My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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I don’t like attacking.
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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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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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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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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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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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 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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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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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 really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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