The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
BARBARA BUSHYou have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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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 not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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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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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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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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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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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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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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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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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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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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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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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