George W. Bush Quotes

Through adoption, Americans can forever change not only a child’s life but also their own.

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

I don’t think you can run for president or be president unless you’re a busy person.

A failed Iraq would make America less secure.

[T]he people of Iraq have spoken to the world, and the world is hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the Middle East.

Democracies don’t war; democracies are peaceful countries.

No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.

In addition to declaring and destroying all of its weapons of mass destruction, Iraq must end its support for terrorism. It must cease the persecution of its civilian population. It must stop all illicit trade outside the oil-for-food program. And it must release or account for all Gulf War personnel, including an American pilot, whose fate is still unknown. By taking these steps, and only by taking these steps, the Iraqi regime has an opportunity to avoid conflict. These steps would also change the nature of the Iraqi regime itself. America hopes the regime will make that choice.

This storm is dangerous

[The economic crisis ] gave people the option to put money into private accounts.

We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

Some say that by fighting the terrorists abroad since September the 11th, we only stir up a hornets’ nest. But the terrorists who struck that day were stirred up already. If America were not fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere, what would these thousands of killers do – suddenly begin leading productive lives of service and charity? … We are dealing here with killers who have made the death of Americans the calling of their lives.