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 BUSHSuddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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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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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 know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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.
BARBARA BUSH