George W. Bush Quotes

• I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in History

  Tags in American, Troops

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Economic, Government

• I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves, Peace

• 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.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Presidents, Successor, Critics

• I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in President, Criticize, Successor

• I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Written, Book

• I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Leadership, Vision

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

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Market, Principles

• I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, World

• I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, President, Protection

• I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in God

  Tags in Self, Believe

• I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation’s interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation’s interest.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Transformation, Liberty

• I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Believe, Marriage

• I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Myself, Preserving, Executive

•  Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Service

  Tags in American, Men And Women

• Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in America

  Tags in Great, Tragedy

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United States, Government, Wealth

• Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom

• Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peaceful, Nations

• For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible – and no one can now doubt the word of America.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in America

  Tags in Effective, Diplomacy

George W. Bush (146)

Birth:	6th July, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	President

About

George Walker Bush was born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, he worked in oil businesses. He is the second president to have been the son of a former president, the first having been John Quincy Adams. He is currently a public speaker, and has written a memoir, Decision Points. His presidential library was opened in 2013.

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