I’m a little old-fashioned.
BARBARA BUSHYou get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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 can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
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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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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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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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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSH







