Raising George Walker was not easy.
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 mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
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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’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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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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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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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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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