“A lot of what I do around Houston is to find ways to lift people throu...” — Neil Bush Quote

A lot of what I do around Houston is to find ways to lift people through literacy. It's become part of our family culture. Everyone in our family has found some way and capacity to serve. You don't necessarily need to be President or First Lady to serve and help.

The George H. W. Bush Volunteer Generation Fund will further expand the scope and effectiveness of volunteerism.

China is not an economic enemy or existential national security threat to the United States.

People feel good serving others.

Trump's anti-China trade demagoguery may work in firing up his base, but it does a disservice to the truth.

It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.

As far as working with Kanye and Solange, that was amazing. After 'Swing Lo Magellan', I needed a change. Getting to work in that capacity, writing for other people and working for other people as a writer and as a person who's not representing it as the front person or whatever - it's such a different perspective you can get.

Being gay facilitated my capacity for shame. As a child, I carried around this thing that gradually became this big dark secret. When I came out in a newspaper interview at 30 I was expecting the reaction the following day to be like the climax of 'Dead Poets Society,' but actually no one really cared.

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.