George H. W. Bush

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

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

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

Old guys can still do fun things.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

A tiny leak can sink a ship.