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Press conference

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm president of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!

George H.W. Bush

Press Conference, March 22, 1990 · 1990

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

What is at stake is more than one small country; it is a big idea: a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind-peace and security, freedom and the rule of law.

George H.W. Bush

1991 State of the Union Address · 1991

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn. For in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like the leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

George H.W. Bush

Inaugural Address of George H.W. Bush · 1989

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

And now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order.

George H.W. Bush

1991

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

Life is what we make of it. Always has been, always will be.

1951

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

We know what works: Freedom works. We know what's right: Freedom is right. We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on Earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections, and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.

George H.W. Bush

Inaugural Address of George H. W. Bush · 1989

★ 2.8

Speech · Political speech

We're a nation of community, of thousands and tens of thousands of ethnic, religious, social, business, labor union, neighborhood, regional and other organizations, all of them varied, voluntary, and unique... A brillant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

George H.W. Bush

1988

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order-a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations.

George H.W. Bush

1991

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

I have spoken of a Thousand Points of Light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good. We will work hand in hand, encouraging, sometimes leading, sometimes being led.

George H.W. Bush

Inaugural Address of George H.W. Bush · 1989

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

The biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.

George H.W. Bush

1992 State of the Union Address · 1992

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

Clearly, mistakes were made.

George H.W. Bush

Speech to the American Enterprise Institute, December 3, 1986 · 1986

★ 3.7

Press conference

This will not stand. This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait.

George H.W. Bush

Press Conference, August 5, 1990 · 1990

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

A line has been drawn in the sand.

George H.W. Bush

1990

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

Read my lips: no new taxes.

George H.W. Bush

1988 Republican convention speech · 1988

★ 5.4