Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
BARBARA BUSHThe 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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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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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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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.
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Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
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I don’t like attacking.
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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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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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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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