George W. Bush
You know, one day you're being briefed on world affairs and asked to make decisions, and the next, you're in Crawford, Texas ... and the biggest decision is when do you go mountain bike riding.Collection: Texas
I want to be the peace president.Collection: President
We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.Collection: Defense
My job is to make sure that, as President, people understand that in this country you can worship any way you choose. And I'll take that a step further. You can be a patriot if you don't believe in the Almighty. You can honor your country and be as patriotic as your neighbor.Collection: Country
We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.Collection: Country
We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that.Collection: Men
Men are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money they don't generate a lot of interest.Collection: Funny
The North Korean regime remains one of the world's leading proliferator of missile technology, including transfers to Iran and Syria. The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action.Collection: Technology
It's your money. You paid for it.Collection: Funny
If you haven't doubted, you probably haven't thought very hard about what you believe.Collection: Believe
Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy.Collection: Guessing
[Saddam] built up a massive war machine while neglecting the basic needs of his own people.Collection: War
So I don't worry about, and people shouldn't worry about a draft I think we're in good shape, I really do. And, if not, we'll - I'll address the nation. But I don't see any need to right now.Collection: Thinking
God told me to smite Osama bin Laden, so I invaded Afghanistan. Then He told me to smite Saddam Hussein, so I invaded Iraq. Now He wants me to work on the Middle East problem.Collection: Iraq
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.Collection: Hope
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice... Our finest moments have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.Collection: Land
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.Collection: Names
These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion.Collection: Humor
To give law enforcement the additional tools it needs to track down terror here at home.Collection: Home
I encourage employers to permit their workers time off during the lunch hour to attend the noontime services to pray for our land.Collection: Humor
Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror, Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders, Saudi Arabia is making raids and arrests, Libya is dismantling its weapons programs, the army of a free Iraq is fighting for freedom, and more than three-quarters of al-Qaida's key members and associates have been detained or killed. We have led, many have joined, and America and the world are safer.Collection: Army
A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.Collection: Humor
Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is-I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president.Collection: Humor
Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about.Collection: Humor
I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it.Collection: People
I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.Collection: Long
Of course we're after Iraq.. eh.. Saddam Hussein.. I mean bin Laden.Collection: Mean
Uhh Gosh, I.. don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those, uhh, exaggerations.Collection: Thinking
It's important to reach out to moderate Arab nations, like Jordan and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.Collection: Kuwait
We will be changing the regime of Iraq for the good of the iraqi people.Collection: Iraq
Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence.Collection: Definitions
There are jobs Americans arent doing. ... If youve got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what Im talking about.Collection: Jobs
The question is who ought to make that decision, the Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear. I'm a commander guy.Collection: Guy
There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible.Collection: Iraq
Thats why we are inconveniencing air traffickers, to make sure nobody is carrying weapons on airplanes.Collection: Airplane
The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope - an ideology of hate - excuse me - with an ideology of hope.Collection: Hate
Theres a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say.Collection: Artist
Some call this civil war; others call it emergency -- I call it pure evil.Collection: War
I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.Collection: Thinking
Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live.Collection: Government
A good marriage is really good after serving together in Washington, D.C.Collection: Together
Iraq is a very important part of securing the homeland, and its a very important part of helping change the Middle East into a part of the world that will not serve as a threat to the civilized world, to people like - or to the developed world, to people like - in the United States.Collection: Iraq
The solution to Iraq - an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself - is more than a military mission. Precisely the reason why I sent more troops into Baghdad.Collection: Military
I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.Collection: President
The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty ... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.Collection: Believe
On 9-11, we discovered that we cannot escape from the world. To me personally, this was a life-changing experience, and I realized, as did all Americans, in a way that is impossible to describe, that we were not protected by the two oceans. It was necessary to eliminate threats before they showed up on our doorstep. I agree that we should not be getting caught up in far away wars. But I believe Iraq was central to our war on terrorism.Collection: War
No president ever puts American lives at risk without a terrible sense of responsibility. And no American ever hears or reads of a soldier’s death without saying a silent prayer for the dead hero or thinking of the grief of the family and friends. Every young man or woman who dies represents a life with its own dreams and plans, extinguished so suddenly. But all said and done, it is our responsibility to see that (1) we never put our troops in situations where they are subject to unnecessary risk, and (2) we give them all our support at all times.Collection: Dream
It is a tough choice. In war, people die. But when we refuse to confront the enemy, we will face the enemy in New York and Washington, as we did on 9-11. As for responsiblity, of course we stand by our decision to go to war on Iraq. President Kennedy said that friend and foe alike should know where America stands.Collection: War
The most important need is to have a steady hand at the wheel, one which does not deviate from its purpose depending on which way the wind blows. The task of keeping America safe and secure in an uncertain world falls heavily on the president.Collection: Fall