George W. Bush Quotes

When your mission is to restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary.

We're going to put sanity back into the White House.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

I'm going to use the White House and every tool at my disposal as your president to make the case that patriotism is profitable.

To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.

I would rather be right than President.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

There are, believe it or not, good politicians.

Every leader has the responsibility to hone his or her integrity. Many times, there are integrity traps that have a tendency to catch well-meaning leaders off guard.

White House cultures inevitably reflect the president's character. Jimmy Carter is a thoroughly honest, good person. So was his White House.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

Men say that I am a saint losing myself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to be a saint.

The Decalogue and the Golden Rule have no place in a political campaign. The commander who lost the battle through the activity of his moral nature would be the derision and jest of history.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

[Richard Nixon was:] The greatest moral leader of the last third of this century.

There are a lot of smart people in politics and government, but character matters ... it is terribly important that the two be melded.

People hold elected officials to a higher ethical standard than most others.

I suppose that an honest man shines more in politics than he does elsewhere.

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

It is not true that people of high principle are ill-suited for politics.

I think that at his core, Benjamin Netanyahu is not corrupt.

Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.