The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
BARBARA BUSHIf more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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.’
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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.
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I don’t like attacking.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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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.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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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 married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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