George W. Bush Quotes

I don’t have a problem going after people who want to attack this country

Our immediate job is defense. We will play offense soon enough, but right now it is defense…. Your job is to keep America free by making Americans feel safe again

We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

Yugoslavia and Serbia will fight against terrorists regardless of whether a political agreement is reached or not.

Since September 11, the U.S. has significantly improved its security to prevent another attack.

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

Our country was hit on 9/11, 2001. Everybody in the world knows that. It hasn't been easy to deal with a different kind of enemy, but that is what we have, a different kind of enemy.

I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war.

We are keeping New Jersey one step, several steps, ahead of terrorism.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

We cannot put limitations on ourselves to protect ourselves. We have to put limitations on the enemy.

We are not safe. We are safer than we were, but we are not as safe as we could be.

Build us a fort for the securing our old men, women and children when we turn out to fight the Enemy on their coming

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security

In order to have defense here at home, we have to have offense in Iraq and Iran.

We declared war on an enemy that had declared war on us many years earlier.

We cannot measure our safety in terms of miles on a map any more.

… without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.... Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

… the war on terrorism will serve as the justification for restraints on civil liberties.

If you don’t know who they are, where they are, and what they’re planning, you can’t get them before they get you.