George H. W. Bush

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

I have a form of Parkinson’s disease, which I don’t like. My legs don’t move when my brain tells them to. It’s very frustrating.

Debates, I hate.

Our God is a forgiving God.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

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

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.

So it seems like if they want to reduce abortion, the best thing to do would be to support contraception – but they’re against contraception, too, because contraception and abortion decouple sexuality from procreation. That’s why I think religious preoccupation with abortion is largely about controlling the sexuality of women.

The Ethiopian government’s use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces.

We’re numb. We’re numb to 500 kids getting killed in Chicago last year. We’re numb that there were dozens of police shootings in the beginning of July. We’re numb to places on the earth where we don’t live. Our life is OK, but it’s OK for other people’s lives to not be OK.

My life’s work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen, down on 7-11, down at the World Trade Center, right after it came down

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

The business classes are very class-conscious-they’re constantly fighting a bitter class war to improve their power and diminish opposition. Occasionally this is recognized.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

It was sort of important for us not to deal with a specific policy change, or a specific sort of approach, but to deal with cultural change.

The point of advertising is to destroy markets.