Author: George W. Bush Page 3

I can look you in the eye and tell you I feel I've tried to solve the problem diplomatically to the max, and would have committed troops both in Afghanistan and Iraq knowing what I know today.

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

I've got very good relations with President Mubarak and Crown Prince Abdallah and the King of Jordan, Gulf Coast countries.

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

You see, the Senate wants to take away some of the powers of the administrative branch.

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

And I look forward to working with Congress. As you know, appropriators are appropriators. They live up to their name, whether they be Republicans or Democrats. They like to appropriate. And our jobs as chief executives is to make sure they appropriate within reasonable levels.

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

Perhaps one way will be, if we use military force, in the post-Saddam Iraq, the U.N. will definitely need to have a role; and that way it can begin to get its legs, legs of responsibility back.

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

So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory – and success.

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

Will the highways on the Internet become more few?

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

Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself.

(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

And I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president.

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

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

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

I don’t remember debates. I don’t think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don’t remember.

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

And there's no doubt in my mind, not one doubt in my mind, that we will fail.

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

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

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

Public speaking is very easy.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Communication Speech

The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.

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

The thing that’s wrong with the French is that they don’t have a word for entrepreneur.

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

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
Government President

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

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

The senator has got to understand if he's going to have – he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road. 

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

So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression.

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