Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
BARBARA BUSHThere are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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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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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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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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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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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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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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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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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 think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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