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 BUSHI’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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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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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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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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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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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 a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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