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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

Barbara 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 BUSH

Children Loss Thinking
You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Helping Overseas Someone Trying
Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Nancy People Perfectionist
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
BARBARA BUSH

Building Family Friends Important
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
BARBARA BUSH

Abortion Choices Hate
You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
BARBARA BUSH

Die Sister Six Tell Years
Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSH

Advice Care Wife
Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
BARBARA BUSH

Blood Inspirational Money
People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
BARBARA BUSH

Hair People Worry
I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
BARBARA BUSH

Justice Nice Thinking
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
BARBARA BUSH

Dream Race Society
You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
BARBARA BUSH

Half Mother President
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Likes Losing
I’m taking a vow not to advise.
BARBARA BUSH

Advise Take Vow
Raising George Walker was not easy.
BARBARA BUSH

Easy Raise Walker
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
BARBARA BUSH

Controversial Cost Government

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