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George H. W. Bush — Portrait after a picture by David Valdez (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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George H. W. Bush

41st President of the United States

1924–2018

5 quotes, most often on Presidency. Part of the U.S. Presidents collection.

This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait.
Remarks to reporters (5 August 1990)
- War & Peace
I do not like broccoli and I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.
News conference (22 March 1990)
A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don’t seek a window on men’s souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other’s attitudes and way of life.
George H. W. Bush’s Inaugural Address (1989)
- Presidency
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.
George H. W. Bush’s Inaugural Address (1989)
- America
- Morality
And the Congress will push me to raise taxes and I’ll say no. And they’ll push, and I’ll say no, and they’ll push again, and I’ll say, to them, “Read my lips: no new taxes.”
Speech accepting the Republican nomination, New Orleans (18 August 1988)
- Politics

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