Author: George W. Bush Page 20

Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties.

(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

We want them to know how to teach the science of reading… in order to make sure there's not this kind of federal… federal cufflink.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before… I am a boon to the English language.

(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

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

It’s about past seven in the evening here so we’re actually in different time lines.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

And there's no doubt in my mind, not one doubt in my mind, that we will fail.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

We got plenty of money in Washington; what we need is more priority.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

And most importantly, Alma Powell, secretary of Colin Powell, is with us.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

There's a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I miss being pampered.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.

(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

The question is, who ought to make that decision? … the Congress or the commanders? … and as you know, my position is clear – I'm a commander guy.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

There's a lot of neighborliness taking place in the state of Virginia and North Carolina and Maryland, where if somebody hurts and somebody's lonely, somebody needs help is finding refuge and solace because a fellow citizen has taken it upon him or herself to help somebody in need.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I learned some pretty interesting lessons as the governor; and one lesson is that in order for schools to succeed, you'd better have you a good principal.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Thirdly the explorationists are willing to only move equipment during the winter, which means they’ll be on ice roads, and remove the equipment as the ice begins to melt, so that the fragile tundra is protected.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

There is no such thing necessarily in a dictatorial regime of iron-clad absolutely solid evidence. The evidence I had was the best possible evidence that he had a weapon.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president