George H W Bush/presidency 1989%e2%80%931993

Famous quotes containing the words george, bush and/or presidency:

    Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
    17th century English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

    I will cut the head off my baby and swallow it if it will make Bush lose.
    Zainab Ismael, Iraqi housewife. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 31 (November 16, 1992)

    ... how often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House ...
    M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)