He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

— H.W. Brands

He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see, but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application

— H.W. Brands

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

— H.W. Brands

He made his character his platform.

— H.W. Brands

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

— H.W. Brands

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.

— H.W. Brands

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

— H.W. Brands

He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

— H.W. Brands

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

— H.W. Brands

He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign

— H.W. Brands