Author: George W. Bush Page 22

I know something about being a government. And you’ve got a good one.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

There are some similarities, of course [between Iraq and Vietnam] – death is terrible.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I’m also not very analytical. You know I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

It is white.

(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

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

The thing that’s wrong with the French is that they don’t have a word for entrepreneur.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

We ought to make the pie higher.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be—hold hands.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

We want to develop defenses that are capable of defending ourselves and defenses capable of defending others.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

That's why we are inconveniencing air traffickers, to make sure nobody is carrying weapons on airplanes.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

The legislature's job is to write law; it's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I’ve got God’s shoulder to cry on… and I cry a lot.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

These immigrants have helped transform 13 small colonies into a great and growing nation of more than 300 people.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

What I'm suggesting to you is, if you can't name the foreign minister of Mexico, therefore, you know, you're not capable of what you do.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Removing Saddam Hussein was the right decision early in my presidency, it is the right decision now, and it will be the right decision ever.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president