I’m tired now of the elections.
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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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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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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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 decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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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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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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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.
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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?
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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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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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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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