George H. W. Bush

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

Debates, I hate.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‘gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.’ Nope.

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

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there’s too much guilt.

I Shall Return!

There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it.

Change isn’t a light switch; it’s slow and gradual.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

There is nothing ever wrong with ability, ambition, achievement; but they can easily be wronged by being used to bad ends.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.