Quotes from George W. Bush

I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge between church and state.

It's going to require numerous IRA agents.

I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways.

But I also made it clear to him [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.

Anyway, I'm so thankful, and so gracious - I'm gracious that my brother Jeb is concerned about the hemisphere as well.

Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself.

I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists.

So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, congratulations.

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?

He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to be.

First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.

I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

We ought to be using nuclear power. It's a renewable source of energy.

Obviously, nu-que-lar power is, uh, a renewable source of energy, and the less demand there is for non-renewable sources of energy, like fossil fuels, the better it off it is for the American people.

The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer - prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down. And I'm one of them.