I don’t like attacking.
BARBARA BUSHI’m a little old-fashioned.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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The 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.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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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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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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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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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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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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If 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.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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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 do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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