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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.

Barbara Bush

Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
BARBARA BUSH

Changed Good People Things
You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Done Listening Married
Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Nancy People Perfectionist
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
I don’t like attacking.
BARBARA BUSH

Action Attacking Like Plan
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 BUSH

Interesting Political Trying
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Love Marriage
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
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Likes Losing
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.’
BARBARA BUSH

Discipline Shapes Writing
Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
BARBARA BUSH

Believe Ideas Time
You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Helping Overseas Someone Trying
Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
BARBARA BUSH

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

House Missing White
I’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
BARBARA BUSH

Firsts Important Years
You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
BARBARA BUSH

Die Sister Six Tell Years

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