George H. W. Bush

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

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.

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

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

Debates, I hate.

It’s not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures- it’s inevitable. But unless the process that is taking place here and elsewhere in the country and around the world, unless that continues to grow and becomes a major force in the social and political world, the chances for a decent future are not very high.

I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.

Marx analysed what was happening in a quite brilliant way, if we are investing in infrastructure then we the public should get the benefit of it.

The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA-infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great – but must suffer the consequences!

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.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

Large corporate advertisers on TV will rarely sponsor programs that engage in serious criticisms of corporate activities, such as the problem of environmental degradation, the workings of the military-industrial complex, or corporate support of and benefits from 3rd World tyrannies.

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

Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place

Whoever is the first to cry ‘Stop the thief’ is the one who is guilty.

Public officials are all right if they stay in their proper sphere and perform their proper functions but when they get greedy for wider scope and more power and money they lose their value and become parasites.

We are not going to close anything… I also worked in the security services and know it is easiest to ban, and harder to find civilized solutions. Therefore, I’m going to urge all my colleagues to take this route, the route of security and law enforcement agencies using modern methods to combat offences, including terrorism, without restricting freedoms including on the Internet.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

One day we took each other by the hand and went for a walk in the evening. And we walked like that for our whole life.