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.
BARBARA BUSHI’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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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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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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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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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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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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