Quotes from George H. W. Bush

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

Every loss of life is terrible.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

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

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

Old guys can still do fun things.

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It's to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

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

The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.

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.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

No, I'm not anguished and tormented.

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't.