Quotes from George W. Bush

It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offense, more people want to hurt us. We are on the offense because people do want to hurt us.

If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.

I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking.

You might want to comment on that, Honorable.

I kind of like to look at the ranch on Google, reminds me of where I want to be sometimes.

So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression.

I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an almighty and if you choose not to.

I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement.

What ends up happening is people form images and the image they form is, in some ways, what they want it to be. The idea of trying to correct the image is something I'm not interested in doing.

The cornerstone of our policy in that part of the world is to help democracies. Lebanon's a democracy. We want the Siniora government to succeed.

I'm forever a former president and I understand that, but at this point in my post-presidency, I don't want to be involved with politics.

I believe that people want to be free. And that we face an enemy that murders innocent people to try to shake our psychology to get us to leave.

The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.

This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

Our war on terror begins with al-Qaida, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.

The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war.

Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

I think war is a dangerous place.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.