Top 500 George W. Bush Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself.”

— George W. Bush

402. “I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues.”

— George W. Bush

403. “We’re coming with a mighty force to end the reign of your oppressors. We are coming to bring you food and medicine and a better life. And we are coming and we will not stop, we will not relent until your country is free.”

— George W. Bush

404. “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

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

— George W. Bush

406. “For decades, free nations tolerated oppression in the Middle East for the sake of stability. In practice, this approach brought little stability and much oppression, so I have changed this policy.”

— George W. Bush

407. “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

408. “For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.”

— George W. Bush

409. “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

410. “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

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

— George W. Bush

412. “And this is my solemn pledge: I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity. I know this is in our reach because we are guided by a power larger than ourselves who creates us equal in His image.”

— George W. Bush

413. “The law I sign today directs new funds and new focus to the task of collecting vital intelligence on terrorist threats and on weapons of mass production.”

— George W. Bush

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

— George W. Bush

415. “I confirmed to the prime minister that we appreciate our friendship.”

— George W. Bush

416. “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

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

— George W. Bush

418. “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

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

— George W. Bush

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

— George W. Bush

421. “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

422. “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

423. “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

424. “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

425. “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

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

— George W. Bush

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

— George W. Bush

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

— George W. Bush

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

— George W. Bush

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

— George W. Bush

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

— George W. Bush

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

— George W. Bush

433. “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

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

— 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. “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

438. “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

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

— George W. Bush

440. “The United States of America stands for the ability for people to worship freely, the ability for people to vote and to express their opinion freely is something we hold dear.”

— George W. Bush

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

— George W. Bush

442. “Reading is the basics for all learning.”

— George W. Bush

443. “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

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

— George W. Bush

445. “When an 18-year-old Palestinian girl is persuaded to blow herself up, and in doing so she kills a 17-year-old Israeli girl, we are watching the future itself die!”

— George W. Bush

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

— George W. Bush

447. “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

448. “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

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

— George W. Bush

450. “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