578 Quotes by George H. W. Bush

If you believe that there's a being superior to yourself and that will guide you, strengthen you that helps a lot but, you know, you just have to stay the course. You just got to stay in there. You cannot be waffling or taking a poll to see what people think. You have to do what you think is right.

And if you're interested in the quality of education and you're paying attention to what you hear at Laclede, why don't you volunteer? Why don't you mentor a child how to read?

No chairman has been more deeply involved in more critical decisions involving our country and our security and certainly involving the men and women in uniform,

I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions, You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried.

It is possible to tell things by a handshake. I like the "looking in the eye" syndrome. It conveys interest. I like the firm, though not bone crushing shake. The bone crusher is trying too hard to "macho it." The clammy or diffident handshake — fairly or unfairly — get me off to a bad start with a person.

The main priority is to restore and maintain law and order and assist in recover and evacuation efforts.

positive day for the Iraqis and as well for world peace.

There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after.

I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the Decade of the Brain. I call upon all public officials and the people of the United States to observe that decade with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.