Author: George W. Bush Page 2

Public speaking is very easy.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Then you wake up at the high school level and find out that the illiteracy level of our children are appalling.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

He married, like me, above his head.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

These people don't have tanks… they don't have ships… they hide in caves… they send suiciders out.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

My attitude is, if they're still writing about [number] one, 43 doesn't need to worry about it.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I want to thank you for strategizing our discussions.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

We want people owning their home – we want people owning a businesses.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I listen carefully to their advice; but having gathered the device [sic], I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

The important question is, how many hands have I shaked?

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

People say, how can I help on this war against terror? … How can I fight evil? … you can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Natural gas is hemispheric; I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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


(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

In my judgment, when the United States says there will be serious consequences, and if there isn't serious consequences, it creates adverse consequences.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

We’re in for a long struggle, and I think Texans understand that… and so do Americans.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

One of the interesting initiatives we’ve taken in Washington, D.C., is we’ve got these vampire-busting devices. A vampire is a – a cell deal you can plug in the wall to charge your cell phone.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I’m also not very analytical. You know I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I hope we get to the bottom of the answer; it's what I'm interested to know.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

If I become president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Anyway, after we go out and work our hearts out, after you go out and help us turn out the vote, after we've convinced the good Americans to vote, and while they're at it, pull that old George W. lever; if I'm the one, when I put my hand on the Bible, when I put my hand on the Bible, that day when they swear us in, when I put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not – to uphold the laws of the land.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I do remain confident in Linda; she'll make a fine labor secretary; from what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly qualified.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president