Top 500 George W. Bush Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.”

— George W. Bush

252. “Will the highways on the Internet become more few?”

— George W. Bush

253. “You cannot lead an alliance if you say you’re going alone.”

— George W. Bush

254. “If we’re an arrogant nation, they’ll resent us; if we’re a humble nation, but strong, they’ll welcome us. And our nation stands alone right now in the world in terms of power, and that’s why we’ve got to be humble, and yet project strength in a way that promotes freedom.”

— George W. Bush

255. “Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America’s gift to the world; it is God’s gift to humanity.”

— George W. Bush

256. “Sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they’re right.”

— George W. Bush

257. “A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.”

— George W. Bush

258. “The illiteracy level of our children are appalling.”

— George W. Bush

259. “Fathers have a unique and irreplaceable role in the lives of children.”

— George W. Bush

260. “Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.”

— George W. Bush

261. “The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.”

— George W. Bush

262. “I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans.”

— George W. Bush

263. “Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.”

— George W. Bush

264. “Over time it’s going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity. You’re either with us or against us in the fight against terror.”

— George W. Bush

265. “Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and compassion.”

— George W. Bush

266. “I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”

— George W. Bush

267. “Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.”

— George W. Bush

268. “Put the ‘off’ button on.”

— George W. Bush

269. “The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there’s a lot of prayer – prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down. And I’m one of them.”

— George W. Bush

270. “We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated by further exploration will inspire our young people to study math, and science, and engineering and create a new generation of innovators and pioneers.”

— George W. Bush

271. “As hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well – a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.”

— George W. Bush

272. “We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.”

— George W. Bush

273. “We will build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge. We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors.”

— George W. Bush

274. “Im a strong proponent of the restoration of the wetlands, for a lot of reasons. Theres a practical reason, though, when it comes to hurricanes: The stronger the wetlands, the more likely the damage of the hurricane.”

— George W. Bush

275. “I’m sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn’t yet.”

— George W. Bush

276. “People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.”

— George W. Bush

277. “Always chew on your pretzels before you swallow.”

— George W. Bush

278. “God’s signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own. Yet the prayers of private suffering, whether in our homes or in this great cathedral, are known and heard, and understood.”

— George W. Bush

279. “Are the peoples of the Middle East somehow beyond the reach of liberty? Are millions of men and women and children condemned by history or culture to live in despotism? Are they alone never to know freedom and never even to have a choice in the matter?”

— George W. Bush

280. “I’ve been in the Bible every day since I’ve been the president.”

— George W. Bush

281. “I do not think witchcraft is a religion, and I do not think it is in any way appropriate for the US military to promote it.”

— George W. Bush

282. “I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.”

— George W. Bush

283. “I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be – hold hands.”

— George W. Bush

284. “I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job.”

— George W. Bush

285. “When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they’re there.”

— George W. Bush

286. “Through much of the last century, America’s faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations.”

— George W. Bush

287. “The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.”

— George W. Bush

288. “There are prayers that help us last through the day, or endure the night. There are prayers of friends and strangers, that give us strength for the journey. And there are prayers that yield our will to a will greater than our own...”

— George W. Bush

289. “The woman who knew that I had dyslexia – I never interviewed her.”

— George W. Bush

290. “I was taught that we should look after the beam in our own eye before searching for the mote in someone else’s.”

— George W. Bush

291. “Islam is a vibrant faith. Millions of our fellow citizens are Muslim. We respect the faith. We honor its traditions. Our enemy does not. Our enemy doesn’t follow the great traditions of Islam. They’ve hijacked a great religion.”

— George W. Bush

292. “We’ll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.”

— George W. Bush

293. “There’s no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.”

— George W. Bush

294. “When your economy is kind of ooching along, it’s important to let people have more of their own money.”

— George W. Bush

295. “It’s a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.”

— George W. Bush

296. “The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America’s law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us.”

— George W. Bush

297. “Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear and pass along. And even after nearly 225 years, we have a long way yet to travel.”

— George W. Bush

298. “Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.”

— George W. Bush

299. “I have a duty to protect the executive branch from legislative encroachment.”

— George W. Bush

300. “We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve nowadays are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation’s uniform.”

— George W. Bush