I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
BARBARA BUSHI may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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 personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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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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Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
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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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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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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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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
BARBARA BUSH