George Herbert Walker Bush Quotes

I don’t know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.

I have opinions of my own – strong opinions – but I don’t always agree with them.

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn’t know where they’re going.

People say I’m indecisive, but I don’t know about that. (Tongue-in-cheek remark, April 1, 1989)

Now, like, I’m President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know? – I bet if they did, I hope I would say, ‘Hey, get lost. We don’t want any of that.’ (speaking to a group of students about drug abuse)

I’m for Mr. Reagan – blindly.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

No, I don’t know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.

I will never apologize for the United States. I don’t care what the facts are. (3 July 1988)

I will never apologize for the United States of America – I don’t care what the facts are. (In response to the U.S. Navy warship Vincennes shooting down an Iranian commercial airliner on July 3, 1988. All 290 civilian people in the aircraft were killed. The plane was on a routine flight in a commercial […]