George H. W. Bush Quotes

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
George H. W. Bush

Mother, Made, Since

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.
George H. W. Bush

Faith, War, Remember

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.
George H. W. Bush

Understand, Hurting, Criticize

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.
George H. W. Bush

Strong, Opinions, Agree

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
George H. W. Bush

Freedom, Heart, Old

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.
George H. W. Bush

America, Open, Closed

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.
George H. W. Bush

Someone, Happen, Find

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.
George H. W. Bush

Forward, Moving, America

I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
George H. W. Bush

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.
George H. W. Bush

Yourself, Son, Read

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
George H. W. Bush

Today, America, Moral

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.
George H. W. Bush

Hope, War, Fight

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.
George H. W. Bush

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
George H. W. Bush

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
George H. W. Bush

Light, Stars, Nation

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.
George H. W. Bush

I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.
George H. W. Bush

President, Combat

Our God is a forgiving God.
George H. W. Bush

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
George H. W. Bush

Here, Alright, Ageing

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.
George H. W. Bush

Life, Learned, Anyone

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.
George H. W. Bush

Words, Around, Believes

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.
George H. W. Bush

Job, Wanted, Street

Losing is tough.
George H. W. Bush

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
George H. W. Bush

Time, Through, Said

Read my lips: no new taxes.
George H. W. Bush

Read, Taxes, Lips

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: June 12, 1924

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