George H.W. Bush: “About the riot thing? Kind of like I told him. I think you've got to have respect for the law. I don't think, no matter…”

“About the riot thing? Kind of like I told him. I think you've got to have respect for the law. I don't think, no matter how much some guy's hurting, that he ought to take the law in his own hands and violate somebody else's property, somebody else's right, somebody else's house, somebody else's business. Then you have to have programs. We've got a program, and it's got a funny name to it. It's called ``Weed and Seed.'' The sheriff knows what I'm talking about. That's a Federal program. It comes out of Washington. But it's going to have ramifications for a lot of communities. The concept is to weed out the criminal elements and then to seed the neighborhoods with hope. This program does exactly that, seed the neighborhoods with hope. Two more. Okay, you got it. I saw this guy. He must be tired because he showed me how he was working out. The Presidency”