578 Quotes by George H. W. Bush

You could tell I'm upbeat and I've got reason to be,

September the 11th changed the way I think.

Learning is good in and of itself...the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.

the Iraqi Election Commission has scheduled elections in January, and I would hope they'd go forward in January.

Never answer a hypothetical question. It gets you beyond where you want to be.

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

Some Americans want us to withdraw our troops, so we can escape the violence,

No generation can escape history.

The trust is going to come from performance,