I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
BARBARA BUSHCherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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