I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
BARBARA BUSHGeorge is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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.
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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 love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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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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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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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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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.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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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