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.

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

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

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

Our God is a forgiving God.

It’s alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

One of your tasks is to separate the “personal” from the “substantive.” The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.

I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60 percent of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today’s vote on Brexit has no constitutional legitimacy.

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

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

Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established at every level – there’s a little bargaining, a little give and take, but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I’m opposed to political fascism, I’m opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it’s pointless to talk about democracy.

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It’s not 3,000. It’s tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren’t being paid for it. It’s work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

I am sick of all the chaos and the nastiness of our politics. It’s exhausting, and frankly, it’s depressing.

China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.