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George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).

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.

The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.

Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

I'm so American that I had grandfathers who actually fought a battle against each other.

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

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.

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.