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.
BARBARA BUSHYou get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.
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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 hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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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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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
BARBARA BUSH