustained by the prayers of the people in this country. I guess an appropriate way to say this, it's one of the beautiful things about America and Americans from all walks of life is that they're willing to pray for the President and his family. And that's powerful. It's hard for me to describe to you what that means. It's-let me just say this: It's a leap of faith to understand.
-- George W. Bush

#Beautiful #Faith #Country

I'm not surprised that people are unsettled because of war. The enemy has got a powerful tool, and that is to get on your TV screen by killing innocent people. And my job is to continue to remind the people it's worth it, we're not going to retreat hastily, and we're not going to pull out of there before the job is done. And we have got a plan for victory.
-- George W. Bush

#Jobs #Powerful #War

I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.
-- George W. Bush

#Country #Grateful #Hard Work

I think our seniors deserve a modern medical system.
-- George W. Bush

#Senior #Thinking #Medical

Our enemies have made the mistake that America's enemies always make. They saw liberty and thought they saw weakness. And now, they see defeat.
-- George W. Bush

#Mistake #America #Enemy

If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.
-- George W. Bush

#Taxes #Raises

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.
-- George W. Bush

#Inspirational #Life #America

I come from the school of thought that says when people have more money in their pocket during economic times, it increases demand or investment. Small businesses begin to grow, and jobs are added.
-- George W. Bush

#Jobs #School #People

Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children.
-- George W. Bush

#Children #Grief #Patriotic

We don't want Washington Democrats running the House of Representatives.
-- George W. Bush

#Running #House #Want

Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.
-- George W. Bush

#Airplane #Sadness #Fire

The Democrats believe they need more of your money to spend because they can spend it better than you can. But you know, sometimes philosophers don't act.
-- George W. Bush

#Believe #Needs #Philosopher

Terrorism against our nation will not stand.
-- George W. Bush

#Terrorism

That's important when you are running an organization so that the people who work with you know what you believe in and know those beliefs won't change.
-- George W. Bush

#Running #Believe #Organization

Im a strong proponent of the restoration of the wetlands, for a lot of reasons. Theres a practical reason, though, when it comes to hurricanes: The stronger the wetlands, the more likely the damage of the hurricane.
-- George W. Bush

#Strong #Restoration #Wetlands

We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.
-- George W. Bush

#People #Enemy #Trying

I do not believe the promises of the Declaration of Independence are just for the strong, the independent, the healthy. They are for everyone-including unborn children. We are a society with enough compassion and wealth and love to care for both mothers and their children, to seek the promise and potential in every life.
-- George W. Bush

#Mother #Strong #Children

It's been a hard lesson for me , but contrary quite frankly to what is a common practice in politics, I can tell from my own experience, it is better to stay away from personalities.
-- George W. Bush

#Practice #Personality #Lessons

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
-- George W. Bush

#Nature #Children #Humorous

The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well.
-- George W. Bush

#Army #Volunteer #Troops

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.
-- George W. Bush

#Powerful #Cells #Iraq

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

#Shadow #Allies #United States

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.
-- George W. Bush

#Silly #Our Family

America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government because it does not come from government, it comes from the creator of life.
-- George W. Bush

#Pursuit Of Happiness #America #Government

You cannot solve a problem unless you diagnose the problem.
-- George W. Bush

#Problem #Solve

All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith - face of Islam. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It's a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It's a faith based upon love, not hate.
-- George W. Bush

#Brother #Hate #Inspiration

Many people are coming to this country for economic reasons. They're coming here to work. If you can make 50 cents in the heart of Mexico, for example, or make $5 here in America, $5.15, you're going to come here if you're worth your salt, if you want to put food on the table for your families. And that's what's happening.
-- George W. Bush

#Country #Heart #America

The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them.
-- George W. Bush

#Inspiration #America #Government

Look at other countries that have tried to have federally controlled health care. They have poor-quality health care. Our health-care system is the envy of the world because we believe in making sure that the decisions are made by doctors and patients, not by officials in the nation's capital.
-- George W. Bush

#Country #Believe #Doctors

Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the librarians who staff them, add immeasurably to our quality of life.
-- George W. Bush

#People #Age #Library

Health care costs are on the rise because the consumers are not involved in the decision-making process. Most health care costs are covered by third parties. And therefore, the actual user of health care is not the purchaser of health care. And there's no market forces involved with health care.
-- George W. Bush

#Party #Decision #Cost

One of the worst days in America's history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans' history. We'll always honor the heroes of 9/11. And here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.
-- George W. Bush

#Powerful #Hero #Sacrifice

Here in USA we respect someone's rights, and as we profess tolerance, we shouldn't change - or have to change - our basic views on the sanctity of marriage. I believe in the sanctity of marriage. I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution, between a man and a woman.
-- George W. Bush

#Believe #Men #Thinking

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.
-- George W. Bush

#Godly #Giving #Design

Education is how to help the person who's lost a job. Education is how to make sure we've got a workforce that's productive and competitive.
-- George W. Bush

#Jobs #Helping #Lost

Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty.
-- George W. Bush

#Lying #September #Blame

The United States of America stands for the ability for people to worship freely, the ability for people to vote and to express their opinion freely is something we hold dear.
-- George W. Bush

#America #People #United States

Free people will set the course of history.
-- George W. Bush

#People #Conservative

When it comes time to protecting the homeland, the United States of America must be right 100 percent of the time. And the enemy, which desires to strike us again, only has to be right once.
-- George W. Bush

#America #Enemy #Desire

I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.
-- George W. Bush

#Mom #War #Son

It's hard to plan and plot attacks against America if you're on the run, and that's exactly what our brave professionals are doing.
-- George W. Bush

#Running #America #Brave

Removing Saddam Hussein was the right decision early in my presidency, it is the right decision now, and it will be the right decision ever.
-- George W. Bush

#Decision #Hussein #Right Decision

We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve nowadays are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform.
-- George W. Bush

#Generations #Uniforms #Causes

I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be -- hold hands.
-- George W. Bush

#Hands #Holding Hands #Needs

Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.
-- George W. Bush

#Evil #Liberty #Special

I want everybody to hear loud and clear that I'm going to be the president of everybody.
-- George W. Bush

#President #Want #Loud

We`ll fight terrorists in Iraq, we'll fight them across the world, and we will stay in the fight until the fight is won.
-- George W. Bush

#Fighting #Iraq #World

Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
-- George W. Bush

#Justice #Enemy #Done

As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.
-- George W. Bush

#Sacrifice #Hussein #Want

The terrorists do not understand America. The American people do not falter under threat, and we will not allow our future to be determined by car bombers and assassins.
-- George W. Bush

#America #People #Car

The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.
-- George W. Bush

#Country #Majority

In Iraq we are fighting against men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons who are capable of any atrocity. They wear no uniform; they respect no laws of warfare or morality. They take innocent lives to create chaos for the cameras.
-- George W. Bush

#Fighting #Men #Iraq

I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things
-- George W. Bush

#Thinking

The terrorists can kill the innocent, but they cannot stop the advance of freedom.
-- George W. Bush

#Innocent #Terrorist

The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th.
-- George W. Bush

#Iraq #America #People

The terrorists know that the outcome will leave them emboldened or defeated. So they are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to take.
-- George W. Bush

#Campaigns #Outcomes #Limits

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

#Interesting #President #Needs

The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real.
-- George W. Bush

#Real #Iraq #Suffering

There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government. I reject that notion.
-- George W. Bush

#White #Government #Self

American mission in Iraq is clear: We're hunting down the terrorists. We're helping Iraqis build a free nation that is an ally in the war on terror. We're advancing freedom in the broader Middle East. We are removing a source of violence and instability and laying the foundation of peace for our children and our grandchildren.
-- George W. Bush

#Children #War #Hunting

More and more of our imports are coming from overseas
-- George W. Bush

There is only one course of action against terrorists: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home.
-- George W. Bush

#Home #Action #Defeat

I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,
-- George W. Bush

#Mom #Son #Golf

American nation will not wait to be attacked again. We will defend our freedom and we will take the fight to the enemy.
-- George W. Bush

#Fighting #Waiting #Enemy

America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no one will keep that light from shining.
-- George W. Bush

#Opportunity #Light #America

The terrorists believe that free societies are essentially corrupt and decadent and, with a few hard blows, they can force us to retreat. They are mistaken.
-- George W. Bush

#Believe #Blow #Retreat

War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.
-- George W. Bush

#War #Peaceful #September 11

Whatever party you're in in America, our troops deserve the full support of our government.
-- George W. Bush

#Party #Government #America

These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.But they have failed; our country is strong.
-- George W. Bush

#Country #Strong #September 11

Our goal in Iraq is victory. Our goal is for a young democracy to be able to sustain itself, govern itself, and defend itself and serve as an ally in the war on terror.
-- George W. Bush

#War #Iraq #Goal

Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me."
-- George W. Bush

#Prayer #Children #Grieving

It's important to listen to the words of the enemy if you're in war.
-- George W. Bush

#War #Enemy #Important

This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day. Yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world. Thank you. Good night, and God bless America.
-- George W. Bush

#Good Night #America #Our World

Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a ***** piece of paper!
-- George W. Bush

#Historical #Pieces #Paper

When you see a threat, you just can't hope for the best in this day and age, where terrorists are capable of inflicting damage on the homeland.
-- George W. Bush

#Age #Threat #Hoping For The Best

You see, we'll never be able to compete in the 21st century unless we have an education system that doesn't quit on children, an education system that raises standards, an education that makes sure there's excellence in every classroom.
-- George W. Bush

#Education #Children #Excellence

It's important that the United States not forget the lessons of September the 11th, 2001. I assure you, I'm not going to forget them.
-- George W. Bush

#Important #United States #Lessons

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.
-- George W. Bush

#Moving #Mean #Blood

I believe the role of government is to stand side by side with our citizens to help them realize their dreams, not tell citizens how to live their lives.
-- George W. Bush

#Dream #Believe #Government

Through adoption, Americans can forever change not only a child's life but also their own.
-- George W. Bush

#Children #Adoption #Forever

Sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they're right.
-- George W. Bush

#Thinking #Decision #World

The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times a new world order can emerge.
-- George W. Bush

#War #Moving #Opportunity

Saddam Hussein was a unique threat. And the world is better off without him in power.
-- George W. Bush

#Unique #World #Hussein

In time, perhaps, we will mark the memory of September 11th in stone and metal, something we can show children, as yet unborn, to help them understand what happened on this minute and on this day. But for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we’ll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.
-- George W. Bush

#Children #Memories #September 11

And one of the challenges, of course, is to convince people that Muslims would like to be free, that there's other people other than people in Britain and America that would like to be free in the world.
-- George W. Bush

#America #People #Challenges

Wine is like beer except different.
-- George W. Bush

#Wine #Beer #Different

After 9/11, I told the American people I would do everything in my power to protect the country, within the law, and that's exactly how I conduct my presidency.
-- George W. Bush

#Country #Law #People

All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.
-- George W. Bush

#Thanksgiving #Blessing #America

There's this kind of almost - kind of a weird kind of elitism that says well maybe - maybe certain people in certain parts of the world shouldn't be free; maybe it's best just to let them sit in these tyrannical societies. And our foreign policy rejects that concept. And we don't accept it. And so we're working.
-- George W. Bush

#People #World #Kind

These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on my schedule first thing every morning it said, 'Intelligence Briefing.'
-- George W. Bush

#Morning #Intellectual #Skins

I would never use God to promote foreign policy decisions. I recognize that in the eyes of an almighty, I am a lowly sinner, and I ask for strength and wisdom and I pray for calmness when the seas are storming, and I pray for others.
-- George W. Bush

#Eye #Sea #Decision

Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It's also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend-even a friend whose name it never knew.
-- George W. Bush

#Memories #Loss #Sacrifice

I can't imagine what it would be to be president when the United States at war with yourself. People killing each other here in America on a massive basis. Just can't imagine what it would be.
-- George W. Bush

#War #America #People

In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold.
-- George W. Bush

#Leader #Conviction #Ends

As a president, my job is not to promote a religion, my job is to call people to serve our country.
-- George W. Bush

#Country #Jobs #People

Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.
-- George W. Bush

#Iraq #Government #Doubt

In my judgment, the only way to deal with terrorists is to stay on the offensive, is to find them and bring them to justice before they hurt us again.
-- George W. Bush

#Hurt #Justice #Way

The United States and Israel have enjoyed a friendship built on mutual respect and commitment to democratic principles. Our continuing search for peace in the Middle East begins with a recognition that the ties uniting our two countries can never be broken.
-- George W. Bush

#Country #Commitment #Two