Neil Bush Quotes

I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.

I'm a friend of Colin Powell. We talk quite often.

Lord, if only I could have talked with Hitler, all this might have been avoided.

Towards the end of the Banquet came the news, the great world stirring news, that Neville [Chamberlain], on his own initiative, seeing war coming closer and closer, had telegraphed to Hitler that he wanted to see him, and asked him to name an immediate rendezvous…. Of course a way out will not be found. Neville by his imagination and practical good sense, has saved the world.

I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear is inactivity.

Bob Gates understands the difficulty of going to war. This is a man who spent almost his entire life working for the government.

I was in the Pacific. The Pacific Theater, as they say.

My grandfather served as a gunner aboard the U.S.S. Alabama in the Pacific theater during WWII.

I believe that Hillary Clinton is one of the best prepared people in our history to enter the Oval Office, with her vision, her knowledge, her experience, her strategic thinking, her connection to the American people.

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

I've stepped down from jobs that paid me well more than what I was working anywhere else. And each time, it was to serve the public good and to serve the young men and women of our armed services.

And imagine where we'd be today if President Franklin Roosevelt had owned apartment buildings in Frankfurt and Berlin. You know, some of us might be speaking German.

American diplomats worked closely with the League of Nations. The United States used its considerable influence to settle some of the outstanding issues left over from World War I, and Washington took the lead in negotiating naval limitations in the Pacific.

That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.

I lost a great uncle in World War II who was with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It isn't the case. Misunderstandings and misinformation abound.

President George H.W. Bush was a patriot who served our country in World War II, lead the CIA, an Ambassador to the United Nations, was the Vice President and the Commander and Chief who oversaw the end of the Cold War and successfully led our troops through the Gulf War.

Learning about WWII at the U.S. Naval Academy taught me about military tactics and the importance of fighting for our country's highest ideals.

The U.S. cannot implement a cogent strategy on the world stage if no one is sure whether to take the President seriously.

My grandfather served as a pilot with the Army Air Corps, and he was shot down over Normandy in August 1944.

For years before my Navy enlistment, I had studied the Soviet Union and the KGB's history of political intrigue in preparation for a career in intelligence.

Fifty years would seem to be time enough to prepare a definitive history of the Second World War. In an age of instant data-gathering, one might think that the historians could have arrived at a consensus for interpreting the main events of the war. In reality, no such consensus exists.

My dad was a fighter pilot with the 210th Combat Aviation in Vietnam.