I don’t like attacking.
BARBARA BUSHI really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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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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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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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’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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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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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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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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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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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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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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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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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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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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