George H. W. Bush

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

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

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.

Every loss of life is terrible.

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

I like a colorful sock. I’m a sock man.

When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information through Soviet foreign intelligence channels.

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.

But free capital mobility is a high priority for the business world: it increases profit and also provides a powerful weapon to undermine labor organizing by threat of job transfer-technically illegal, but highly effective…

John McCain fought in Vietnam – I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.

We don’t let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

The PR industry…have a conception of what a democracy ought to be…the specialized class are trained to do their work for the service of the masters…and the rest of the population ought to be deprived of any form of organization because organization just causes trouble.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.

I read in Novaya Gazeta a list of all the properties owned by Roman Abramovich, and it’s incredible. I’m ashamed.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.

Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

I’m eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they’ve trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.