Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSHThe First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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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’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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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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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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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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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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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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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