Author: George W. Bush Page 8

I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

As Luce reminded me, he said, without data, without facts, without information, the discussions about public education mean that a person is just another opinion.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

It will take time to restore chaos and order [in Iraq] … order out of chaos… but we will.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Amnesty means that you've got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

But I also made it clear to (Vladimir Putin) that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Washington is a town where there's all kinds of allegations… And if people have got solid information, please come forward with it. And that would be people inside the information who are the so-called anonymous sources, or people outside the information – outside the administration.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

There's no such thing as legacies…. at least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

My answer is bring them on.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Many Americans have got debts; we want those Americans to be able to pay off that debts.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I think—tide turning – see, as I remember – I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of—it's easy to see a tide turn—did I say those words?

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk—that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras—it got drunk and now it's got a hangover. The question is how long will it sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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

I don’t remember debates. I don’t think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don’t remember.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.

(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

Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president