George H.W. Bush

Probably better coordinated than the politicians.

Now, if he'd have stood up and said, if you do that we're going to blast you, and we're going to lead the Third World in opposition--he could have done that.

The uncertainty of August. Well, the Soviets stayed with us at the U.N. And so, at the end, when they started saying here's a peace plan, we knew what we had to do. And I did not assign to them the motives that many of our countrymen did…

And then I'd say the Congress. It was argued I can't go to war without the Congress. And I was saying, I have the authority to do this. We had lawyers. But once Congress acted affirmatively, it became much clearer to the American people…

Well, we had some difficult ones internally here. And one of them was our press was saying I had not convinced the American people that what we were doing as an administration was right. And Marlin was in on that, General Scowcroft, Bob…

Good, and better. It depends who you mean. Morocco was an Arab-solution state, and I feel very respectful of and friendship toward His Majesty the King [Hassan II]. I mean, that wasn't strained by this. You've got a problem if you're…

You've got it. [Laughter] They have another way of doing it over here, saying ``and a followup,'' you know. They'll ask you something unrelated and call it a followup so they can get two. Syria-U.S. Relations

Well, the one key lesson is: Aggression will not stand. You don't bully your neighbor. You don't swagger around the neighborhood with an arrogance and back it up by overwhelming force without paying a price. Same thing you learned in the…

I wouldn't say right now. They're coming at us at the wrong time. I don't think they've requested that. They were broken off because, as you recall, some terrorists--what we call terrorism. They were calling it something else. But I think…

Respect to Kuwait March 8, 1991 To the Congress of the United States: I hereby provide notice, consistent with section 586C(c)(2) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991 (Public Law…

I'll not take any questions here. I am concerned about reports that some of them were clapped on the ears and it affected their hearing. But I don't know the details yet on all of that. Note: The President spoke at 11:35 a.m. in the Oval…

I think this is a time, as Abraham Lincoln once said in our history, to think anew.

I am hereby transmitting my report that finds that substantial progress has been made in telecommunications trade talks.

I have publicly said, and I'll repeat it -- we want better relations with Iran.

This is not a U.S. effort by itself.

There will not be a United States plan to bring peace to Lebanon, to the Gulf, or to the Israeli-Palestine question.

Special meeting. The Foreign Minister. For the end of the Gulf war. It was a debate. We have the support of 90 percent of the Parliament. And he made the statement saying that we would continue providing the good support that we have made…

The statement today--was this a regular meeting of Parliament at home? The Foreign Minister. No, no, this was a special meeting.

May I just repeat for our friends from Spain what I said earlier to the first wave, and that is that we on the United States side are very grateful for the cooperation that we've had with Spain regarding the Gulf crisis. And they've been…

Isn't it great to be an American in these wonderful times?

This has been a triumph for the 28 nations united against aggression.

America must stand ready to do the hard work of freedom.

I'll be honest with you, that has not been called to my attention. And I'll have to look at that because whether that means there has not been compliance with the embargo, I don't know. I don't want to jump to conclusions. I really have…

I will work very hard for peace--just as hard as I have in the prosecution of the war. And it's interesting you mention the arms sales. I don't think there will be any arms embargo because we're not going to let any friend come into a role…

I don't know what they want to do. But they're big enough to do anything they want to do. And we owe them a vote of profound gratitude. And so we'll take this opportunity in answer to this question to say once again to both of them, thank…