Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
BARBARA BUSHYou get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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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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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 think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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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 not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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