George W. Bush Quotes

In times of peace the stakes of our debate appear small.

I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics.

I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.

People like to talk about war.

I can't believe George Bush might be president.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

Spend most of your time with the people who are against you. Your friends are going to vote for you anyhow.

There's one thing my dad taught me: don't talk about politics, because you'll never make anyone happy. Don't even go for it.

I know how to move between political camps. When everyone in the world hated (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi, I paid him an official visit. It caused an uproar - Lula's visiting the devil!

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

It's been an unusual election [2016].

Let me tell you something, last night in the debate, during one of the breaks, two of the breaks, Donald Trump went backstage... He asked for a full length mirror. I don't know why because the podium goes up to here. He wanted a full length mirror. Maybe to make sure his pants weren't wet. I don't know.

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

I don't want to get into political mudslinging.

Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.

I mean, the criticism of Donald Trump is that he could win this race, and that he was doing well and he was rebounding and his numbers in various states were rebounding - and then he went after Miss Universe and talked about her being too fat and talked about women's looks again, and women don't like that...

I love the question-and-answer. I love to see liberals try to thrash their way to a coherent argument. And actually, I think it's fun to debate.

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.

I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain's future - in Parliament and across the country.

It looks like Rudy Giuliani is out of the race. Finally, a Republican with an exit strategy.

Republicans are having trouble luring Gov. Chris Christie into the presidential race. They should try pie.

Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.

Newt Gingrich plans to announce his campaign for president this Wednesday. I don’t know about his chances. I mean, I’m not saying Gingrich peaked in the ‘90s, but his campaign is being sponsored by Tamagotchis and Crystal Pepsi.