George W. Bush
This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them.Collection: Humor
That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired.Collection: Humor
Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where I'm coming from.Collection: Humor
I'm the decider, and I decide what is best.Collection: Funny Bush
I don't feel like I've got all that much too important to say on the kind of big national issues.Collection: Issues
I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.Collection: Nests
It's not the governor’s role to decide who goes to heaven. That’s God’s role.Collection: Believe
One of the interesting initiatives we've taken in Washington, D.C., is we've got these vampire-busting devices. A vampire is a-a cell deal you can plug in the wall to charge your cell phone.Collection: Wall
It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade, there's more commerce.Collection: Humor
As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.Collection: School
After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.Collection: Humor
People say, 'How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?' You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you.Collection: Children
There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's like.Collection: Mother
The world is more peaceful and more free under my leadership.Collection: Peaceful
The will of the United States can be shaken by suiciders and suiciders who are willing to drive up to a Red Cross center, a center of international help and aid and comfort, and just kill. [...] The strategy remains the same. The tactics to respond to more suiciders driving cars will alter on the ground.Collection: Car
There's a lot of things that there's misconceptions. Evidently it's a misconceptions that Americans believe that Muslims are terrorists.Collection: Believe
See, one of the interesting things in the Oval Office - I love to bring people into the Oval Office - right around the corner from here - and say, this is where I office, but I want you to know the office is always bigger than the person.Collection: People
I want to remind you right quick what this country has been through, and the challenges this economy had faced over the last three years. First, we went through a recession. That means we were going backwards.Collection: Country
Big Texas (Nolan Ryan) is here. The reason I like to keep Nolan around is he is a reminder that when we got done with the Sammy Sosa trade, there was still some talent on the Rangers.Collection: Texas
I never dreamed about being President, I wanted to be Willie Mays.Collection: President
The great thing about America is everybody should vote.Collection: Humor
This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the tableCollection: Iran
Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.Collection: Mass Destruction
It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.Collection: Running
I would still invade Iraq even if Iraq never existedCollection: Iraq
We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th.Collection: Iraq
We will make sure our troops have all that is necessary to complete their missions. That's why I went to the Congress last September and proposed fundamental - supplemental funding, which is money for armor and body parts and ammunition and fuel...Collection: Troops
Golf is a game of integrity. And golf is a game of forgiveness. I think the high standards of golf remind people of how lucky they are, or how fortunate they are, to be able to play the game.Collection: Integrity
As the president, you're pretty much in a bubble. And golf is a good way to get out of the bubble.Collection: Golf
I don't know where [Osama bin Laden] is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him, to be honest with you. I'm more worried about making sure that our soldiers are well supplied, that the strategy is clear, that the coalition is strong.Collection: Strong
I fully understand some people don't believe it's possible for freedom and democracy to overcome this ideology of hatred. I understand that. I just happen to believe it is possible. And I believe it will happen.Collection: Believe
The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.Collection: Vision
And one of the challenges, of course, is to convince people that Muslims would like to be free, that there's other people other than people in Britain and America that would like to be free in the world.Collection: Britain And America
There's this kind of almost - kind of a weird kind of elitism that says well maybe - maybe certain people in certain parts of the world shouldn't be free; maybe it's best just to let them sit in these tyrannical societies. And our foreign policy rejects that concept. And we don't accept it. And so we're working.Collection: People
I pray daily, and I pray in all kinds of places. I mean, I pray in bed, I pray in the Oval Office. I pray a lot. And just different as the spirit moves me. And faith is an integral part of my life.Collection: Moving
In my judgment, the only way to deal with terrorists is to stay on the offensive, is to find them and bring them to justice before they hurt us again.Collection: Hurt
German people are essentially pacifists. Many still remember the experience of World War II. And they may not have seen Saddam Hussein as evil a person as a lot of other people have.Collection: War
I don't mind people trying to pick apart my policies, and that's fine and that's fair game. But, you know, I don't think we're serving our nation well by allowing the discourse to become so uncivil that people use words that they shouldn't be using.Collection: Thinking
I've got a job to do, and I'm going to be judged upon whether or not the world is more peaceful and whether or not America is more prosperous and more compassionate.Collection: Jobs
We don't talk about sources and methods. Don't talk about ongoing intelligence operations. I know there's speculation. But it's important for the American people to understand that I will use my powers to protect us, and I will do so under the law, and that's important for our citizens to understand.Collection: Law
Definition of victory which is really an important thing for the American people to understand is that we have an ally in the war on terror, that democracy is able to sustain itself and defend itself, and the Iraqi people feel that the security forces that we've trained up are capable of defending themselves against the violent.Collection: War
Wars are fought on objectives, not on timetable, and that's why I've been so insistent upon not allowing ourselves to have policy driven by time table, but by objective.Collection: War
I think a lot of the national Democrats believe that, you know, Iraq is a distraction and not part of the War on Terror. They've said so. And I strongly disagree.Collection: War
Usama bin Laden feels like Iraq is a part of this War on Terror. He has made it clear that he would like for us to leave before Iraq can defend itself or govern itself and sustain itself, so that he could have a safe haven from which to launch further attacks, a safe haven from which to topple modern governments, a safe haven from which to, you know, be able to get a hold of oil resources.Collection: War
You can imagine these radicals getting a hold of a country where they're able to pull oil off the market to run the price of oil up to extract concession.Collection: Country
I feel a sense of obligation to our troops and their families because of the decisions that I made. So I'm involved with veterans.Collection: Decision
Reinvention means you're kind of re-creating somebody. Well, I'm the same person, in terms of values. My priorities - my faith, my family, my friends, the values of personal responsibility and universality of freedom, and "to whom much is given, much is required" - haven't changed [since presidency].Collection: Mean
"Statesman" presumes I'm out there giving opinions all the time about things, and no, I'm not interested in opining on a lot of subjects.Collection: Giving