George W. Bush Quotes

I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.

Demonizing the other does not help our cause and does bad things to us.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

You cannot reason with people who don't recognize the humanity in all of us.

With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of.

It is hate that binds people together. Love is personal.

Maine is a lot of things but one thing it will never be is the headquarters for hate groups and organizations of bigots.

A lot of the things I've talked about are being a human being, being respectful, and really just caring about others, and trying to draw the line in the sand when it comes to hate and divisiveness.

There shouldn't be any true malice towards your opponent.

We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet.

Hate has a language, so we have to find a language to combat that.

Liberals allow right-wingers on their platforms to have a 'civilized discussion,' but there's no reasoning with racists. I don't want them to have a platform that humanizes them. I want to talk down to them and meet them exactly where they are, with absolutely no respect.

Nobody - regardless of how they feel or behave - deserves to be on the other end of receiving hatred and discrimination.

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

I don't like yelling insults at someone who's never done anything to me.

We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

Ignore the ignorant.

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.

The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

No one is born hating others.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.