George W. Bush Quotes

I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country, and for this, I am eternally grateful.

You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used to from a president.

Actual patriotism has to do with loving a place enough to try and improve it.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.

Criticism, any amount, we welcome it. Come, let's have a discussion - in Parliament, all the better.

I love my country, but there are so many things we could do better.

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.

Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart..

We are a country that does better when we do debate and air our differences.

I am not an American who believes that questioning or criticizing my government is unpatriotic.

I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.... It means that he has not given up hope for his country, that he still has hope for it ... I do not think it is "selling America short" when we ask a great deal of her; on the contrary, it is those who ask nothing, those who see no fault, who are really selling America short!

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an indirect tribute.

To criticize one's country is to do it a service and to pay it a compliment. It is a service because it may spur the country to do better than it is doing; it is a compliment because it evidences a belief that the country can do better than it is doing.

I will not say anything negative about the president of the United States. I don't do that. And I don't allow my children to do that.

I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation's destiny.

When candidate Donald Trump said things that I didn't necessarily agree with, I would call him on it.

The strongest tool we, as Americans, have is our ability to rally together and to find solutions with unity of purpose.

Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.

We love the American crowds.

The best critics of America are Americans.

My philosophy is that I may not like all the questions that you ask, and you may not like all the answers that I give, but this is part of a transparent government.