Top 500 George W. Bush Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “I gave them a fair warning.”

— George W. Bush

352. “What’s all this whining about the environment? They’re always talking about ‘stop the clearcuts.’ I mean do the math people. If we were out of trees then we wouldn’t have any clearcuts to be complaining about now would we?”

— George W. Bush

353. “Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.”

— George W. Bush

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

— George W. Bush

355. “If you’ve got somebody in harm’s way, you want the president being – making advice, not – be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.”

— George W. Bush

356. “I just remember, all I’m doing is remembering when I was a kid I remember that they used to put out there in the old west, a wanted poster. It said: “Wanted, Dead or Alive.” All I want and America wants him brought to justice. That’s what we want.”

— George W. Bush

357. “The great tradition of America is one where people can worship the way they want to worship. And if they choose not to worship, they’re just as patriotic as your neighbor. That is an essential part of why we are a great nation. If you’re a Jew or a Christian or a Muslim, you’re equally American.”

— George W. Bush

358. “People love America. Sometimes they don’t like the decisions made by America, but I don’t think you want a president who tries to become popular and does the wrong thing.”

— George W. Bush

359. “The German asparagus are fabulous.”

— George W. Bush

360. “The legislature’s job is to write law. It’s the executive branch’s job to interpret law.”

— George W. Bush

361. “Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity.”

— George W. Bush

362. “I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.”

— George W. Bush

363. “I think we’re making progress. We understand where the power of this country lay. It lies in the hearts and souls of Americans. It must lay in our pocketbooks. It lies in the willingness for people to work hard.”

— George W. Bush

364. “American nation will not wait to be attacked again. We will defend our freedom and we will take the fight to the enemy.”

— George W. Bush

365. “I don’t think our troops ought to be used for what’s called nation building.”

— George W. Bush

366. “We believe in peace. We strongly believe in freedom. Where we see suffering we will help. And rather than try to offset a nation, why not join nations together to achieve kind of big objectives?”

— George W. Bush

367. “Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes!”

— George W. Bush

368. “The problem with golf is I have to deal with a humiliation factor.”

— George W. Bush

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

— George W. Bush

370. “The best way to defend America in this world we live in is to stay on the offense.”

— George W. Bush

371. “Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow citizens to take out their anger don’t represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind, and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior.”

— George W. Bush

372. “In the future history will be made only by us.”

— George W. Bush

373. “Each day millions of our citizens approach our Maker on bended knee, seeking His grace and giving thanks for the many blessings He bestows upon us.”

— George W. Bush

374. “One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people’s money to help prevent there to be a crisis.”

— George W. Bush

375. “The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope – an ideology of hate – excuse me – with an ideology of hope.”

— George W. Bush

376. “Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.”

— George W. Bush

377. “I’ve made it clear, Madam President, that the war against terrorism is not a war against Muslims, nor is it a war against Arabs. It’s a war against evil people who conduct crimes against innocent people.”

— George W. Bush

378. “It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children.”

— George W. Bush

379. “I think the fundamentals of the economy are finally in the electronic economy and they are strong are we have reason for great optimism.”

— George W. Bush

380. “Deeply impressed with the blessing which we enjoy, and of which we have much manifold proofs, my mind is irresistibly drawn to that Almighty Being, the great source source from whence they proceed and whom our most grateful acknowledgements are due.”

— George W. Bush

381. “There’s not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me.”

— George W. Bush

382. “Americans to bow our heads in humility before our Heavenly Father, a God who calls us not to judge our neighbors, but to love them, to ask His guidance upon our nation and its leaders in every level of government.”

— George W. Bush

383. “I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.”

— George W. Bush

384. “This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.”

— George W. Bush

385. “I worry about a culture that devalues life and believe as your president I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world.”

— George W. Bush

386. “The thing that’s important for me is to remember what’s the most important thing.”

— George W. Bush

387. “I’ve set a clear doctrine: America makes no distinction between the terrorists and the countries that harbor them. If you harbor a terrorist, you’re just as guilty as the terrorists, and you’re an enemy of the United States of America.”

— George W. Bush

388. “The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.”

— George W. Bush

389. “Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead.”

— George W. Bush

390. “If you find a neighbor in need, you’re responsible for serving that neighbor in need, you’re responsible for loving a neighbor just like you’d like to love yourself.”

— George W. Bush

391. “I talked to my little brother, Jeb – I haven’t told this to many people. But he’s the governor of – I shouldn’t call him my little brother – my brother, Jeb, the great Governor of Texas.”

— George W. Bush

392. “Our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. The outcome of this debate is important-and so is the way we conduct it. The same moral tradition that defines marriage also teaches that each individual has dignity and value in God’s sight.”

— George W. Bush

393. “The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.”

— George W. Bush

394. “I am a war president.”

— George W. Bush

395. “We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.”

— George W. Bush

396. “Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the librarians who staff them, add immeasurably to our quality of life.”

— George W. Bush

397. “I would still invade Iraq even if Iraq never existed.”

— George W. Bush

398. “We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.”

— George W. Bush

399. “I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese – that meant that they weren’t very effective.”

— George W. Bush

400. “Renewing the promise of America begins with upholding the dignity of human life.”

— George W. Bush