It's not George's substance abuse that bothers me, but his lack of substance. That he coasted on his family's name is understandable. Lots of guys do that. But Georgie, as we called him then, has absolutely no intellectual curiosity about anything. He wasn't interested in ideas or books or causes. He didn't travel; he didn't read newspapers; he didn't watch the news; he didn't even go to movies... How anyone ever got out of Yale without developing some interest in the world besides booze and sports stuns me. This guy has no concept of complex issues. He's a simple minded zealot and -- God help us all -- he's now the guy with his finger on the button.

--Tom Wilner, Yale 1966 and DKE, a Bush fraternity brother
as quoted in Kitty Kelly's The Family