Author: George W. Bush Page 20

I've not made up our mind about military action.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Actually, I – 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.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

We'll be a great country where the fabrics are made up of groups and loving centers.

(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

You've also got to measure in order to begin to effect change that's just more — when there's more than talk, there's just actual—a paradigm shift.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family; that's an important part of building morale in the military.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be—hold hands.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

And everybody wants to be loved – not everybody… you never heard anybody say, ‘I want to be despised, I’m running for office.’

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I like my buddies from west Texas; I liked them when I was young; I liked them then I was middle – age; I liked them before I was president; and I like them during president, and I like them after president.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

[The Space Shuttle] Columbia carried in its payroll classroom experiments from some of our students in America.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Amnesty means that you've got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

And one of the things we’ve got to make sure that we do is anything.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I'm so pleased to be able to say hello to Bill Scranton; he's one of the great Pennsylvania political families.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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

We stand for things.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

(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