George H.
W. Bush 41st President 1989-1993
Presidential quotes from Richard M. Nixon to George W. Bush
George H.
W. Bush 41st President 1989-1993
"I can't think of any existing law that's in force that wasn't before."
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them."
"Boy, they were big on crematoriums, weren't they?"
George Bush, (Comment made on tour of
Auschwitz)
"I will never apologize for the United States of
America - I don't care what the facts are."
George Bush, Newsweek, (Commenting on
the shooting down of an Iranian airliner by the U.S. warship Vincennes, killing
290 passengers.), August 15, 1989
"I’m not what you call your basic intellectual."
"Flag burning is wrong. I believe the importance of this issue compels
me to call for a constitutional amendment."
"This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation
in the pursuit of security is no virtue."
"We’re enjoying sluggish times and not enjoying them very much."
"I have opinions of my own—strong opinions—but I don’t always
agree with them."
"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."
"For more than forty years, America and its allies held communism in
check and insured that democracy would continue to exist. And today, with
communism crumbling, our aim must be to insure democracy’s advance, to take
the lead in forging peace and freedoms best hope, a great and growing
commonwealth of free nations."
"Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time
but doesn’t know where they are going." (Speech accepting the nomination
for president, 1988)
"If anyone tells you that America’s best days are behind her,
they’re looking the wrong way."
"A government that remembers that the people are its master is a good
and needed thing."
"America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral
principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the
face of the nation and gentler the face of the world."
"Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors."
"When Bill Clinton blows his taxphone, America will be singing the blues."
I wonder if the "Liberal Media" ever made Poppa Bush eat those words above?