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.
BARBARA BUSHI do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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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’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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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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 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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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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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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