Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
BARBARA BUSHI’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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 don’t like attacking.
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Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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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.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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And 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!
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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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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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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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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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 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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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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