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?
BARBARA BUSHMy son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
More Barbara Bush Quotes
-
-
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.
BARBARA BUSH -
If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
BARBARA BUSH -
Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSH -
You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
BARBARA BUSH -
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
BARBARA BUSH -
Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
BARBARA BUSH -
People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
BARBARA BUSH -
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
BARBARA BUSH -
I’m taking a vow not to advise.
BARBARA BUSH -
You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
BARBARA BUSH -
I don’t like attacking.
BARBARA BUSH -
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 -
My worst expectations never happened.
BARBARA BUSH -
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
BARBARA BUSH -
Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
BARBARA BUSH