George H. W. Bush

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

Every loss of life is terrible.

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.

I’m a conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

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

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

Sometimes it’s important to watch what the president does rather than what he says.

Both prisons and inner-city schools target a kind of superfluous population that there’s no point educating because there’s nothing for them to do. Because we’re a civilized people, we put them in prison, rather than sending death squads out to murder them.

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out.

To lay down… limits to the action of the government; to confer certain rights on private persons, and to secure to them the undisputed enjoyment of those rights… [are] the main objects.

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

I hold it to be… a detestable maxim that, politically speaking, the people have a right to do anything.

We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.

Crazy Dennis Rodman is saying I wanted to go to North Korea with him. Never discussed, no interest, last place on Earth I want to go to.

With regards to the infrastructure, these 11 stadiums. Of course, we spent a lot of money on this and it is imperative that all of this infrastructure, I completely agree, it must work and above all work toward the development of sport on a large scale.

I don’t respond in any way to personal abuse that is thrown at me.