Top 500 George W. Bush Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.”

— George W. Bush

402. “You’ve just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.”

— George W. Bush

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

— George W. Bush

404. “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

405. “We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.”

— George W. Bush

406. “Anyway, I’m so thankful, and so gracious – I’m gracious that my brother Jeb is concerned about the hemisphere as well.”

— George W. Bush

407. “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

408. “I am mindful that we’re all sinners...”

— George W. Bush

409. “Anyone engaging in illegal financial transactions will be caught and persecuted.”

— George W. Bush

410. “I want to thank you for coming to the White House to give me an opportunity to urge you to work with these five senators and three congressmen, to work hard to get this trade promotion authority moving. The power that be, well most of the power that be, sits right here.”

— George W. Bush

411. “On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.”

— George W. Bush

412. “This way of life is worth defending.”

— George W. Bush

413. “It is important that social, political, and religious freedoms grow in China. A society which recognizes religious freedom is a society which will recognize political freedom as well.”

— George W. Bush

414. “You’ll hear people say it’s racist to test. Folks, it’s racist not to test. Because guess who gets shuffled through the system oftentimes? Children whose parents don’t speak English as a first language, inner-city kids. It’s so much easier to quit on somebody than to remediate.”

— George W. Bush

415. “It is one of the great goals of my administration to invigorate the spirit of involvement and citizenship. We will encourage faith-based and community programs without changing their mission.”

— George W. Bush

416. “We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We do not know-we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence, yet we can trust in them, placing our confidence in the loving God behind all of life, and all of history.”

— George W. Bush

417. “That’s a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century.”

— George W. Bush

418. “We need to have our medical records put on the IT.”

— George W. Bush

419. “We’re spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we’ve got 250 million years of coal?”

— George W. Bush

420. “America is a nation of prayer. It’s impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray.”

— George W. Bush

421. “We ought to be using nuclear power. It’s a renewable source of energy.”

— George W. Bush

422. “We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself.”

— George W. Bush

423. “All I can tell you is when the governor calls, I answer his phone.”

— George W. Bush

424. “It has sustained me in moments of success and in moments of disappointment. Without it, I’d be a different person. And without it, I doubt I’d be here today.”

— George W. Bush

425. “So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, congratulations.”

— George W. Bush

426. “On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.”

— George W. Bush

427. “We see in Islam a religion that traces its origins back to God’s call on Abraham. We share your belief in God’s justice, and your insistence on man’s moral responsibility. We thank the many Muslim nations who stand with us against terror. Nations that are often victims of terror, themselves.”

— George W. Bush

428. “My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt.”

— George W. Bush

429. “I have made education a top priority of this Administration because when we get it right, when every child learns, America will be a more hopeful place.”

— George W. Bush

430. “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

431. “Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.”

— George W. Bush

432. “For states that support terror, it is not enough that the consequences be costly-they must be devastating.”

— George W. Bush

433. “And this is an administration – we’re not into nation-building, we’re focused on justice. And we’re going to get justice. It’s going to take a while, probably. But I’m a patient man. Nothing will diminish my will and my determination – nothing.”

— George W. Bush

434. “Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.”

— George W. Bush

435. “The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.”

— George W. Bush

436. “One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.”

— George W. Bush

437. “In the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.”

— George W. Bush

438. “I really appreciate leaders from around the globe who have come to share in prayer with us today. It reminds me that the Almighty God is a God to everybody, every person.”

— George W. Bush

439. “Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilised world and will be confronted.”

— George W. Bush

440. “The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet.”

— George W. Bush

441. “The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat. It is to prevail.”

— George W. Bush

442. “It’s exciting; I don’t know whether I’m going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I’m ready for the job. And, if not, that’s just the way it goes.”

— George W. Bush

443. “In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold.”

— George W. Bush

444. “One has a stronger hand when there’s more people playing your same cards.”

— George W. Bush

445. “I’m asking Congress to pass my Zero Down Payment Initiative. We should remove the 3 percent down payment rule for first time home buyers with FHA-insured mortgages.”

— George W. Bush

446. “It’s essential that we do what’s right – not necessarily what appears to be immediately popular.”

— George W. Bush

447. “The biggest threat facing America is terrorists with weapons of mass destruction.”

— George W. Bush

448. “As a president, my job is not to promote a religion, my job is to call people to serve our country.”

— George W. Bush

449. “In terms of the economy, look, I inherited a recession, I am ending on a recession.”

— George W. Bush

450. “But we cannot allow weapons of mass destruction to fall into the hands of terrorists. I will not allow that to happen.”

— George W. Bush