George H.W. Bush

We want a free society, a just society, a fair society.

There's nothing that I feel more excited about or whose importance I think is priority than this program of America 2000.

I think it's an exciting project.

The language in the amendment purporting to prohibit quotas would endorse racial preferences, not eliminate them.

Calvin Coolidge once told a gathering of newspaper editors that 'the chief business of the American people is business.'

It is fundamentally unfair to allow an employer to be the judge of its own case.

Civil rights legislation must operate to obliterate consideration of factors such as race, color, religion, sex, or national origin from employment decisions.

You are never too old to stop learning.

I determine... that the further extension of the waiver authority... will substantially promote the objectives of section 402 of the Act.

This is what we call in the White House a cameo appearance -- in, out.

This administration believes in free and fair trade.

We cannot dictate from Washington.

I talked to him a few days ago--well, I could well do it because we're very pleased, and I'm sure he is. But I have no schedule of a phone call, and we did talk a few days ago.

I don't know what they asked. I was talking about what they've talked to me about. And I expect if there's some firm price tag of that nature, why, they'd want the United States--[inaudible].

Yes, I think it should be the framework because that means then that we've worked out some gritty details that still plague us. But the point is, this is good on its own merits, and also, I think it will help. Now we've seen that we both…

We want to get it down so we can sit down and say, hey, we've got agreement on START. Whether that means sign a paper with everything written on it----

Well, I don't know. Brent and John Sununu are trying to sort out the scheduling problems. But as far as I'm concerned, as soon as we get the remaining details out of the way, the sooner, the better. And I think President Gorbachev wants…

We did not, in this meeting, discuss arms control. So that did not come up--CFE, START, or the Moscow summit. Now, maybe before they leave we'll have more insight into that. But it did not come up in this meeting here, if that's what your…

The matter was obviously discussed, and as I say, I've got a little homework to do now before I make comments on that, definitive comments on that or on grain credits or on MFN. But I'm feeling more positive on a wide array of specific…

It doesn't affect this at all.

I view it as an optimistic happening there and something good for our country.

I think President Gorbachev wants that.

This is good on its own merits.

I think that they made clear that they were prepared to do that, and all I'm saying is we need a little more detail.

I do mean it. You all set a wonderful example.