George H. W. Bush

We are not the sum of our possessions.

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.

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.

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

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

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

It is only when all black groups, join hands and speak with one voice that we shall be a bargaining force which will decide its own destiny.

Nobody believes the official spokesman… but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

Based on our preliminary calculations, we may in the next six years spend 17 trillion roubles (Putin said billion, but meant trillion), but to achieve the goals that we have discussed, we will need an additional 8 trillion roubles. And it is clear where we are going to find them.

GATT and NAFTA ought to be called “investor rights agreements,” not “free trade agreements.” One of their main purposes is to extend the ability of corporations to carry out market-distorting operations internally.

Being president doesn’t change who you are – it reveals who you are.

It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.

We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice.

I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world.

Homelessness in the UK is wholly unnescessary.

In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

America didn’t invent human rights. Those rights are common to all people: nations, cultures, and religions cannot choose to simply opt out of them.

Take, say, the NYT or the Washington Post. They have dual functions and they’re contradictory. One function is to subdue the great beast. But another function is to let their audience, which is an elite audience, gain a tolerably realistic picture of what’s going on in the world.

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

The media may feel obligated to carry extremely dubious stories and mute criticism in order not to offend their sources and disturb a close relationship. It is very difficult to call authorities on whom one depends for daily news liars, even if they tell whoppers.