Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
BARBARA BUSHBias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
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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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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 may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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 the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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