Author: George W. Bush Page 17

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

You've also got to measure in order to begin to effect change that's just more — when there's more than talk, there's just actual—a paradigm shift.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

There may be some tough times here in America, but this country has gone through tough times before, and we're going to do it again.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Governor Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

We're fixing to go down to Galveston and obviously are going to see a devastated part of this fantastic state.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I'm a follower of American politics.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

God loves you, and I love you. And you can count on both of us as a powerful message that people who wonder about their future can hear.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I firmly believe the death tax is good for people from all walks of life all throughout our society.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses – Hispanically owned or otherwise – pay taxes at the highest marginal rate.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

This is our first event in this beautiful spot, and it's appropriate we talk about policy that will affect people's lives in a positive way in such a beautiful, beautiful part of our national – really, our national park system, my guess is you would want to call it.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

It's your money; you paid for it.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Actually, I – this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it; when I’m talking about – when I’m talking about myself, and when he’s talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin and in Leipzig. By the end of that year, every communist dictatorship in Central America had collapsed.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

And so, I hope investors, you know-secondly, I hope investors hold investments for periods of time – that I've always found the best investments are those that you salt away based on economics.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

You see, not only did the attacks help accelerate a recession, the attacks reminded us that we are at war.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

If I become president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president