I’m tired now of the elections.
BARBARA BUSHThe 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.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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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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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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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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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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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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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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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
BARBARA BUSH