Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
BARBARA BUSHThe First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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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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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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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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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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 think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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I don’t like attacking.
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