George W. Bush Quotes
When you are talking to Dick Cheney, you are talking to me.
Cheney had a great deal of power as Vice President initially given to him by Bush with actions like this.
George W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (Republican, TX), Statement to a Senator, Peter Baker, Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, 2013
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In Pakistan, the civilian governments were not in control of the army who would have their own polices, foreign and domestic. When the head of the Army assumed the Presidency in a coup, he approached the Prime Minister of India—the Pakistan traditional enemy—and assured him that unlike with the civilian governments, he could negotiate for the country. Ironically, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh disclosed this quotation after Pervez Musharraf was deposed and democracy and civilian government returned to Pakistan. However the Indian Prime Minister then complained that there was no one to negotiate with as the civilian elected prime minister could not speak for the army—still the major power in Pakistan.
Explaining why he did not accept the Vice Presidential nomination of his party:
Quoted in The Los Angeles Times, July 4, 1989 as "With a flag one can do anything."
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He was born into the Bush family; his father, George H. W. Bush, was the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
