Famous Quotes & Sayings

George H. W. Bush

When you hear them say, 'We're going to repeal the Bush tax cuts,' that means tax increase. That's what that is, ... 'I'm gonna raise your taxes' is what they're saying.

Steve Schmidt

There are a great many groups that made a decision a long time ago to oppose whomever President Bush put forward for the Supreme Court.

Steve Schmidt

There are a great many groups that determined they would oppose whomever President Bush nominated. The only open question was which day they would do it.

We-Lyn Shaw, Norgie Hester and myself-went to see the inauguration the year George Bush was sworn in as president in 1989,

Howard Dean

While he is in Boise, Vice President Cheney ought to explain why the Bush administration sold out the Idaho sugar industry,

With one decision, Bush has made a mockery of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the likelihood that any other country in the world will take it seriously.

We've been clear with the Israelis on their obligations under the 'road map' and President Bush has specifically called on the Israelis not only to remove illegal outposts but to stop settlement expansion.

Adam McKay

If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?

Bernie Sanders

At the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the Postal Service to prefund, over a 10-year period, 75 years of future retiree health benefits.

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended.

We all love George Bush and follow George Bush, but everyone is looking for who will be next.

We all know that noble cause for war that Bush talks about has changed several times.

upset with mistakes Bush made, upset with his behavior.

John Yarmuth

The reason I ran in 2006 was to make my district one of the fifteen that at the time it would have taken to switch the control of the House and stop the Bush agenda. The second priority I had was to provide health care for everybody. And the third was to do public financing of campaigns.

Kweisi Mfume

Two days ago, President Bush made his 30th visit to Pennsylvania. ... Yet he couldn't come to Pennsylvania to speak to us,

Bob Dole

We've got a lot of good people here who feel strongly about Governor Bush and about his winning,

To a greater extent than the Bush administration, the media was responsible for creating the fantasy that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States,

Christiane Amanpour

Why have we given George W. Bush such an easy ride when-until now, that is-when actually his qualifications are questionable?

Harry Reid

Why didn't President Bush immediately return to Washington from his vacation?

Tony Perkins

This time, President Bush gave us a nominee who is Rehnquist-like, ... Next time, we expect the president to nominate someone in the mold of a Justice (Antonin) Scalia or (Clarence) Thomas.

Hillary Clinton

I have known several presidents quite well, including my husband, and I worked closely with President George W. Bush and the White House then after 9/11, and I served with President Obama. I disagree with all three of those presidents on certain things.

We personify in Bush ... everything that we don't want.

Jeff Greenfield

When Ronald Reagan chose George H.W. Bush in 1980, it was a clear signal that he was running an inclusive campaign; that he welcomed the moderate and even liberal wings of the GOP - there was a liberal wing back then - into his campaign.

When President Bush arrives in Mar del Plata he will find himself at odds with some of his counterparts who see the future differently,

While President Bush would like for Americans to look at the economy through rose-colored glasses, recent news reports tell the real truth.

While President Bush maintains an unwavering commitment to rebuilding the Gulf Coast, Democrats remain just as committed to political posturing for short-term gain.

When Western residents wake up to the fact that the Bush administration has a ... scheme to divest the public of its lands, I don't think people are going to like that very much.

We are pleased that President Bush recognizes the need to move the country toward an energy future that is less reliant on unreliable and increasingly costly foreign sources of oil.

Linwood Barclay

We're half an hour from Toronto, which offers everything you could want from a city, and a couple of hours from beautiful vacation country. We have it all here, plus George W. Bush is not our president.

Bobby Scott

The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before.

P. J. O'Rourke

President Bush said that if illegal immigrants want citizenship, they'd have to do three things: pay taxes, hold meaningful jobs, and learn English. Bush doesn't meet those qualifications.

Alex Gibney

The whole macho thing has to be reexamined. Because in my view, the Bush administration was weak, not strong. To engage in a policy of torture is a weak policy. Because ultimately, it encourages the terrorists. It undermines our own values. It corrupts our system. And it doesn't get good intelligence.

Ann Richards

Well, let me tell you, any conservative that's unhappy with George Bush warms my heart, in any way that they can wake up and smell the coffee would be really great.