George H. W. Bush

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

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

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody’s permission or to obey anybody’s orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

A considerable share of the world’s population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

…the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.

Ultimately it’s a question of whether democracy is going to be allowed to exist, and to what extent. And it’s entirely natural that the business world, along with the state, which they largely dominate, would want to limit democracy. It threatens them.

I believe that President Trump of the United States does not need any advice because one has to possess certain talent and go through this trial to be elected, even without having the experience of such big administrative work. He has done this.

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers – they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

I don’t regret anything. I did everything absolutely correctly.

Anarcho-syndicalism is a particular variety of anarchism which was concerned primarily, though not solely, but primarily with control over work, over the work place, over production. It took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions…

Europe has not been a heterogenous society to anything like the extent that the United States has. Nor has it been as mobile a society as the United States. These matters have been a bit under the cover, but they’re harder to keep under the cover.