J.M. Bush Quotes

You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.

The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us.

The ages between birth and age 5 are the foundation upon which successful lives are built.

Now the Taliban will pay a price.

It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children.

Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

It's the Afghan national army that went into Najaf and did the work there.

We have a female prime minister [Theresa May] here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she's wonderful. I think it's the best thing that's happened to us in a long time.

The best diplomacy starts with getting to know each other.

It's time to restore honor and dignity to the White House.

George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

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.

If you're a single mother with two children, which is the toughest job in America as far as I'm concerned, and you're working hard to put food on your family.

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

I'm taking a vow not to advise.

To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.'

Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.

A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.

My worst expectations never happened.

I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.

We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.

Government should do a few things, and do them right

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere

I am a war president.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

I think it’s important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons.

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.

I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.

I turned to books for comfort. (Former First Lady, Laura Bush)

It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

So many people commute in this country by car long enough distances to really cut into their income, their real income, that they would change their vote based on gas prices.

A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.

I think the fundamentals of the economy are finally in the electronic economy and they are strong are we have reason for great optimism.

Ronald Reagan was a great role model for Respublicans party, and I think for most people. But he was a fellow that the American public just intuitively loved so much, that he could always get credit.

I was always at about 70/30. About 70 percent of the people of my district appreciated me, and about 30 percent had quite another view of me.

Golf is a game of integrity. And golf is a game of forgiveness. I think the high standards of golf remind people of how lucky they are, or how fortunate they are, to be able to play the game.

I love comedy. I like to think that there's a sense of humor in some of my music - obviously not all of it.

There is a language barrier between vets and the civilian population. They speak different languages.

I think what is great is that if anything that I do is interesting to somebody else, then I really don't think it matters at all what I had originally intended.

Democrats don't want you to know what their tax plans are. They just don't want you to know.

It's important to listen to the words of the enemy if you're in war.

In this global war against extremists who use murder as a weapon, Iraq is now the central front.