578 Quotes by George H. W. Bush

...at the front end, to stop people from illegally entering our country, not at the back end, by reimbursing states after it has failed to enforce the border.[I]would allocate additional resources to enforcing the border, so states such as Texas and California would not have the huge expenses they currently do.

This aggression will not stand. With these words, George Bush committed the United States to the liberation of the oil-rich Kingdom of Kuwait, after it had been occupied by the Republic of Iraq in August of 1990.

The funny thing is everybody's failing now, in which case perhaps it's time to look at George Bush's relationship with George Bush.

more prior judicial experience than any Supreme Court nominee in more than 70 years.

We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!

We ought to increase legal immigration for our country's advantage. The high-tech world we are now dominating is dependent on educated folks, but we're short...of workers. It is to our nation's advantage to encourage high-powered, smart people to come into our country.

Mongolia and the United States are standing together as brothers in the cause of freedom.

And so, as they climb the ladder of achievement, I'd simply say, remember what Barbara Bush told those girls at Wellesley: "What happens in your house is more important than what happens in the White House."

The current administration inherited a military ready for the dangers and challenges facing our nation. The next president will inherit a military in decline.