George H. W. Bush Quotes

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The Cold War began with the division of Europe. It can only end when Europe is whole.

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Learning is good in and of itself...the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.

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Be strong,be kind,be generous of spirit, be understanding and let people know how grateful you are. Don't get even.Comfort the ones I've hurt and let down.Say your prayers and ask for Gods understanding and strength.Finish with a smile and some gusto and do what's' right and finish strong.

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The liberation of Kuwait has begun. In conjunction with the forces of our coalition partners, the United States has moved under the code name Operation Desert Storm to enforce the mandates of the United Nations Security Council.

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We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

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I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you.

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We sue each other too much and care for each other too little.

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There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after.

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Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.

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Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

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I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the Decade of the Brain. I call upon all public officials and the people of the United States to observe that decade with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.

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The potential of this nation is as boundless as the imagination and drive of the American people.... Quality management is not just a step. It must be a new style of working. Even a new style of thinking. The dedication to quality and excellence is more than good business; it's a way of life.

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Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.

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Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely. everyone who changes his or her life because of crime. have been denied a basic civil right.

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Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.

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No president can easily commit our sons and daughters to war.

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Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.

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Our nation is the enduring dream of every immigrant who ever set foot on these shores, and the millions still struggling to be free. This nation, this idea called America, was and always will be a new world -- our new world.

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To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits.

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Draconian limits on economic growth and on the use of the automobile should not be necessary in order to give Americans clean air at levels they are willing to pay for, but it will require significant Federal, State, and local leadership and innovative approaches from government and industry.

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My dog Millie knows more about foreign affairs than these two bozos.

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It means, it means, teaching troubled children through your present that there's no such, that there's such a thing as reliable love. Some would say it's soft and insufficiently tough to care about these things. But where is it written that we must act as if we do not care, as if we are not moved? Well I am moved. I want a kinder, and gentler nation.

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Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the identity of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.

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It just isn't going to work, and it's very interesting that the man who invested this type of what I call a voodoo economic policy...

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I have just repeated word for word the oath taken by George Washington 200 years ago, and the Bible on which I placed my hand is the Bible on which he placed his. It is right that the memory of Washington be with us today, not only because this is our Bicentennial Inauguration, but because Washington remains the Father of our Country. And he would, I think, be gladdened by this day; for today is the concrete expression of a stunning fact: our continuity these 200 years since our government began.
We meet on democracy's front porch, a good place to talk as neighbors and as friends. For this is a day when our nation is made whole, when our differences, for a moment, are suspended.

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The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred it replaces old prejudices with new one. It declares certain topics off-limits, certain expressions off-limits, even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.

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There are no maps to lead us where we are going, to this new world of our own making. As the world looks back to nine decades of war, of strife, of suspicion, let us also look forward—to a new century, and a new millennium, of peace, freedom and prosperity.

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We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family. To make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.

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Legitimacy [of governments] is not bought by force; it is earned by consensus of the people.

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The United States will continue its efforts to improve our understanding of climate change - to seek hard data, accurate models, and new ways to improve the science - and determine how best to meet these tremendous challenges.

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