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You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

George H. W. Bush (1924-2018) American politician, diplomat, US President (1989-1993)
Commencement Speech, Yale University (27 May 1991)
 
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Just as Poland had a rebellion against totalitarianism, I am rebelling against broccoli, and I refuse to give ground. 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.

George H. W. Bush (1924-2018) American politician, diplomat, US President (1989-1993)
Comment at State Dinner for Polish PM Tadeusz Mazowiecki (21 Mar 1990)
 
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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 (1924-2018) American politician, diplomat, US President (1989-1993)
Inaugural Address (20 Jan 1989)
 
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There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.

George H. W. Bush (1924-2018) American politician, diplomat, US President (1989-1993)
Inaugural Address (20 Jan 1989)
 
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We have a place, all of us, in a long story. A story we continue, but whose end we will not see. It is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, a story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer.

George H. W. Bush (1924-2018) American politician, diplomat, US President (1989-1993)
Inaugural Address (20 Jan 1989)
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No, I don’t know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.

George H. W. Bush (1924-2018) American politician, diplomat, US President (1989-1993)
News Conference, O’Hare Airport, Chicago (27 Aug. 1987)
 
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We cannot blame the schools alone for that dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. […] What happens at home really matters. And when our kids come home from school, do they pick up a book, or do they sit glued to the tube watching music videos? Parents: don’t make the mistake of thinking your kids only learn from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. You are and always will be their first teachers.

George H. W. Bush (1924-2018) American politician, diplomat, US President (1989-1993)
Speech, Lewiston Comprehensive High School, Maine (3 Sep 1991)
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Often misattributed to his son, George W. Bush.
 
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