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Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

Barbara Bush

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.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Loss Thinking
I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
BARBARA BUSH

Abortion Outspoken Pro
I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Healthy Thinking
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 BUSH

Blue Mind Waste
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
BARBARA BUSH

Political Powerful Thinking
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Basketball Dull Weakness
And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
BARBARA BUSH

Anarchy Arena People
You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
BARBARA BUSH

Half Mother President
Raising George Walker was not easy.
BARBARA BUSH

Easy Raise Walker
I’m tired now of the elections.
BARBARA BUSH

Election Tired
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Mean People Rights
I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
BARBARA BUSH

Airplane Anything Jump Know
. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
BARBARA BUSH

America Important Learning
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Likes Losing
I’m taking a vow not to advise.
BARBARA BUSH

Advise Take Vow
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
BARBARA BUSH

Abortion Choices Hate

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