""No, I don't know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic." - George HW Bush
Horrible bigot. Imagine a Presidential candidate today saying that about blacks or women. It'd be curtains for their campaign.
I looked up to see if he really said that. The only evidence he did was a 1987 press conference, and only one person (Robert Sherman publisher of
American Atheist magazine) can be found using the quote. It was not reported to any major news sources at all during the time.
So overall it's really questionable if he ever said that. Lies always spread faster than truth.