578 Quotes by George H. W. Bush

had posited the very human question ... 'would you want a member of your family flying?' And the answer was no.

Every loss of life is terrible.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

He is a man of extraordinary accomplishment and ability,

Atheists are not Americans.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down,

The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.

He is most widely remembered in foreign-policy circles for being the United States' representative at the multiparty negotiation over the future of divided Germany. He persuaded the Bush administration to embrace German unity despite the qualms of allies and alarm in the former Soviet Union.