I’m a little old-fashioned.
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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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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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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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. . . 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.
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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 hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
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