老布希總統的vision for America, 在他接受共和黨提名時的演說和就職演說時已做出充分說明
"This is America ... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky." — Acceptance speech at Republican National Convention, Aug. 18, 1988.
"America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world." — Inauguration speech, Jan. 20, 1989.
他對末來的期望,a kinder, gentler America , for all Americans, 也是我對美國的期望。