I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
BARBARA BUSHI’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
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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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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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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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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’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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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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’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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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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