George H. W. Bush Quotes
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Debates, I hate.
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I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.
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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.
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Old guys can still do fun things.
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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.
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You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.
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The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.
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Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.
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One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.
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We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.
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Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
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We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.
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I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.
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Every loss of life is terrible.
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Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
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We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.
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I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that.
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It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.
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For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.
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A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
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It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
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Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.
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It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.
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I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.