And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
BARBARA BUSHAnd who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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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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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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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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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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’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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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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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