Explore Quotes by George H. W. Bush

American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.

It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to receive the Nobel Prize. All those are important, of course. But maybe it's just that I'm 71 years old now. It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends. I would tell them that. Don't forget that. In your brilliance, don't turn your back on your friends. Don't think you're entitled to something, you're smarter than the next guy.

Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

Over the years, many Americans have made sacrifices in order to promote freedom and human rights around the globe: the heroic actions of our veterans, the lifesaving work of our scientists and physicians, and generosity of countless individuals who voluntarily give of their time, talents, and energy to help others-all have enriched humankind and affirmed the importance of our Judeo-Christian heritage in shaping our government and values.

There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States.

Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy.

There are things we can do to give us a little more attention.... I've got to look more frantic.

My first act as president is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads: Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and thank You for Your love. Accept our thanks for the peace that yields this day and the shared faith that makes its continuance likely. Make us strong to do Your work, willing to head and hear Your will, and write on our hearts these words: 'Use power to help people." For we know that 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. Help us to remember it Lord, Amen.

We have had triumphs, we have made mistakes, we have had sex.

International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all differences, but they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to peace as surely as water wears away a hard stone.

We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God.

Don't try to fine-tune somebody else's view.

The United States is the best and fairest and most decent nation on the face of the earth.

We know what works: freedom works. We know what's right: freedom is right. We know how to secure a more and just and prosperous life for man on earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.

I want a kinder, gentler nation.

Thousand points of light.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

We have ...drawn a line in the sand.

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 anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

I believe we should make use of what we know. We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised.