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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.

Barbara Bush

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

Abortion Choices Hate
The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Dirty Family
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
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

Discipline Shapes Writing
I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
BARBARA BUSH

Abortion Outspoken Pro
The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
BARBARA BUSH

Conventions Opinion Platform
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Likes Losing
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Interesting Political Trying
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Love Marriage
You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Done Listening Married
You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
BARBARA BUSH

Die Sister Six Tell Years
It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
BARBARA BUSH

Car Pool Track
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
And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
BARBARA BUSH

Anarchy Arena People
I’m taking a vow not to advise.
BARBARA BUSH

Advise Take Vow
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Congratulations Success Teaching

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