George W. Bush Quotes

Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions.

To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population—ah, that's proof of pure political genius.

In my home state of Indiana, we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes, even while making record investments in education and roads and health care.

Priorities have to be allocated by the government because they have a complete picture of the country's requirements. If priority is allocated to a manned space programme, I'm confident we can swing it. But it's going to be tremendously expensive - the infrastructure and so on.

If you can make finance more functional, make it a tiny percent better, you create a great deal of resources, which you can use for other things like education and healthcare.

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

Rwanda really did take very strong steps towards development. I mean, this place is unrecognizable. There's a very good management of economy and resources - it's a success story, and that's great.

I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.

Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.

Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals.

Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.

A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.

The railroads were built at the expense of the destruction of agriculture.

Instead of condemning Israel, the underdeveloped countries should take it as an example of how to build an advanced, prosperous nation.

I’d rather build highways here then try nation building in Iraq

God gave the world to men in common; but since he gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed that he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated.

The necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Energy is one of the worst bottlenecks in the development of industry and the national economy

I don’t think everybody fully appreciates the consequences of slower growth, which are very serious. You need growth to have the resources to build the infrastructure, housing, to uphold the standard of living.

Infrastructure is sort of that good spending in the middle, where even if you do misallocate resources a little bit, you still have something to show for it. It's tangible; it may help economic growth and so forth.

We should not be strangling ourselves economically by not utilizing the resources we have been given or by putting them off-limits.

What makes a successful country is when you invest in the people of the country - whether it's education, health care, job training - and you rebuild a clean America to provide the kind of infrastructure that will be sustainable and let us grow.