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 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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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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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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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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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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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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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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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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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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 really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
BARBARA BUSH