President Quotes - Page 158

I'm forever a former president and I understand that, but at this point in my post-presidency, I don't want to be involved with politics.

I ended up being the 43rd president of the United States. It was an awesome experience, and I'm glad I did it.

I'm just beginning to live the next chapter of my life. In other words, politics - being governor and president - is not the end of my life. It's a chapter.

I decided what I wanted to do, not to make me look good, but to make me feel comfortable. Other presidents do it other ways.

I don't think you can run for president or be president unless you're a busy person.

One of the things I learned as president is that your life is just not going to unfold the way you want it to. There will be surprises, challenges, and therefore the question is how you deal with the unexpected.

I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency.

We spend less time with each other now than we did during the presidency. When you're president, you're usually out and back in the same day - at least I was. I just came from a trip to the Middle East last week, where I was gone for five nights, and when I left, Laura [Bush] was out of town.

I'm the only president who really put it out in the State of the Union and was very specific about how I felt we ought to do it.

So long as I'm the president, we will. I clearly see the challenge. I see the challenge of what these threats pose to our homeland, and I see the challenge of what these threats pose to the world.

I would like to remembered as President as somebody who did not compromise principles in order to try to be loved or liked.

George H. W. Bush is gracious. And I'm not saying any of the former presidents aren't gracious, I'm just saying, this man is gracious.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it. Dealing with Congress is a matter of give and take. The president doesn't get everything he wants, the Congress doesn't get everything they want. But we're finding good common ground.

I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways.

There will be no going back to the era before September the 11th, 2001 - to false comfort in a dangerous world.

Saddam Hussein's regime is a gray and gathering danger.

And our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for pre-emptive action.

I want him [Saddam Hussein]. I want - I want justice. There is an old poster seen out west. As I recall, it said, Wanted Dead or Alive.

We have every reason to assume the worst.

we're too great a nation to allow the evil-doers to affect our soul and our spirit.

We will fight with full force and might of the United States military.

The American people are proud to welcome your majesty back to the United States, a nation you've come to know very well. After all, you've dined with 10 U.S. presidents. You've helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17 - in 1976.

I never dreamed about being President, I wanted to be Willie Mays.

Presidents, whether things are good or bad, get the blame. I understand that.

Give me a chance to be your president and America will be safer and stronger and better.