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.
BARBARA BUSHBias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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 think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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.
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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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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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