Author: George W. Bush Page 18

I guess it’s OK to call the secretary of education here ‘buddy;’ that means friend.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

And so, what Gen. Petraeus is saying, some early signs, still dangerous, but give me – give my chance a plan to work.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Arbolist… look up the word; I don't know, maybe I made it up… anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I'm not really the type to wander off and sit down and go through deep wrestling with my soul.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Other Republican candidates may retort [sic] to personal attacks and negative ads.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

They [our enemies] never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I think it’s really important for this great state of baseball to reach out to people of all walks of life to make sure that the sport is inclusive; the best way to do it is to convince little kids how to — the beauty of playing baseball.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

May of the punditry – of course, not you… but other punditry were quick to say, no one is going to follow the United States of America.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

My trip to Asia begins here in Japan for an important reason; it begins here because for a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

There's no cave deep enough for America, or dark enough to hide.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Too many OB/GYN’s aren’t able to practice their love with women all across the country.

(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

For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings; and, folks, this is unacceptable in America.

(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

Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Brie and cheese.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president