I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSHThe personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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 do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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I don’t like attacking.
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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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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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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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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 winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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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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. . . 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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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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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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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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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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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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.
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