Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
BARBARA BUSH
I’m taking a vow not to advise.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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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.
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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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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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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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I’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
BARBARA BUSH