George W. Bush Quotes

I would like to stress this point undoubtedly: France sees the Arab Spring as auspicious. The Arab Spring holds out tremendous hope - hope for democracy and the rule of law, hope for peace and stability, hope for better future in which every person can pursue goals commensurate with his or her needs, talents and ambitions.

The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.

I firmly believe that a free Iraq will be a catalyst to other substantive and important changes in that part of the world.

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.

I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries.

It will take years to bring Iraq the democracy it deserves.

There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.

We’re trying to create the first democracy in the Arab world.

Modernity and moderation is what we need in Egypt.

Across the region, those rights that we take for granted are being claimed with joy by those who are prying loose the grip of an iron fist.

Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims of Iraq who now seek to live democratically is not a mistake. In the long, long history of the Middle East, this breakthrough may one day be ranked as a dramatic turning point in regional history.

Iraq and Afghanistan are now democracies and they are allies in the cause of freedom and peace.

For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its infancy.

What is the value of having millions of people in Iraq not having a repressive regime? What is the value of having the Iraqi regime not shooting at UK and US aircraft almost every day? What is the value of the Iraqis having a free press? What is the value of the foreign minister of Iraq going to Paris, calling for an end of the Gadhafi regime and citing Iraq as a model, as an example, that in fact a freer political system can exist in that part of the world?

The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.

If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization than the great pyramids.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.

Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.