Author: George W. Bush Page 4

I'm gonna talk about the ideal world, Chris… I've read – I understand reality; if you're asking me as the president, would I understand reality, I do.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

They have miscalculated me as a leader.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

We’ve had a great weekend here in the Land of the Enchanted.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

But the true strength of America is found in the hearts and souls of people like Travis, people who are willing to love their neighbor, just like they would like to love themselves.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

Anyone engaging in illegal financial transactions will be caught and persecuted.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

Anyway, after we go out and work our hearts out, after you go out and help us turn out the vote, after we've convinced the good Americans to vote, and while they're at it, pull that old George W. lever; if I'm the one, when I put my hand on the Bible, when I put my hand on the Bible, that day when they swear us in, when I put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not – to uphold the laws of the land.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

I suspect that had my dad not been president, he’d be asking the same questions: How’d your meeting go with so-and-so? … How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address – state of the budget address – whatever you call it.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important; not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in… you know… the dark dungeons of the Internet.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

Mars is essentially in the same orbit… Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

I listen carefully to their advice; but having gathered the device [sic], I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking.”

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

There's a huge trust; I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.’

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

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

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?'… well, Mandela's dead; because Saddam killed all the Mandelas.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how – the nature of the government in which people live.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

My job is a job to make decisions. I'm a decision – if the job description were, what do you do—it's decision maker.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

And that’s why I’m here at the community college system today.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

And I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms