America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the Nation and gentler the face of the world.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1989
Read my lips: no new taxes.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
Equality begins with economic empowerment.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, speech, Apr. 26, 1999
Weakness and ambivalence lead to war.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
Our nation is the enduring dream of every immigrant who ever set foot on these shores, and the millions still struggling to be free. This nation, this idea called America, was and always will be a new world -- our new world.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, State of the Union Address, Jan. 31, 1990
Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
This is America ... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, State of the Union Address, Jan. 31, 1990
The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It’s to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
They only name things after you when you're dead or really old.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, speech, Apr. 26, 1999
I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, news conference, Aug. 27, 1987
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
America needs to be a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons.
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