578 Quotes by George H. W. Bush

I'll tell you what PAYGO means, when you're a senator from Massachusetts, when you're a colleague of Ted Kennedy, pay go means: You pay, and he goes ahead and spends.

I just sit ther and do what I vowed I would never do - talk back to the television.

The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again and I'll say to them, read my lips, no new taxes.

I'll wait to see all the facts before I reach any conclusions about blame, but right now, we mourn for the loss of the life, two lives.

Not all Americans are living the American dream by a long shot. Many can't even imagine it. There are impoverished Americans, the poor and the homeless, the hungry and the hopeless, many unable to read and write. There are Americans gone astray, the kids dragged down by drugs, the shattered families, the teenage mothers struggling to cope. Then there are Americans uneasy, troubled and bewildered by the dizzying pace of change.

My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

I hope my fellow Texans will say a prayer for those fellow Texans in harm's way, ... Disaster comes like a thief in the night sometimes, and our hopes are that this storm, as ferocious as it may seem, will not affect human life in any way.

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.