George H.W. Bush

I take great pride in the fact that the young kids go to bed at night without the same fear of nuclear war that their parents had.

That's a big difference.

The United States has long welcomed to its shores refugees from oppression and persecution.

This provision will not apply to the extent that I determine it would violate the Nation's international obligations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade or any other international agreement to which this country is a party.

Government never produced a constructive job in its life.

This bill, which is a landmark in veterans' legislation, reflects America's continuing recognition of the invaluable contributions that veterans and their families have made to our Nation.

Today I have signed into law S. 2679, the 'Hawaii Tropical Forest Recovery Act.'

We have a program called Job Training 2000.

I think we can get that done.

I think we should try something new.

I think those three specifics are good.

We've got a good record on the environment. But I'll be darned if I'm going to go to the extreme. The Ozone Man and Governor Clinton want, listen to this one, they want 40- to 45-miles-per-gallon fuel efficiency standards. That would throw…

Thank you, Mac. Thank you very, very much. Thank you, Gerald McRaney. Thank you for that great Ohio welcome. Thank you very, very much. Thank you. Audience members. Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!

Well, I don't know. I hope so. That's what it's all about. Note: The question-and-answer session began at 1:30 p.m. at the WPSD-TV studios. Tom Butler, WPSD-TV vice president of news, served as moderator for the session.

I looked at my watch in the debate, and I caught the dickens for it. But time flies when you're having fun. [Laughter] Mr. Butler. We want to thank you. We want to thank my colleagues in Louisville where Jackie Hays had some very good…

Really? Hey, listen, how would you like to have an author in your family that, like Millie--the dog wrote a book, with a little help from Barbara Bush, and it made over $1 million. It's now in Japan and Russia, and every dime of it has…

Four more! Thank you. Thank you very much, Gerald McRaney. I am proud to have ``Major Dad,'' Gerald McRaney, at my side. And I am grateful to him for his loyal support. Let me just say at the outset I'm very pleased to be here, back again…

Hey, good question. That's what we call a--in the World Series every once in a while you'll see the seams on it when it comes over the plate, the slow ball. You know what I mean. But, look, Governor Clinton said in the debate, ``I want to…

We have to keep going forward.

A youth award for community service is hereby established.

I regret, however, that the Congress chose to attach these important reforms to a housing bill that contains numerous provisions that raise serious concerns.

I would modestly give myself an A, because of what I just told her.

I have great respect for Mikhail Gorbachev and for Yeltsin, but I've learned to have a little question mark about the New Yorker these days.

We're going to show these critics and these naysayers that we are going to win.

Tell them I just signed a bill last week, and that bill goes after the deadbeat dads.