Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
BARBARA BUSHI do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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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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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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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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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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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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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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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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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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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 think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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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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