Author: George W. Bush

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

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

This process has been drug out a long time, which says to me it's political.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

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

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

It’s a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mential losses.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

What I'm suggesting to you is, if you can't name the foreign minister of Mexico, therefore, you know, you're not capable of what you do.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

I don’t do nuance.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

Our priorities is our faith.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

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

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

Many Americans have got debts; we want those Americans to be able to pay off that debts.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

I’ve reminded the prime minister—the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses – Hispanically owned or otherwise – pay taxes at the highest marginal rate.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

We want to develop defenses that are capable of defending ourselves and defenses capable of defending others.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

But I also made it clear to (Vladimir Putin) that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

The true threat is whether or not one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom we'll defend, offer our defenses; the South Koreans.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms

I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
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