We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. – George H. W. Bush
I have a form of Parkinson’s disease, which I don’t like. My legs don’t move when my brain tells them to. It’s very frustrating. – George H. W. Bush
As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life. – George H. W. Bush
History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right. – George H. W. Bush
Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering. – George H. W. Bush
The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs. – George H. W. Bush
I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it. – George H. W. Bush
I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war. – George H. W. Bush
I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it. – George H. W. Bush
You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff. – George H. W. Bush
For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now. – George H. W. Bush
I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‘gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.’ Nope. – George H. W. Bush
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. – George H. W. Bush
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. – George H. W. Bush