George H. W. Bush

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.

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.

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

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

What is the one thing that I could do to help you?

Some days, your perfume falls from your skin and settles in the staircase. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stopped on the fourth step and felt all the ways I’ve fallen in love with you.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

“I can’t do it” never accomplished anything; “I will try” has performed miracles.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I don’t believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.