George W. Bush
We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.Collection: Mistake
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.Collection: Greatness
Because marriage is a sacred institution and the foundation of society, it should not be redefined by activist judges. For the good of families, children and society, I support a constitutional amendment to protect the institution of marriage.Collection: Children
We see in Islam a religion that traces its origins back to God's call on Abraham. We share your belief in God's justice, and your insistence on man's moral responsibility. We thank the many Muslim nations who stand with us against terror. Nations that are often victims of terror, themselves.Collection: Inspiration
In my judgement, when the United States says there will be serious consequences, and if there isn't serious consequences, it creates adverse consequences.Collection: Judgement
One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor - the president - governor - president. Oops. Ex-governor. I went to Bethesda Naval Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched him-get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq - and at that same - right after I gave him the Purple Heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States - a Mexican citizen, now a United States citizen.Collection: Meaningful
In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force.Collection: Use
Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilised world and will be confronted.Collection: Mass Destruction
Combat forces of the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Poland, and other countries enforced the demands of the United Nations, ended the rule of Saddam Hussein - and the people of Iraq are free.Collection: Country
Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury.Collection: White
I take personal responsibility for everything I say.Collection: Responsibility
I understand I'm running against a person who is so anxious to become president, he will do whatever it takes.Collection: Running
I'm a patient man. And when I say I'm a patient man, I mean I'm a patient man.Collection: Mean
If Iraq fails to fully comply, the United States and other nations will disarm Saddam Hussein.Collection: Iraq
If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, [it] could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.Collection: Softball
People shouldn't read into venue locations someone's heart.Collection: Heart
The regime must allow immediate and unrestricted access to every site, every document, and every person identified by inspectors. Iraq can be certain that the old game of cheat-and-retreat tolerated at other times will no longer be tolerated.Collection: Games
The resolution approved today presents the Iraqi regime with a test - a final test.Collection: Finals
We concluded that tomorrow is a moment of truth for the world. Many nations have voiced a commitment to peace and security, and now they must demonstrate that commitment to peace and security in the only effective way: by supporting the immediate and unconditional disarmament of Saddam Hussein.Collection: Commitment
We're coming with a mighty force to end the reign of your oppressors. We are coming to bring you food and medicine and a better life. And we are coming and we will not stop, we will not relent until your country is free.Collection: Country
It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.Collection: Adversity
If our commanders on the ground say we need more troops, I will send them. But our commanders tell me they have the number of troops they need to do their job. Sending more Americans would undermine our strategy of encouraging Iraqis to take the lead in this fight. And sending more Americans would suggest that we intend to stay forever, when we are, in fact, working for the day when Iraq can defend itself and we can leave.Collection: Jobs
I encourage all Americans to express admiration and appreciation to fathers.Collection: Appreciation
I don't understand how poor people think.Collection: Thinking
It used to be, people were afraid to talk about Social Security. Now, I think people should be afraid not to talk about Social Security and start coming up with some solutions.Collection: Thinking
[T]he people of Iraq have spoken to the world, and the world is hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the Middle East.Collection: Iraq
When we make a pledge, we mean it. We keep our word, and what we begin, we will finish.Collection: Mean
I worry about a culture that devalues life and believe as your president I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world.Collection: Believe
My God, the man is a fascist - a fascist, I tell you.Collection: Men
If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us.Collection: Arrogant
For most of the world, there's no greater symbol of America than the Statue of Liberty. It has been an inspiration to generations of immigrants. One of these immigrants was a poet-writer named Ameen Rihani. Gazing at her lamp held high, he wondered whether her sister might be erected in the lands of his Arab forefathers. Here is how he put it: "When will you turn your face toward the East, oh Liberty?"Collection: Inspiration
The press in America has never been stronger and never been freer and never been more vibrant, sometimes to my chagrin, and a lot of times to my delight.Collection: America
I've been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I've failed miserably. They get to express their opinions sometimes in the form of news.Collection: Trying
It is human choices that move events.Collection: Moving
Evil knows no holiday.Collection: Holiday
The worst of Nature brings out the best in our fellow human beings.Collection: Worst
I was taught that we should look after the beam in our own eye before searching for the mote in someone else's.Collection: Eye
I'm not a textbook player. I'm a gut player.Collection: Player
I don't watch the nightly newscasts on TV . . . nor do I watch the endless hours of people giving their opinion about things. I don't read the editorial pages; I don't read the columnists. It can be a frustrating experience to pay attention to somebody's false opinion.Collection: People
You cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative.Collection: Revenge
We're not into nation-building. We're into justice.Collection: Justice
I'm absolutely confident that everybody that's been put to death is two things: One, they're guilty of the crime charged, and, secondly, they had full access to our courts, both state and federal.Collection: Two
Terrorists and their allies believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Bill of Rights and every charter of liberty ever written are lies to be burned and destroyed and forgotten.Collection: Lying
I said you were a man of peace. I want you to know I took immense crap for that.Collection: Men
I believe in grace because I've seen it and peace because I've felt it and forgiveness because I've needed it.Collection: Believe
We honor the heritage of all who come here, no matter where they come from, because we trust in our country's genius for making us all Americans - one nation under God.Collection: Country
This is a decent and honorable country - and resilient, too. We've been through a lot together. We've met challenges and faced dangers, and we know that more lie ahead. Yet we can go forward with confidence - because the State of our Union is strong, our cause in the world is right, and tonight that cause goes on. God bless.Collection: Country
Americans do not turn away from duties because they are hard.Collection: Duty
We're going to get [bin Laden]. Dead or alive, it doesn't matter to me.Collection: Alive