Author: George W. Bush Page 9

It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade, there's more commerce.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

We are enjoying sluggish times and not enjoying them very much.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Nothing he [Saddam Hussein] has done has convinced me – I'm confident the Secretary of Defense – that he is the kind of fellow that is willing to forgo weapons of mass destruction, is willing to be a peaceful neighbor, that is – will honor the people – the Iraqi people of all stripes, will – values human life.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

There’s an old saying in Tennessee – I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on – shame on you; fool me – you can’t get fooled again.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Like you, I have been disgraced about what I've seen on TV that took place in prison.

(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

By making the right choices, we can make the right choice for our future.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Public speaking is very easy.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Oftentimes, we live in a processed world, you know, people focus on the process and not results.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

To paraphrase President Kennedy, there's America, and then there's Texas. We have great relations with France. We work closely with the French government on a lot of issues.

(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

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

We are making steadfast progress.

(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

Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Often times people ask me, 'Why is it that you're so focused on helping the hungry and diseased in strange parts of the world?'

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

My plan reduces the national debt, and fast; so fast, in fact, that economists worry that we're going to run out of debt to retire.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president