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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?

Barbara Bush

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Nancy People Perfectionist
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
BARBARA BUSH

Parent People Women
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 BUSH

Family House White
I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
BARBARA BUSH

House Missing White
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Good Judgement Luck People
Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
BARBARA BUSH

Knows Likes Ugly
If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
BARBARA BUSH

President Thinking Wife
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
BARBARA BUSH

Inspirational Life Meaningful
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Likes Losing
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
BARBARA BUSH

Abortion Choices Hate
I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
BARBARA BUSH

Abortion Outspoken Pro
Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
BARBARA BUSH

Believe Ideas Time
You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Done Listening Married
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
BARBARA BUSH

Family Important Thinking
You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Helping Overseas Someone Trying
I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
BARBARA BUSH

Complicated Country Mean

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