578 Quotes by George H. W. Bush

good start on a broad and important agenda.

In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.

If he's got a problem with what went on in the past, he ought to explain what it is. I think the vice president ought to speak out on it.

No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.

We're in a fight for our principles and our first responsibility is to live by them.

Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.

I appreciate the hard campaign that John McCain waged. He ran a good race. He highlighted the need for reform, and I appreciate the ideas that he brought forth in the campaign,