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.
BARBARA BUSHI’m tired now of the elections.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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My worst expectations never happened.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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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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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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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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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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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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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I’m tired now of the elections.
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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
BARBARA BUSH