I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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 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.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I don’t like attacking.
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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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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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I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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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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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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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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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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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