George H. W. Bush Short Quotes

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What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

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Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.

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This will not stand, this aggression against, uh, Kuwait.

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

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

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We're enjoying sluggish times, and not enjoying them very much.

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Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.

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

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

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It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.

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We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

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By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.

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I'm proud to be his partner. We've had triumphs, we've made mistakes, we've had sex.

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

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Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.

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The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

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Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

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My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

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We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

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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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Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

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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 believe we should make use of what we know. We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised.

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The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

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This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.

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There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.

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Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.

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The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

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And now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order.

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