You saw the president yesterday. I thought he was very forward-leaning, as they say in diplomatic nuanced circles. (referring to his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, July 23, 2001)
George Walker Bush Quotes
If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier – just as long as I’m the dictator. (Washington, DC, Dec 18, 2000, during his first trip to Washington as President-Elect)
Throughout the 20th century, small groups of men seized control of great nations, built armies and arsenals, and set out to dominate the weak and intimidate the world. In each case, their ambitions of cruelty and murder had no limit.
America, at its best, is also courageous.
In the corporate world, sometimes things aren’t exactly black and white when it comes to accounting practices.
I want to thank you for coming to the White House to give me an opportunity to urge you to work with these five senators and three congressmen, to work hard to get this trade promotion authority moving. The power that be, well most of the power that be, sits right here.
It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber. (Washington, D.C., April 10, 2002)
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… Can’t living with the bill means it won’t become law. (referring to the McCain-Kennedy patients’ bill of rights, June 13, 2001)
I want the folks to see me sitting in the same kind of seat they sit in, eating the same popcorn, peeing in the same urinal. (Explaining his choice to sit “among the fans” when involved in management of the Texas Rangers, Time Magazine interview, 1989)
I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth. (Nashua, N.H., as quoted by Gail Collins in the New York Times, Feb. 1, 2000)
