Top 500 George W. Bush Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “You know, if you find a person that you’ve never seen before getting in a crop-duster that doesn’t belong to you, report it.”

— George W. Bush

302. “History will look back, and I’m fully prepared to accept any mistakes that history judges to my administration, because the president makes the decisions, the president has to take the responsibility.”

— George W. Bush

303. “North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.”

— George W. Bush

304. “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

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

— George W. Bush

306. “We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills.”

— George W. Bush

307. “The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them.”

— George W. Bush

308. “There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.”

— George W. Bush

309. “So, I’m lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, ‘Free at last,’ and she says ‘You’re free all right, you’re free to do the dishes.’ So I say, ‘You’re talking to the former president, baby,’ and she said, ‘consider this your new domestic policy agenda.’”

— George W. Bush

310. “Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.”

— George W. Bush

311. “America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.”

— George W. Bush

312. “I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking.”

— George W. Bush

313. “No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.”

— George W. Bush

314. “The easiest time to be faithful is during a time of crisis. The hardest time for faith is when all is well.”

— George W. Bush

315. “Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is-I’m not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I’m the president.”

— George W. Bush

316. “We are seeing some challenges and some changes in American business, American enterprise, but the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is a reminder of things that must never change: the passion for excellence, the drive to innovate, the hard work that goes with any successful enterprise.”

— George W. Bush

317. “I’ve coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically.”

— George W. Bush

318. “The Patriot Act has increased the flow of information within our government and it has helped break up terrorist cells in the United States of America. And the United States Congress was right to renew the terrorist act – the Patriot Act.”

— George W. Bush

319. “Hezbollah is not a state. They’re a, you know, supposed political party that happens to be armed.”

— George W. Bush

320. “Russia is no longer our enemy and therefore we shouldn’t be locked into a Cold War mentality that says we keep the peace by blowing each other up. In my attitude, that’s old, that’s tired, that’s stale.”

— George W. Bush

321. “I appreciate people’s opinions, but I’m more interested in news. And the best way to get the news is from objective sources. And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what’s happening in the world.”

— George W. Bush

322. “I fully understand it’s important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don’t want the state to become the church, nor do we want the church to become the state.”

— George W. Bush

323. “Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you’re going to win. And that’s where I’m coming from.”

— George W. Bush

324. “We say to seniors, we understand how important prescription drug coverage, so prescription drugs will be an ingrinable part of the Medicare plan.”

— George W. Bush

325. “I’ve directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and bring them to justice. We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.”

— George W. Bush

326. “If we don’t stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we’re going to have a serious problem coming down the road.”

— George W. Bush

327. “I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand – but the president doesn’t have a magic wand. You just can’t say, ‘low gas.’”

— George W. Bush

328. “The United States and Israel have enjoyed a friendship built on mutual respect and commitment to democratic principles. Our continuing search for peace in the Middle East begins with a recognition that the ties uniting our two countries can never be broken.”

— George W. Bush

329. “People should be allowed to express their opinion. But, Americans need to know I’ll be making up my mind based upon the latest intelligence and how best to protect our own country, plus our friends and allies.”

— George W. Bush

330. “The way I see it is, I am a boon to the English language.”

— George W. Bush

331. “Our enemies send other people’s children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice – made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life.”

— George W. Bush

332. “Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.”

— George W. Bush

333. “We are a people united by our love for freedom, even when we differ in our personal beliefs. In America, we are free to profess any faith we choose, or no faith at all.”

— George W. Bush

334. “I’m for a stronger death penalty.”

— George W. Bush

335. “One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.”

— George W. Bush

336. “They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it’s some kind of federal program.”

— George W. Bush

337. “The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.”

— George W. Bush

338. “I’m going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there’s an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.”

— George W. Bush

339. “Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all.”

— George W. Bush

340. “Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere.”

— George W. Bush

341. “The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.”

— George W. Bush

342. “The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.”

— George W. Bush

343. “If affirmative action means what I just described, what I’m for, then I’m for it.”

— George W. Bush

344. “As Americans, we want peace – we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I’m not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.”

— George W. Bush

345. “We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I’ve told people that if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.”

— George W. Bush

346. “One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.”

— George W. Bush

347. “This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It’s what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.”

— George W. Bush

348. “No matter what your politics is, we ought to be thanking people for volunteering.”

— George W. Bush

349. “I haven’t had a chance to talk, but I’m confident we’ll get a bill that I can live with if we don’t.”

— George W. Bush

350. “I simply said that I would do everything to help Taiwan to defend itself.”

— George W. Bush