George W. Bush Quotes About Running

• It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." —George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.

  George W. Bush

  Running, June, Cameras

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

  George W. Bush

  Running, Office, Principles

• This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Silly, Appreciate

  "Bush Finds It Easy to Slip on an Icy Campaign Trail". articles.latimes.com. January 28, 2000.

• I've got a great sense of where I want to lead and I'm comfortable with why I'm running. And, you know, the call on that speech was, beware. This is going to be a tough campaign.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Humor, Political

  "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

• It helps me sleep at night.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Sleep, Night

• I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for president.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Believe, Humor

  "The Faith of George W. Bush". Book by Stephen Mansfield, 2004.

• Then I went for a run with the other dog and just walked. And I started thinking about a lot of things. I was able to - I can't remember what it was. Oh, the inaugural speech, started thinking through that.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Dog, Humor

• I've got a reason for running. I talk about a larger goal, which is to call upon the best of America. It's part of the renewal. It's reform and renewal. Part of the renewal is a set of high standards and to remind people that the greatness of America really does depend on neighbors helping neighbors and children finding mentors. I worry. I'm very worried about, you know, the kid who just wonders whether America is meant for him. I really worry about that.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Children, Humor

  "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

• And uh, so, I'm running for a reason. I'm answering this question here and the answer is, you cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative. And so to answer your question, I'm going to win because people sense my heart, know my sense of optimism and know where I want to lead the country. And I tease people by saying, "A leader, you can't say, follow me the world is going to be worse." I'm an optimistic person. I'm an inherently content person.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Running, Revenge

  "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

• I feel like God wants me to run for president. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen. I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Running, Presidential

  "How born-again George became a man on a mission" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2005.

• America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Grateful, America

• America is addicted to oil...We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric cars and in pollution-free cars that run on hydrogen. We will also fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or switch grass.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Cutting, America

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 31 January 2006

• We also know that Iraq is harboring a terrorist network headed by a senior al Qaeda terrorist planner. This network runs a poison and explosive training camp in northeast Iraq, and many of its leaders are known to be in Baghdad.

  George W. Bush

  Senior, Running, War

  "Bush: 'All the world can rise to this moment'". www.cnn.com. February 6, 2003.

• If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Wisdom, Risk

• It appears to be a re-run of a bad movie. [Iraqi President Saddam Hussein] is delaying. He's deceiving. He's asking for time. He's playing hide-and-seek with inspectors. One thing is for certain - he's not disarming.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Iraq, President

• We run a danger of trying to say the casualties are less than other wars or more than expected. It's just everybody matters, every person matters, and what really matters is having the strategy and the will to make sure any death is not -
  is honored by achieving an objective.

  George W. Bush

  Running, War, Trying

  "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.aparchive.com. December 16, 2005.

• Running for governor of Texas against a very popular governor [incumbent Ann Richards] was deemed to be risky. Everybody thought I would lose. As I put in my book, my mother said, "You're going to lose!"

  George W. Bush

  Mother, Running, Book

  Source: www.aarp.org

• I'd also remind people, if I were running for Presidency, that a long-term problem facing the budget is Social Security and Medicare.

  George W. Bush

  Running, People, Problem

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• We don't want Washington Democrats running the House of Representatives.

  George W. Bush

  Running, House, Want

  George W. Bush's speech at Georgia Victory 2006 Rally in Perry, Georgia, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 31, 2006.

• You can imagine these radicals getting a hold of a country where they're able to pull oil off the market to run the price of oil up to extract concession.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Running, Oil

  "President Bush Discusses Midterms; War on Terror Strategy With Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 31, 2006.

• I could have easily not run for president, and people would have come up and said, "Oh, man, you would have been a great president." Or even a lousy president. But I never would have known had I not chosen to run. Part of life is seizing the moment.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Men, People

  Source: www.aarp.org

• Republican or Democrat candidate for Presidency ought to say: I look forward to working with the president to solve the problem. People expect us to come here to solve problems. And thus far, the attitude has been: Let's just kind of ignore what the president has said and just hope somebody else comes and solves it for us. And that's what I'd be running on. I'd be running on the economy and I'd be running on national security. But since I'm not running, I can only serve as an adviser to those who are.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Attitude, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• It's hard to plan and plot attacks against America if you're on the run, and that's exactly what our brave professionals are doing.

  George W. Bush

  Running, America, Brave

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. October 31, 2006.

• We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Moving, Choices

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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

  George W. Bush

  Running, Thinking, President

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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