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.

People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.

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.

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.