We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family, to make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.

I will never apologize for the United States of America - I don't care what the facts are. Said after 'Vincennes' shot down an Iranian Airliner.

A new breeze is blowing--and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on: there is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken.

We know what works: freedom works. We know what's right: freedom is right. We know how to secure a more and just and prosperous life for man on earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.

But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.

I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the Decade of the Brain.

There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.