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* '''Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the identity of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.'''
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304141810/https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/1999/bush_speech_042699.html Speech at CIA headquarters to Agency employees (26 April 1999)]
* '''Most of the money that [[Bill Clinton|President Clinton]] and I raised has not been spent yet, and it will go into reconstruction. … This is bigger than politics; this is about saving lives, and I must confess I’m getting a huge kick out of it.'''
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***in his closing remarks at a Vice-Presidential debate with Geraldine Ferraro in Philadelphia, PA, in October 1984. ''Bush, Ferraro Clash at Civic Center'' CHRISTOPHER HEPP. Philadelphia Daily News. Philadelphia, Pa.: October 12, 1984. pg. 3
*'''No nation can fully understand itself or find its place in the world if it does not look with clear eyes at all the glories and disgraces, too, of the past. We, in the United States, acknowledge such an injustice in our own history: The internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry was a great injustice, and it will never be repeated.'''
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20170625151743/http://www.navy.mil/navco/pages/2001/01pg-017-ph-bush120791.htm Observing the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, December 7 1991]
*'''Message: I care'''
**To a town-hall meeting in Exeter, New Hampshire, while campaigning during the 1992 Republican primaries. [http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/16/us/1992-campaign-republicans-immersing-himself-nitty-gritty-bush-barnstorms-new.html]. Some sources claim that this was the result of Bush mistakenly reading aloud from a cue card. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ePRIONzLmEoC&pg=PA263&lpg=PA263&dq=message+i+care+cue+card&source=bl&ots=0fIXEXQwyo&sig=drmXN3NkMLS6wozWkKuPv_12khE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAmoVChMI09PW0-f3xwIVVC-ICh2dsAkl#v=onepage&q=message%20i%20care%20cue%20card&f=false]
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| Former Texas Governor Ann Richards, in a keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention (18 July 1988)}}
{{quote|I'm not going to tell George you clapped more for Ferris than you clapped for George.
|Barbara Bush, after paraphrasing a quote from ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off]]'', 1990 commencement address at Wellesley College}}
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