George H. W. Bush Quotes

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

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.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

Our God is a forgiving God.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

Old guys can still do fun things.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

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.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

I don’t write letters anymore.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.