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.
BARBARA BUSHI married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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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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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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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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
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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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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 may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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