Quotes from George W. Bush

People love America. Sometimes they don't like the decisions made by America, but I don't think you want a president who tries to become popular and does the wrong thing.

Let's get rid of all our subsidies together. Let's join hands as wealthy industrialised nations and say to the world, we're going to get rid of all our agricultural subsidies together.

There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country.

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time... Trust me.

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.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

I developed a reputation as a "hothead" because I got in the face of a lot of reporters and they thought I was just a hotheaded person. What they didn't understand was that I was motivated by love.

In spite of the fact that at times I would challenge parents authority. They provided unconditional love.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

Nothing can be further than the truth.

If you find a neighbor in need, you're responsible for serving that neighbor in need, you're responsible for loving a neighbor just like you'd like to love yourself.

I love free speech.

I love my brother, and I respect his service, i haven't been in Washington ... ever. I'm not part of Washington.

Being a father and trying to love my daughters with unconditional love - those were all good decisions.

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.

I think once you recognize the unconditional love of an Almighty, it tends to put joy in your heart. Which in my case, it did.

We are a people united by our love for freedom, even when we differ in our personal beliefs. In America, we are free to profess any faith we choose, or no faith at all.

This is a nation that loves our freedom, loves our country.

We'll continue to speak out in a respectful way; never challenging somebody's love for America when you criticize their strategies or their point of view.