George W. Bush is history's president, a man for whom the long-term success or failure of democracy in Iraq will determine his place in history.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.
Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.
If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.
George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and organisation and empathy. You don't have to be intelligent. A moron in a hurry could know that you don't prevent war by having a war.
Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy - nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led based on core conviction and strong principles and has believed that time and distance would allow for context.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.