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We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.
I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.
If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.
The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.
I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.
We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.
There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after.
Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.
I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.
Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.
I believe we should make use of what we know. We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised.
But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.
The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.
Now we can see a new world coming into view, a world where there is a very real prospect of a New World Order.
This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.
I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.
You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't.
There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.
Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.
I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried.
We don't think of ourselves as a dynasty. I really hope some of my grandkids will be actively involved in politics.
My grandkids say, "Reality Bites." O.K., but it also challenges and rewards... I believe our best days are yet to come.
Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.
The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It's to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.
It's not whether people like you but whether they share the bright dreams...and understand the heartbeat of the country.
Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.
I don't like dynasty and legacy. But I think there's a period in the U.S. history where Bushes have been in the forefront.
We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family, to make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.
Study hard; and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money as your dog.
We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!
We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God.
I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.
I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.
I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.
Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.
It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.
Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.
Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.
But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.
We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.
One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.
No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.
Tell me your Dreams and I'll write you a Fantasy. Tell me your Fantasies and I'll paint you a Dream for the minds eye you can get lost in!
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.
I put confidence in the American people, in their ability to sort through what is fair and what is unfair, what is ugly and what is un-ugly.
Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.
I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.
Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend, and neighbor.
There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death.