Top 500 George W. Bush Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “No insignificant person was ever born.”

— George W. Bush

102. “The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace. They represent evil and war.”

— George W. Bush

103. “In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.”

— George W. Bush

104. “Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low.”

— George W. Bush

105. “If you don’t succeed, you run the risk of failure.”

— George W. Bush

106. “The best thing about my family is my wife. She is a great first lady. I know that sounds not very objective, but that’s how I feel. And she’s also patient. Putting up with me requires a lot of patience.”

— George W. Bush

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107. “Men are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money they don’t generate a lot of interest.”

— George W. Bush

108. “One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.”

— George W. Bush

109. “These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion.”

— George W. Bush

110. “There’s only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed the troops, I’ve got an additional responsibility to hug and that’s me and I know what it’s like.”

— George W. Bush

111. “Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”

— George W. Bush

112. “If you don’t feel something strongly you’re not going to achieve.”

— George W. Bush

113. “I can’t wait to join you in the joy of welcoming neighbors back into neighborhoods, and small businesses up and running, and cutting those ribbons that somebody is creating new jobs.”

— George W. Bush

114. “America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable governments or are hostile towards the United States.”

— George W. Bush

115. “Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.”

— George W. Bush

116. “My God, the man is a fascist – a fascist, I tell you.”

— George W. Bush

117. “We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.”

— George W. Bush

118. “It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.”

— George W. Bush

119. “More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way.”

— George W. Bush

120. “No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.”

— George W. Bush

121. “The Islam that we know is a faith devoted to the worship of one God, as revealed through The Holy Qur’an. It teaches the value and the importance of charity, mercy, and peace.”

— George W. Bush

122. “Laura and I really don’t realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis.”

— George W. Bush

123. “The enemy understands a free Iraq will be a major defeat in their ideology of hatred. That’s why they’re fighting so vociferously.”

— George W. Bush

124. “I pray daily, and I pray in all kinds of places. I mean, I pray in bed, I pray in the Oval Office. I pray a lot. And just different as the spirit moves me. And faith is an integral part of my life.”

— George W. Bush

125. “We’re still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.”

— George W. Bush

126. “If the Iranians were to have a nuclear weapon they could proliferate.”

— George W. Bush

127. “This storm is dangerous.”

— George W. Bush

128. “What people can dream, people can do.”

— George W. Bush

129. “Oftentimes people ask me, ‘Why is it that you’re so focused on helping the hungry and diseased in strange parts of the world?’”

— George W. Bush

130. “I don’t remember debates. I don’t think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don’t remember.”

— George W. Bush

131. “I come from a different generation from my Dad.”

— George W. Bush

132. “Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.”

— George W. Bush

133. “We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.”

— George W. Bush

134. “I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.”

— George W. Bush

135. “It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air!”

— George W. Bush

136. “It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.”

— George W. Bush

137. “America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.”

— George W. Bush

138. “They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak.”

— George W. Bush

139. “We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.”

— George W. Bush

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140. “These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on my schedule first thing every morning it said, ‘Intelligence Briefing.’”

— George W. Bush

141. “I’m the commander – see, I don’t need to explain – I do not need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing about being president.”

— George W. Bush

142. “The only way we can win is to leave before the job is done.”

— George W. Bush

143. “Just remember it’s the birds that’s supposed to suffer, not the hunter.”

— George W. Bush

144. “This is a war between good and evil. And we have made it clear to the world that we will stand strong on the side of good, and we expect other nations to join us. This is not a war between our world and their world. It is a war to save the world.”

— George W. Bush

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145. “There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.”

— George W. Bush

146. “I’m honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.”

— George W. Bush

147. “Mankind is drawn to the heavens for the same reason we were once drawn into unknown lands and across the open sea. We choose to explore space because doing so improves our lives, and lifts our national spirit. So let us continue the journey.”

— George W. Bush

148. “Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It’s a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It’s also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend-even a friend whose name it never knew.”

— George W. Bush

149. “Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God’s gift to humanity.”

— George W. Bush

150. “If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.”

— George W. Bush