George W. Bush Quotes

President of the United States from 2001 to 2009

George Walker Bush (born 6 July 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009, and the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He is the eldest son of Barbara and George H. W. Bush. He married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives shortly thereafter. He was elected president in 2000 after a close and controversial election, becoming the fourth president to be elected while receiving fewer popular votes nationwide than his opponent. He is the second president to have been the son of a former president, the first having been John Quincy Adams.

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Birth Name: George Walker Bush

Alternative Names: Bush Jr. • Dubya • Bush 43 • POTUS 43 • George Bush

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Pray as if it all depends upon God, for it does. But work as if it all depends upon us, for it does.

"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." — George W. Bush, interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006

So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.

I understand small business growth. I was one.

The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond.

hello my fellow americans

Our nation must come together to unite.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

(Face palm!)

Today our nation saw evil...and we responded with the best of America.

Lincoln discovered Generals Grant and Sherman. Roosevelt had Eisenhower and Bradley. I found David Petraeus and Ray Odierno.

In my first meeting with Vladimir Putin in the spring of 2001, he complained that Russia was burdened by Soviet-era debt. At that point, oil ws selling for $26 per barrel. By the time I saw Putin at the APEC summit in Sydney in September 2007 oil had reached $71 — on its way to $137 in the summer of 2008. He leaned back in his chair and asked how were Russia's mortgage-backed securities doing.

Heckuva job, Brownie!

At that point in my life, I was not looking for a career. I viewed my first decade after college as a time to explore. I didn't want anchors to hold me down. If something caught my attention, I would try it. If not, I would move on.

One of our energy strategies is to increase the CAFE standards to 35 miles per hour..

Bill Clinton also benefited from a friendly press corps. With their baby boomer background, more liberal views, and Ivy League lawyer credentials, the Clintons fit the mold of many of the baby boomer reporters. In time, of course, the press would turn on Clinton. In the 1992 campaign, however, it seemed to me that some news outlets allowed their zeal for change to undermine their high standards of journalistic objectivity. (The pattern would later repeat with another exciting candidate promising change, Barack Obama.)