George W. Bush Quotes

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have.

The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf.

To be a great president you have to have a war. All the great presidents had their wars.

In modern warfare the role of those who institute it is often far removed from the conflict on the ground … I could see welcoming a weapon that eliminated the decision makers while leaving the innocent unharmed.

the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

To wage war, we need a commander in chief who has made tough calls in tough times and stood up to be held accountable over and over, not first-term senators who've never made an executive decision in their life.

With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.

President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created one.

Every US President has to have a war.

In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.

The next president of the United States needs to figure one thing out quickly - how to be commander in chief. And I think I could do that.

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength, forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority.

I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.

You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.

Maybe a president who didn't believe our soldiers were going to heaven might be a little less willing to get them killed.

"What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?"

A general in time of war is constantly bombarded by reports both true and false; by errors arising from fear or negligence or hastiness; by disobedience born of right or wrong interpretations, of ill will; of a proper or mistaken sense of duty; of laziness; or of exhaustion; and by accident that nobody could have foreseen. In short, he is exposed to countless impressions, most of them disturbing, few of them encouraging. ... If a man were to yield to these pressures, he would never complete an operation.