Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
BARBARA BUSHTo us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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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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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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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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I don’t like attacking.
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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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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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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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