George W. Bush Quotes

I built a nuclear option to get peace, not to have bombs. Our enemies learned that they could not destroy us.

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability.

The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned about the rise of China and are threatened by the rise of radical Islam.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

People want security in this insecure world.

NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet Union, because there is no Soviet Union anymore. And where there was the Soviet Union once, there is now a number of countries, among them the new and democratic Russia.

People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

A stable world may be one in which the United States can act to secure peace without fear of a nuclear attack.

Uncertainty is the enemy of prosperity.

Hope and certainty are the enemies of peace.

China, North Korea's last ally in the world has just voted agaisnt them [in the United Nations]. What would you do if you thought every country in the world was against you and you wanted to survive? You would buy insurance. And the best insurance you could get to prevent invasion would be nuclear weapons, and that is just what North Korea has done. So now, when the President [Trump] threatens them, what do they do? They go out and buymore insurance.

What is happened in the years since the Second World War is not a temporary truce. It is not simply a ceasefire. Instead of battling with weapons and armaments, people battle only with arguments and ideas.

Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.

This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses.

But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.

If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.

For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.

The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.

Presidents should be very careful at all times in discussing the use or non-use of nuclear weapons. Presidents since the cold war have used nuclear deterrence to keep the peace, and I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons.

Reason lives on the systematization of the past, but Faith is the promise of the future.

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.