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.
BARBARA BUSHI really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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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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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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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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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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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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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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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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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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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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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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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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