Barbara Bush on race
Barbara Bush87 quotes“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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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.
Barbara BushBarbara 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 BushBarbara Bush 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.
Barbara BushBarbara Bush 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.
Barbara BushBarbara Bush People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
Barbara BushBarbara Bush I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
Barbara BushBarbara Bush Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
Barbara BushBarbara Bush Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
Barbara BushBarbara Bush My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
Barbara BushBarbara Bush One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
Barbara BushBarbara Bush 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.
Barbara BushBarbara Bush George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
Barbara BushBarbara Bush Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
Barbara BushBarbara Bush You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
Barbara BushBarbara Bush I’m taking a vow not to advise.
Barbara BushBarbara Bush 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.
Barbara BushBarbara Bush
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Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.
Ida TarbellIda Tarbell Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
MitskiMitski My attitude is govern as if you’ve run your last race. That’s not to say I’ve run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
Rahm EmanuelRahm Emanuel The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Critical race theory is racist. It does nothing to bring us together.
Marjorie Taylor GreeneMarjorie Taylor Greene To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
Gore VidalGore Vidal
