If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
BARBARA BUSHTo us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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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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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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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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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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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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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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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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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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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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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