George W. Bush
Listen, I know of nobody -- I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action. And this investigation is a good thing.Collection: Information
If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.Collection: Administration
If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being -- making advice, not -- be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.Collection: Military
You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.Collection: Political
What I'm telling you is there's too many junk lawsuits suing too many doctors.Collection: Doctors
This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all.Collection: Exit
The only way we can win is if we leave before the job is...done.Collection: Jobs
I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, 'Mr. President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'Collection: Smart
All I can tell you is when the governor calls, I answer his phone.Collection: Phones
All of us in America want there to be fairness when it comes to justice.Collection: America
The best thing about my family is my wife. She is a great first lady. I know that sounds not very objective, but that's how I feel. And she's also patient. Putting up with me requires a lot of patience.Collection: Wife
Anybody who is in a position to serve this country ought to understand the consequences of words.Collection: Country
And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table.Collection: War
One has a stronger hand when there's more people playing your same cards.Collection: Hands
I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?Collection: Thinking
We shouldn't fear a world that is more interacted.Collection: World
Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me.Collection: Mistake
I would guess, I would surmise that some of the more spectacular bombings are done by al Qaeda suiciders.Collection: Done
The Patriot Act has increased the flow of information within our government, and it has helped break up terror cells in the United States of America and the United States Congress was right to renew the terrorist act. The Patriot Act.Collection: Government
Trying to stop suiciders -- which we're doing a pretty good job of on occasion -- is difficult to do. And what the Iraqis are going to have to eventually do is convince those who are conducting suiciders who are not inspired by Al Qaeda, for example, to realize there's a peaceful tomorrow.Collection: Jobs
The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.Collection: War
I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is - my point is, there's a strong will for democracy.Collection: Strong
I aim to be a competitive nation.Collection: Aim
I strongly believe what we're doing is the right thing. If I didn't believe it -- I'm going to repeat what I said before -- I'd pull the troops out, nor if I believed we could win, I would pull the troops out.Collection: Believe
One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.Collection: Education
We don't want Washington Democrats running the House of Representatives.Collection: Running
The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well.Collection: Army
Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have left undone. We are limited only by what we are willing to do.Collection: Learning
Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It's also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend-even a friend whose name it never knew.Collection: Memories
I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.Collection: Thinking
My faith plays a big part in my life. And when I was answering that question what I was really saying to the person was that I pray a lot. And I do. And my faith is a very, it's very personal. I pray for strength. I pray for wisdom. I pray for our troops in harm's way. I pray for my family. I pray for my little girls.Collection: Girl
Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.Collection: Education
I like my buddies from west Texas. I liked them when I was young; I liked them when I was middle-age; I liked them before I was President; and I like them during President; and I like them after President.Collection: Texas
If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.Collection: Taxes
Like other forms of stealing, identity theft leaves the victim poor and feeling terribly violated.Collection: Feelings
This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.Collection: People
In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.Collection: Men
Our two nations both faced great challenges when they were founded, and our two nations have both relied on the same principles to help us succeed. We've built strong democracies to protect the freedoms given to us by an Almighty God. We've welcomed immigrants, who have helped us thrive. We've built prosperous economies by rewarding innovation and risk-taking and trade. And we've built an enduring alliance to confront terrorists and tyrants.Collection: Strong
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.Collection: Goal
Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord.Collection: Trying
Some of the scientists, I believe, haven't they been changing their opinion a little bit on global warming? There's a lot of differing opinions and before we react I think it's best to have the full accounting, full understanding of what's taking place.Collection: Believe
Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.Collection: Order
I would never use God to promote foreign policy decisions. I recognize that in the eyes of an almighty, I am a lowly sinner, and I ask for strength and wisdom and I pray for calmness when the seas are storming, and I pray for others.Collection: Eye
As a president, my job is not to promote a religion, my job is to call people to serve our country.Collection: Country
Freedom is on the march in this world. I believe everybody in the Middle East desires to live in freedom. I believe women in the Middle East want to live in a free society. I believe mothers and fathers want to raise their children in a free and peaceful world. I believe all these things, because freedom is not America's gift to the world, freedom is the almighty God's gift to each man and woman in this world.Collection: Faith
This is a war between good and evil. And we have made it clear to the world that we will stand strong on the side of good, and we expect other nations to join us. This is not a war between our world and their world. It is a war to save the world.Collection: Peace
I call my philosophy and approach compassionate conservatism. It is compassionate to actively help our fellow citizens in need. It is conservative to insist on responsibility and results. And with this hopeful approach, we will make a real difference in people's lives.Collection: Philosophy
America needs a military where our breast and brightest are proud to serve.Collection: Military
I think the platform ought to be pro-life. It is the basis of the Republican Party. People have got to understand that abortion is not a contraceptive.Collection: Party