As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.
I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.
I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.
It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.
Our God is a forgiving God.
I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.
Old guys can still do fun things.
The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.
Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.
I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.
You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.
I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.
Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
Read my lips: no new taxes.
I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that.
I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
