And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
BARBARA BUSHAnd so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
BARBARA BUSHI’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.
BARBARA BUSHWhether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
BARBARA BUSHYou get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
BARBARA BUSH. . . 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.
BARBARA BUSHI really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
BARBARA BUSHI love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
BARBARA BUSHI’m tired now of the elections.
BARBARA BUSHIf 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.
BARBARA BUSHI’m taking a vow not to advise.
BARBARA BUSHNancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
BARBARA BUSHI’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
BARBARA BUSHThe 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.
BARBARA BUSHI 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.
BARBARA BUSHI hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSHI’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.
BARBARA BUSH