George H. W. Bush

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

I’m a conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

In the Soviet Union, it’s takes more courage to retreat than advance.

After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow…Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming…victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.

Africa shares with Asia a common background of colonialism, of exploitation, of discrimination, of oppression. At Bandung, African and Asian States dedicated themselves to the liberation of their two continents from foreign domination and affirmed the right of all nations to develop in their own way, free of any external interference.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.

The agents of [government] regard the wealth of their master as inexhaustible; are careless at what price they buy … at what price they sell.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

A ‘rogue state’ is a state that defies international laws and conventions, does not consider itself bound by the major treaties and conventions, World Court decisions-in fact, anything except the interests of its own leadership, the forces around the leadership that dominate policy.

Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

Like, say I can choose to buy a Toyota or a Chevrolet, but I can’t choose in a market system to get a subway system, that is a collective action. Market systems don’t allow that. So it has an enormous distorting effect on the choices that are available.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

Naturally, any conqueror is going to play one group against another. For example, I think about 90% of the forces that the British used to control India were Indians.

I think: the powers like to talk about ‘freedom’ in order to wash the population’s brains.

Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.