“Penso che siamo tutti d'accordo, il passato è finito.”
dal The Dallas Morning News, 10 maggio 2000
George Walker Bush è un politico e imprenditore statunitense, 43º Presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America dal 2001 al 2009.
Chiamato comunemente George W. Bush o George Bush, è noto anche come George Bush junior poiché figlio dell'ex presidente George H. W. Bush.
È stato il 43º presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America. Il suo primo mandato quadriennale come presidente è cominciato il 20 gennaio 2001, in seguito alle elezioni presidenziali del 7 novembre 2000. Le successive elezioni presidenziali del 2 novembre 2004 lo hanno riconfermato per un secondo mandato, che ha avuto inizio il 20 gennaio 2005 ed è scaduto il 20 gennaio 2009.
Prima di diventare presidente, Bush è stato uomo d'affari e governatore del Texas dal 1995 al 2000. È fratello dell'ex governatore della Florida, Jeb Bush. Wikipedia

“Penso che siamo tutti d'accordo, il passato è finito.”
dal The Dallas Morning News, 10 maggio 2000
dal President's Remarks to the Unity Journalists of Color Convention del 6 agosto 2004
“Questi sono i risultati ufficiali dell'anno fiscale conclusosi il 30 febbraio.”
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061011-7.html,11 ottobre 2006
“[La condanna a morte inflitta a Saddam Hussein] Una pietra miliare sulla strada della democrazia.”
dal Corriere della sera, 5 novembre 2006
dall'intervista a The Times del 10 dicembre 2006
Discorso sullo Stato dell'Unione, 29 gennaio 2002
citato in Christian Rocca, Bush è il presidente peggiore degli ultimi 50 anni o ha salvato l'occidente? http://www.camilloblog.it/archivio/2009/01/17/bush-e-il-presidente-peggiore-degli-ultimi-50-anni-o-ha-salvato-loccidente/, Il Foglio, 17 gennaio 2009
Said in reference to a protest by Greens member Bob Brown during his address to the Australian Parliament as Brown was ordered to leave the parliament. October 23, 2003 http://theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/23/1066631538204.html?oneclick=true <br class="br">2000s, 2003
2010s, 2011, Q&A with Former President George W. Bush (January 2011)
Asked why his administration had been unable to locate and arrest Osama Bin Laden. (16 January 2005) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12450-2005Jan15.html <br class="br">2000s, 2005
Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso claimed that Bush said this to him in a meeting in mid-2002. As quoted in Der Spiegel http://web.archive.org/web/20020803023339/http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,196865,00.html (3 August 2002). <br class="br">Attributed, Private/attributed
2000s, 2003, Columbia space shuttle disaster (February 2003)
2010s, 2011, Q&A with Former President George W. Bush (January 2011)
Remarks at Bush Institute Summit, "The Spirit of Liberty: At Home, In The World" at the Bush Institute Summit in New York City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2YlVZxu_L0 (October 2017), as quoted in The Washington Post http://archive.is/jl9AF#selection-2115.0-2135.112 (October 2017) <br class="br">2010s, 2017
A short time later, debris was seen falling from the skies above Texas. The Columbia is lost; there are no survivors.
2000s, 2003, Remarks after Columbia space shuttle disaster (February 2003)
I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.
2000s, 2001, First inaugural address (January 2001)
If we do not turn the hearts of children toward knowledge and character, we will lose their gifts and undermine their idealism. If we permit our economy to drift and decline, the vulnerable will suffer most.
2000s, 2001, First inaugural address (January 2001)
“A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.”
Address at the Dedication of the National Museum of African-American History & Culture, delivered 24 September 2016, National Mall, Washington, D.C. reported in the American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank. As Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20200221020146/https://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gwbushafricanamericanmuseum.htm from the original https://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gwbushafricanamericanmuseum.htm on 21 February 2020. <br class="br">2010s, 2016
“And whenever we need hope and inspiration, we can look to the skies and remember. God bless.”
2020's, Speech during a 9/11 commemoration at the Flight 93 National Memorial
“I come without explanations or solutions. I can only tell you what I’ve seen.”
2020's, Speech during a 9/11 commemoration at the Flight 93 National Memorial
2020's, Speech during a 9/11 commemoration at the Flight 93 National Memorial
“I'm having difficulty controlling my blood lust.”
Origine: 20 September 2001, quoted in "Colin Powell Still Wants Answers" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/magazine/colin-powell-iraq-war.html