George H. W. Bush

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

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

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life – on human life.

China has created very good investment tools, including an entire network of very large funds. The Russian Private Investment Fund works with some of those funds, with China’s largest investment funds.

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.

The chief evil is unlimited government…nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

One fundamental goal of any well-crafted indoctrination program is to direct attention elsewhere, away from effective power, its roots, and the disguises it assumes.

I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong to use violence, even though use of violence is in some sense unjust. I believe that one has to estimate relative justices. But the use of violence and the creation of some degree of injustice can only be justified on the basis of the claim and the assessment-which always ought to be undertaken very, very seriously and with a good deal of scepticism that this violence is being exercised because a more just result is going to be achieved.

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

I don’t blame China, I blame the incompetence of past Admins for allowing China to take advantage of the U.S. on trade leading up to a point where the U.S. is losing $100’s of billions. How can you blame China for taking advantage of people that had no clue? I would’ve done same!

Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

Don’t divide the world into “them” and “us.” Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’

I feel that [Trump] cares about the way black people feel about him, and he would like for black people to like him like they did when he was cool in the rap songs and all this.