- George H.W. Bush to journalist Sarah McClendon, December 1992, in response to the question, "What will the people do if they ever find out the truth about Iraq-gate and Iran contra
- Whose life would be on my hands as the commander-in-chief because I, unilaterally, went beyond the international law, went beyond the stated mission, and said we're going to show our macho? We're going into Baghdad. We're going to be an occupying power — America in an Arab land — with no allies at our side. It would have been disastrous. We don't gain the size of our victory by how many innocent kids running away — even though they're bad guys — that we can slaughter. ... We're American soldiers; we don't do business that way
- G.H.W Bush
- A statement to a reunion of Gulf War veterans (February 28, 1999) as quoted in "Bush tells Gulf vets why Hussein left in Baghdad" by S.H. Kelly, Pentagram March 3, 1999
Ever since i was 6 years old, the Bush and Clinton families have fought each other for the rule of the free world
This age was ushered in by Bush I, a former CIA Director, who was elected Vice President to a cowboy actor President with a degenerating brain and severe memory loss
"You cannot be president of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial and the Civil War and all that stuff. You can't be. And we are blessed. So don't feel sorry for — don't cry for me, Argentina. Message: I care." — G.H.W. Bush ... speaking to employees of an insurance company during the 1992 New Hampshire primary
"I'm for Mr. Reagan, blindly." – G.H.W. Bush in 1984
This age was ushered in by Bush I, a former CIA Director, who was elected Vice President to a cowboy actor President with a degenerating brain and severe memory loss
"You cannot be president of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial and the Civil War and all that stuff. You can't be. And we are blessed. So don't feel sorry for — don't cry for me, Argentina. Message: I care." — G.H.W. Bush ... speaking to employees of an insurance company during the 1992 New Hampshire primary
"I'm for Mr. Reagan, blindly." – G.H.W. Bush in 1984
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
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, news conference, Aug. 27, 1987
Boy, they were big on crematoriums, weren't they