Author: George W. Bush Page 11

For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings; and, folks, this is unacceptable in America.

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

Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right.

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

Should the Iranian regime – do they have the sovereign right to have civilian nuclear power? … so, like, if I were you, that's what I'd ask me; and the answer is, yes, they do.

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

My job is a job to make decisions. I'm a decision – if the job description were, what do you do—it's decision maker.

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

I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy on teaching children to read and having an education system that's responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, will make America what we want it to be – a more literate country and a hopefuller country.

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

The legislature's job is to write law; it's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Congress Government Law President

You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Characteristics Intelligence Time

I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

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

I’ve got God’s shoulder to cry on… and I cry a lot.

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

I've been in the Bible every day since I've been the president.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Books Communication President

I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans.

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

The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer – prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down, and I'm one of them.

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

And so the fact that they purchased the machine meant somebody had to make the machine; and when somebody makes a machine, it means there's jobs at the machine-making place.

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

I suspect that had my dad not been president, he’d be asking the same questions: How’d your meeting go with so-and-so? … How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address – state of the budget address – whatever you call it.

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

I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese – that meant that they weren't very effective.

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

We've got pockets of persistent poverty in our society, which I refuse to declare defeat – I mean, I refuse to allow them to continue on; and so one of the things that we're trying to do is to encourage a faith-based initiative to spread its wings all across America, to be able to capture this great compassionate spirit.

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

We are making steadfast progress.

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

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
Bushisms

All of us in America want there to be fairness when it comes to justice.

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

You see, not only did the attacks help accelerate a recession, the attacks reminded us that we are at war.

(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