George H. W. Bush Quotes - Page 3

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

It's amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you're no longer president.

I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job.

A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.

You got to wrestle with your conscience. You got to listen to people. It doesn't come so easy to me that this is right and that's wrong. It's never that simple.

We ought to increase legal immigration for our country's advantage. The high-tech world we are now dominating is dependent on educated folks, but we're short...of workers. It is to our nation's advantage to encourage high-powered, smart people to come into our country.

Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.

Time and again in this century, the political map of the world was transformed. And ineach instance a new world order came about through the advent of a new tyrant or the outbreak of a bloody global war, or its end.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.

Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective- a new world order-can emerge... We are now in sight of a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Every problem that the country faces is being solved in some community by some group or some individual. The question is how to get connected so that the whole nation can solve problems. A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense; partners in civilization.

People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage.

We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf , as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a new world order - can emerge: a new era - freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony.

It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.

I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you.

We consider it vital that the community of nations be drawn together in an orderly, disciplined, rational way to review the history of our global environment, to assess the potential for future climate change, and to develop effective programs.

I believe we should make use of what we know. We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised.