George W. Bush Quotes

To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.

We who once were fools and dreamers, then shall we be brave and wise.

The pioneers get all the arrows.

We are going to change the destiny of Brazil.

I maintain hope that this country can be what it's supposed to be.

I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment - this was the time - when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals.

It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

Youth is always the future of any country.

What I'm looking forward to is changing the course America is on.

A new breeze is blowing--and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on: there is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken.

Let's say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don't think we have a new Nigeria yet.

I want to be the voice of change and hope. I want to confront the big challenges this country faces.

The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.

To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change. Time and again, Americans have seen the need for change, and have taken the initiative to bring that change to life.

Bold has been my message to the people of the west, bolder is my message to you, my beloved countryman.

I will always believe our nation's best days lie ahead.

God bless the America we are trying to create.

You can change things, you can make things better.

Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.