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Quotes by George W. Bush

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.
– George W. Bush
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.
– George W. Bush
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.
– George W. Bush
As Americans, we want peace -- we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.
– George W. Bush
I think we agree, the past is over.
– George W. Bush
Chew before you swallow.
– George W. Bush
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.
– George W. Bush
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
– George W. Bush
We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.
– George W. Bush
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
– George W. Bush
By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.
– George W. Bush
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.
– George W. Bush
The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.
– George W. Bush
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
– George W. Bush
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.
– George W. Bush
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
– George W. Bush
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.
– George W. Bush
In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.
– George W. Bush
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.
– George W. Bush
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
– George W. Bush
Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.
– George W. Bush
I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.
– George W. Bush
We will not waver we will not tire we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.
– George W. Bush
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.
– George W. Bush
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.
– George W. Bush
People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.
– George W. Bush
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
– George W. Bush
Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.
– George W. Bush
I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.
– George W. Bush
I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
– George W. Bush
I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.
– George W. Bush
I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
– George W. Bush
Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
– George W. Bush