"Hey, we're just like the Waltons. We're all praying for the end of the depression, too."
— Bart Simpson, delivering a memorable version of The Stinger in The Simpsons
Bush: "What am I going to do?" Can't say. Wouldn't be prudent. Got to watch out for the vision thing. Wouldn't be prudent. Well, let me just sum up. On track, stay the course, a thousand points of light. Stay the course.
Moderator: Governor Dukakis, rebuttal?
Dukakis: I can't believe I'm losing to this guy.
—Saturday Night Live parody of the 1988 Presidential debates
"Somebody told me the other day that the Secret Service has orders that if George Bush is shot, they're to shoot Quayle."
“If he thinks George Bush will stay out of the sewer, then he doesn’t know George Bush.”
"For we are given power not to advance our own purposes, nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people."
—Inaugural address
"I love you, too."
—Bush's last words, to his son
