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 BUSHValue your friendship. Value your relationships.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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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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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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 five boys is a handful, trust me.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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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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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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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.
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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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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.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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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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As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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