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Barbara Bush

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.
BARBARA BUSH

Blue Mind Waste
It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
BARBARA BUSH

Clean Dumb Family Guess
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
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Home Veterans Day Work
Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
BARBARA BUSH

Knows Likes Ugly
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Generosity Giving Memorable
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Mom Mother
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Basketball Dull Weakness
I’m taking a vow not to advise.
BARBARA BUSH

Advise Take Vow
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
BARBARA BUSH

Bad Boys Right Son
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
BARBARA BUSH

Parent People Women
I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSH

Dirty Hate Naughty
People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
BARBARA BUSH

Hair People Worry
I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
BARBARA BUSH

House Missing White
I think the country has had enough Bushes.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Politics Thinking
I’m tired now of the elections.
BARBARA BUSH

Election Tired

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