I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
BARBARA BUSHRaising five boys is a handful, trust me.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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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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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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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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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 have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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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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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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.
BARBARA BUSH