George H.W. Bush

We have to make it clear to Americans that other proposals like the national health care, expanded Medicare, Americare, and 'play or pay' are fundamentally Government-controlled.

I transmit also, for the information of the Senate, the report of the Department of State with respect to this treaty.

This cut would undermine last year's landmark 'Missile Defense Act of 1992'.

The most troubling features would impede cost-saving initiatives.

Leadership, character, intellectual and professional ability, and commitment to community and national service are the principal criteria employed in the selection of fellows.

A specific tenet, reflected in this treaty, is that U.S. investment abroad and foreign investment in the United States should receive fair, equitable, and nondiscriminatory treatment.

Require CPB to take steps to ensure balance and objectivity in its programming.

We must not, in our desire to see change, diminish the quality of American health care.

I think it is critical, and I think it's an idea whose time has come.

The fellowship includes an education program that parallels and broadens the unique experience of working at the highest levels of the Federal Government.

Let me be clear: Our commitment to action did not begin and will not end with Rio.

I will join in proposing a prompt start to adoption of climate action plans.

Much has been accomplished since those early days of environmentalism, and much has been learned.

Only a growing economy can generate the resources and the will to manage natural assets for the longer term and the common good.

The economy can grow even while pollution is reduced.

I will propose a major new initiative to protect and enhance the world's forests.

The Seymour approach is far--and I'll put some names on it for you--the Seymour approach is far better, far better than Miller-Bradley. And yes, we're trying to--I don't want to be flirting around leaving any doubt. Miller-Bradley is…

I'm a two-watch man again, but I'm telling you that I came out way ahead on the trade. That midshipman came out--he gave me--he did all right. He didn't have anything when he started. So he got my watch. But I didn't know he was from here…

Well, we're trying. I know they're going to want to raise the question that might get me in trouble, but I know, for example, on endangered species you've got some major California problems. They're national problems. We are trying to get…

Well, I don't know that we're going to defund it. What we're trying to do is to get it, through competent and sensible appointees, get it confined so it doesn't go off into the political arena, trying to make a lot of political statements…

Yes, it's wrong to beat up people. I think that's a good point. I said that, you know, when I made a speech to the country on that point. It's a good point. Presidential Campaign

The question was, how do I feel about the Rodney King verdict? As I told the Nation, what I saw I didn't like. I am also very confident that our law, our system of law in the final analysis is fair. I'm convinced that justice is done under…

David? Well, I think that we ought to give plenty of help to those people, and I think we are. I think education is terribly important on the reservation. I think we can do better on it, although I think we've got some good educational…

Let's see. I'd say baseball. Any of you guys play soccer? Soccer? Anybody play that? Not many, so few. I used to play that in school. I played basketball in school. I played baseball. And I'll tell you something--this may not be…

See, that guy, he's helping you. I think to myself, now, here's a guy, he could be doing anything he wanted probably outside here, but he's giving of his time to help you. So I have a sense of gratitude about that. I sometimes have a sense…