We are enjoying sluggish times and not enjoying them very much.
—George H. W. Bush
Topics: Economics
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
—George H. W. Bush
Topics: Listening, Honor, Leadership
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
—George H. W. Bush
Topics: Helpfulness
The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels
—George H. W. Bush
Topics: Defense
I have opinions of my own – strong opinions – but I don’t always agree with them
—George H. W. Bush
Topics: Funny quotes, Opinions
I take as my guide the hope of a saint:
in crucial things, unity-
in important things, diversity-
in all things, generosity.
—George H. W. Bush
Topics: Generosity
If we’ve learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
—George H. W. Bush
Topics: Virtue
I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.
—George H. W. Bush
People say I’m indecisive, but I don’t know about that.
—George H. W. Bush
Topics: Politicians, Politics
Let the others have the charisma. I’ve got the class.
—George H. W. Bush
Topics: Class
From now on, any definition of a successful life must include serving others.
—George H. W. Bush
The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There’s nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.
—George H. W. Bush
Topics: Parenting
What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
—George H. W. Bush
Topics: Bores, Boredom
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
Topics: Humanity
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
Topics: Food, Eating
I don’t know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
—George H. W. Bush
Topics: Atheism
A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens – citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization.
—George H. W. Bush
Topics: Service
Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.
—George H. W. Bush
Communism didn’t fall. It was pushed.
—George H. W. Bush
Topics: Communism
You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
—George H. W. Bush
Topics: World
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