George W. Bush Quotes

It's a sad day in this country when you can't talk about law and order unless they want to call you a racist.

I have become the poster child for calling all the Trump people racists, when, in fact, I don't think they're all racists, but they tolerated racism. And that's a problem.

I think the president is a racist.

I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.

Donald Trump is many things, but I don't think he's a racist.

After the second chapter of Days of Obligation, which is about the death of a friend of mine from AIDS, was published in Harper's, I got this rather angry letter from a gay-and-lesbian group that was organizing a protest against the magazine. It was the same old problem: political groups have almost no sense of irony.

We're going to continue to move forward and fight. I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.

Of all the ways people save time, I think racism is the worst.

Racism is exclusion, that's why I make fun of everybody.

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

I feel like I've always had two selves - the part of me that makes films and the part of me that's political, and they haven't really connected that much. Alias Grace talks about things like class and immigration and women's rights, which felt really good. But especially now, there are pressing things to be said. It's a really scary time in the world. It's a very scary thing to have an American president who openly brags about assaulting women and is openly racist. This isn't a moment to be speaking in metaphors.

I am disappointed that after all of the struggles that we have had in this country for such a long time, trying to get through and beyond racism and bigotry and discrimination - I think it is sad. It just tells us the kind of work that we have to do as - as America, as a nation.

There's no question that Donald Trump has had ample opportunity to distance himself from the kind of racist language that comes from some of his supporters.

I think racism is a terrible thing. I think we should all learn to hate each other on a individual basis.

I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.

Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.

Louis Brandeis was not a racist like Woodrow Wilson.

I don't think the white establishment will ever respect or appreciate a black man who speaks the truth.

Donald Trump's a bigot without a shadow of a doubt.

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

You don't want to think something might be racist, but it might be, because your gut is telling you it is

I'm the rap version of Dave Chappelle. I'm not sayin' I'm nearly as talented as Chappelle when it comes to political and social commentary, but like him, I'm laughing to keep from crying.