Quotes By George H. W. Bush

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

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.

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

Old guys can still do fun things.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

Our God is a forgiving God.

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.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.