Top 500 George W. Bush Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.”

— George W. Bush

202. “I expect you to work hard on our agenda.”

— George W. Bush

203. “I don’t think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don’t think that’s right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people’s lives.”

— George W. Bush

204. “I’m a patient man. And when I say I’m a patient man, I mean I’m a patient man.”

— George W. Bush

205. “We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.”

— George W. Bush

206. “I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.”

— George W. Bush

207. “During my senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can’t say anything more.”

— George W. Bush

208. “Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.”

— George W. Bush

209. “I don’t know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it’s an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.”

— George W. Bush

210. “Boston Mayor James Michael Curley once summarized the philosophy of many politicians as, “There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.”

— George W. Bush

211. “Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better.”

— George W. Bush

212. “I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office.”

— George W. Bush

213. “This thaw – took a while to thaw, it’s going to take a while to unthaw.”

— George W. Bush

214. “I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.”

— George W. Bush

215. “For too long our culture has said, “If it feels good, do it.” Now America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed: “Let’s roll”.”

— George W. Bush

216. “America needs a military where our breast and brightest are proud to serve.”

— George W. Bush

217. “If you don’t stand for anything, you don’t stand for anything!”

— George W. Bush

218. “Today the Justice Department did issue a blanket alert. It was in recognition of a general threat we received. This is not the first time the Justice Department have acted like this. I hope it is the last. But given the attitude of the evildoers, it may not be.”

— George W. Bush

219. “This is an impressive crowd: the Have’s and Have-more’s. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.”

— George W. Bush

220. “I want to help people help themselves, not have government tell people what to do. I just don’t think it’s the role of the United States to walk into a country and say, we do it this way, so should you.”

— George W. Bush

221. “Keep good relations with the Grecians.”

— George W. Bush

222. “I believe that life is valuable, even when it is unwanted, even when it is physically imperfect. I believe our society has a responsibility to defend the vulnerable and the weak. And I believe our nation should set a goal that unborn children should be welcomed in life and protected in law.”

— George W. Bush

223. “Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech.”

— George W. Bush

224. “Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace.”

— George W. Bush

225. “People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in’s house and say I love you.”

— George W. Bush

226. “The senator has got to understand if he’s going to have – he can’t have it both ways. He can’t take the high horse and then claim the low road.”

— George W. Bush

227. “The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times a new world order can emerge.”

— George W. Bush

228. “Wine is like beer except different.”

— George W. Bush

229. “Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.”

— George W. Bush

230. “There’s no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.”

— George W. Bush

231. “Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican.”

— George W. Bush

232. “I think war is a dangerous place.”

— George W. Bush

233. “I didn’t grow up in the ocean – as a matter of fact – near the ocean – I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I’m fishing.”

— George W. Bush

234. “You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.” – George W. Bush, interview with CBS News’ Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006.”

— George W. Bush

235. “We are getting more and more imports from abroad.”

— George W. Bush

236. “Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.”

— George W. Bush

237. “The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.”

— George W. Bush

238. “I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.”

— George W. Bush

239. “The future will be better tomorrow.”

— George W. Bush

240. “Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously-and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.”

— George W. Bush

241. “The worst of Nature brings out the best in our fellow human beings.”

— George W. Bush

242. “That road to V-E Day was hard and long, and traveled by weary and valiant men. And history will always record where that road began. It began here, with the first footprints on the beaches of Normandy.”

— George W. Bush

243. “You have the freedomness to celebrationalise your birthday according to your own preferentation.”

— George W. Bush

244. “Initiative and referendum make government more responsive to its citizens, neutralize the power of the special interests and stimulate public involvement in state issues.”

— George W. Bush

245. “We’re not into nation-building. We’re into justice.”

— George W. Bush

246. “It’s amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.”

— George W. Bush

247. “I think anybody who doesn’t think I’m smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.”

— George W. Bush

248. “I believe the role of government is to stand side by side with our citizens to help them realize their dreams, not tell citizens how to live their lives.”

— George W. Bush

249. “Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have helped transform 13 small colonies into a great and growing nation of more than 300 people.”

— George W. Bush

250. “Our nation must come together to unite.”

— George W. Bush