Famous George Herbert Walker Quotations

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"Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people."
by George Herbert Walker 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."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"He didn't want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with."
by George Herbert Walker
"I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity - in all things, generosity."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"Read my lips--NO NEW TAXES!"
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a basic civil right."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no, and they'll push again. And all I can say to them is read my lips No New Taxes."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"Communism didn't fall. It was pushed."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"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."
by George Herbert Walker Bush


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