Famous Quotes & Sayings

George W. Bush

I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.

George W. Bush

I believe that marriage has served society well, and I believe it is important to affirm that, that marriage between a man and a woman is the ideal. And the job of the President is to drive policy toward the ideal.

George W. Bush

I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job.

George W. Bush

My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.

George W. Bush

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

George W. Bush

If our commanders on the ground say we need more troops, I will send them. But our commanders tell me they have the number of troops they need to do their job. Sending more Americans would undermine our strategy of encouraging Iraqis to take the lead in this fight. And sending more Americans would suggest that we intend to stay forever, when we are, in fact, working for the day when Iraq can defend itself and we can leave.

George W. Bush

The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.

George W. Bush

And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.

George W. Bush

I want our enemies to understand that don't think that their violent acts are going to cause this president to leave before the job is done. And I want our troops to understand we respect them and that the sacrifices they make are noble and necessary for peace.

George W. Bush

I come from the school of thought that says when people have more money in their pocket during economic times, it increases demand or investment. Small businesses begin to grow, and jobs are added.

George W. Bush

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

George W. Bush

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

George W. Bush

Education is how to help the person who's lost a job. Education is how to make sure we've got a workforce that's productive and competitive.

George W. Bush

I'm not surprised that people are unsettled because of war. The enemy has got a powerful tool, and that is to get on your TV screen by killing innocent people. And my job is to continue to remind the people it's worth it, we're not going to retreat hastily, and we're not going to pull out of there before the job is done. And we have got a plan for victory.

George W. Bush

I am a person who looks long-term, and I recognize the path we need to take. There will be moments when people are unhappy and disgruntled with some decision-making. Nonetheless, what matters most is to reach the destination. And my job as President is to see clearly where I want to go and be steadfast in my resolve to realize that vision

George W. Bush

I've got a job to do, and I'm going to be judged upon whether or not the world is more peaceful and whether or not America is more prosperous and more compassionate.

George Strait

I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.

George Steinbrenner

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

George Orwell

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

George Orwell

I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.

George Orwell

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

George R. R. Martin

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

Jean Cocteau

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

George Carlin

I wanted to get a job as a gynecologist, but I couldn't find an opening.

George Carlin

I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got together every day for a year or so - a number of then willing to put on heavy makeup, wear clothes that weren't their own and pretend to be people other than themselves - and their whole purpose for doing all this was to entertain me, then I'm not gonna start worrying about whether or not they did a good job. The effort alone was enough to make me happy.

Gene Tierney

we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.

Gene Tierney

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

Gene Simmons

Our job is to leave the world a little better than we found it. Not the same... not worse... better.

Gene Simmons

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

Gene Simmons

People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.

Gene Simmons

The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That's it. I'll house you, protect you, I'll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.

Garson Kanin

In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

Garth Brooks

The guys have told me not to quit my day job.