George W. Bush

“The future will be better tomorrow”

“I think we agree, the past is over. ”

“See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." —George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003”

“It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." —George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.”

“There is 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.' - Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000”

“I'm not the expert on how the Iraqi people think, because I live in America, where it's nice and safe and secure." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2004”

“You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005”

“You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." --George W. Bush, interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006”

“I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas. --George W. Bush, on the former South African president, who is still very much alive, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007”

“I fully understand those who say you can't win this thing militarily. That's exactly what the United States military says, that you can't win this military.”

“Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere”

“Today our nation saw evil...and we responded with the best of America.”

“I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)”

“Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country."(Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 6 September, 2004)”

“I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive.”

“Government should do a few things, and do them right”

“You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.”

“Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same way. But let us never forget ... beyond Europe's borders, in a world where oppression and violence are very real, liberation is still a moral goal, and freedom and security still need defenders.”

“This storm is dangerous ”

“It’s clearly a budget. It’s got lots of numbers in it.”

“For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.”

“Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test.”

“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”

“Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have left undone. We are limited only by what we are willing to do.”

“I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be -- hold hands.”

“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”

“In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.”

“My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.”

“When I say drop your pants and show me the moon, I'm not just whistling Dixie!”

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”

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

“The thing that's important for me is to remember what's the most important thing.”

“Reading is the basics for all learning.”

“Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech.”

“They misunderestimated me.”

“We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't fear the voices of people. And yet they do.”

“Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.”

“When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.”

“It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.”

“Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.”

“This may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about.. when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.”

“The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror...so today I vetoed it”

“Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.”

“The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.”

“I think war is a dangerous place.”

“I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong.”

“I talked to my little brother, Jeb -- I haven't told this to many people. But he's the governor of -- I shouldn't call him my little brother -- my brother, Jeb, the great Governor of Texas.”

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

“I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question”

“The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.”