Top 500 George W. Bush Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “I’m asking Congress to pass my Zero Down Payment Initiative. We should remove the 3 percent down payment rule for first time home buyers with FHA-insured mortgages.”

— George W. Bush

452. “It’s essential that we do what’s right – not necessarily what appears to be immediately popular.”

— George W. Bush

453. “The biggest threat facing America is terrorists with weapons of mass destruction.”

— George W. Bush

454. “As a president, my job is not to promote a religion, my job is to call people to serve our country.”

— George W. Bush

455. “In terms of the economy, look, I inherited a recession, I am ending on a recession.”

— George W. Bush

456. “But oftentimes I’m asked: Why? Why do you care what happens outside of America?”

— George W. Bush

457. “Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.”

— George W. Bush

458. “The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like.”

— George W. Bush

459. “It helps me sleep at night.”

— George W. Bush

460. “Americans spend 6 billion hours a year filling out their tax reforms.”

— George W. Bush

461. “Never paint your wife or your mother.”

— George W. Bush

462. “I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists.”

— George W. Bush

463. “We need to have mentoring programs energized by government, paid for by government, but who exist not because of government. Teen Challenge is a way to get people off drugs and alcohol. Teen Challenge is a faith-based program that changes people’s hearts.”

— George W. Bush

464. “I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.”

— George W. Bush

465. “Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how – the nature of the government in which people live.”

— George W. Bush

466. “The course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others.”

— George W. Bush

467. “Do you realize we’ve got 250 million years of coal? But coal has got environmental hazards to it, but there’s-I’m convinced, and I know that we-technology can be developed so we can have zero-emissions coal-fired electricity plants.”

— George W. Bush

468. “It’s important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots.”

— George W. Bush

469. “I wish I wasn’t the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don’t.”

— George W. Bush

470. “We’ve got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood.”

— George W. Bush

471. “The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.”

— George W. Bush

472. “Do not allow defeat to extinguish your dreams. If you keep working and remain optimistic, opportunities can come your way.”

— George W. Bush

473. “A good run adds a little bounce to my step. I get a certain amount of self-esteem from it.”

— George W. Bush

474. “I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. And I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave – with all five fingers – for their hospitality.”

— George W. Bush

475. “I equate freedom and peace. And I believe America, given its position in the world, must use our power to promote freedom.”

— George W. Bush

476. “The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason – to pass the tax bill on to you.”

— George W. Bush

477. “I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.”

— George W. Bush

478. “Wars are fought on objectives, not on timetable, and that’s why I’ve been so insistent upon not allowing ourselves to have policy driven by time table, but by objective.”

— George W. Bush

479. “I understand I’m running against a person who is so anxious to become president, he will do whatever it takes.”

— George W. Bush

480. “So many people commute in this country by car long enough distances to really cut into their income, their real income, that they would change their vote based on gas prices.”

— George W. Bush

481. “I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.”

— George W. Bush

482. “We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.”

— George W. Bush

483. “Not far from here where we gather today is a symbol of freedom familiar to all Americans – the Liberty Bell. When the Declaration of Independence was first read in public, the Liberty Bell was sounded in celebration, and a witness said: “It rang as if it meant something.””

— George W. Bush

484. “Our law enforcement must have every tool necessary to find and disrupt terrorists at home and abroad. That’s the task of the 21st century.”

— George W. Bush

485. “When an 18-year-old Palestinian girl is persuaded to blow herself up, and in doing so she kills a 17-year-old Israeli girl, we are watching the future itself die!”

— George W. Bush

486. “Our Nation’s founding commitment is still our deepest commitment: In our world, and here at home, we will extend the frontiers of freedom.”

— George W. Bush

487. “I strongly believe what we’re doing is the right thing. If I didn’t believe it – I’m going to repeat what I said before – I’d pull the troops out, nor if I believed we could win, I would pull the troops out.”

— George W. Bush

488. “First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren’t necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn’t mean you’re willing to kill.”

— George W. Bush

489. “And some needs and hurts are so deep they will only respond to a mentor’s touch or a pastor’s prayer. Church and charity, synagogue and mosque, lend our communities their humanity, and they will have an honored place in our plans and laws.”

— George W. Bush

490. “All of us in America want there to be fairness when it comes to justice.”

— George W. Bush

491. “Our plan will not favor religious institutions over nonreligious institutions. As president, I’m interested in what is constitutional and I’m interested in what works.”

— George W. Bush

492. “I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.”

— George W. Bush

493. “The do-not-call registry is still being challenged in court. Yet, the conclusions of the American people, the legislative branch, and the executive branch are beyond question.”

— George W. Bush

494. “All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith – face of Islam. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It’s a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It’s a faith based upon love, not hate.”

— George W. Bush

495. “The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.”

— George W. Bush

496. “Wall Street got drunk and now it’s got a hangover. And the question is, how long will it sober up and not try to do those fancy financial instruments?”

— George W. Bush

497. “I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation’s interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation’s interest.”

— George W. Bush

498. “Quotas are bad for America. It’s not the way America is all about.”

— George W. Bush

499. “How great the lie right to the top: We don’t torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our country.”

— George W. Bush

500. “I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn’t have done that. He shouldn’t have made that decision. And I’ll take responsibility for them. I’m human.”

— George W. Bush