George H. W. Bush

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

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

Read my lips: no new taxes.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark.

You have to be odd to be number one.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.

I don’t read history. That’s in the past. I’m thinking of the future.

Things that seemed simple and superfluous had some meaning, maybe it wasn’t a great meaning, it didn’t shake the world…

From the day I arrived, California seemed like an enchanted land.

This is the only reason Greenfield Village exists-to give us a sense of unity with our people through the generations, and to convey the inspiration of American genius to our young men. As a nation we have not depended so much on rare or occasional genius as on the general resourcefulness of our people. That is our true genius, and I am hoping that Greenfield Village will serve that.

It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.