George H. W. Bush

Every loss of life is terrible. ”

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. ”

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace. ”

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe. ”

I hope my own children never have to fight a war. ”

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff. ”

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around. ”

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. ”

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. ”

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality. ”