Author: George W. Bush Page 14

[The Space Shuttle] Columbia carried in its payroll classroom experiments from some of our students in America.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

There is no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say: Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I can assure you that, even though I won’t be sitting through every single moment of the seminars, nor will the vice president, we will look at the summaries.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Perhaps one way will be, if we use military force, in the post-Saddam Iraq, the U.N. will definitely need to have a role; and that way it can begin to get its legs, legs of responsibility back.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

My attitude is, if they're still writing about [number] one, 43 doesn't need to worry about it.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Let the others have the charisma, I've got the class.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I know something about being a government… and you've got a good one.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I’m confident we can work with Congress to come up with an economic stimulus package that will send a clear signal to the risk takers and capital formators of our country.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

We’ve got hundreds of sites to exploit, looking for the chemical and biological weapons…

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer – prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down, and I'm one of them.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

And everybody wants to be loved – not everybody… you never heard anybody say, ‘I want to be despised, I’m running for office.’

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I confirmed to the prime minister that we appreciate our friendship.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Oftentimes what I try to say in Washington gets filtered and sometimes my words in Washington don't exactly translate directly to the people.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

To paraphrase President Kennedy, there's America, and then there's Texas. We have great relations with France. We work closely with the French government on a lot of issues.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

America better beware of a candidate who is willing to stretch reality in order to win points.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory – and success.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

We've tripled the amount of money – I believe it's from $50 million up to $195 million available.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

John Thune has got a common-sense vision for good forest policy. I look forward to working with him in the United Nations Senate to preserve these national heritages.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president