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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.

Barbara Bush

I’m taking a vow not to advise.
BARBARA BUSH

Advise Take Vow
The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
BARBARA BUSH

Doe First Matter
Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
BARBARA BUSH

Knows Likes Ugly
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
BARBARA BUSH

Generosity Giving Memorable
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Inspirational Life Meaningful
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Home Veterans Day Work
My worst expectations never happened.
BARBARA BUSH

Expectations Happened Worst
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.’
BARBARA BUSH

Discipline Shapes Writing
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.
BARBARA BUSH

Congratulations Success Teaching
. . . 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.
BARBARA BUSH

America Important Learning
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
BARBARA BUSH

Controversial Cost Government
I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
BARBARA BUSH

Abortion Outspoken Pro
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
BARBARA BUSH

Abortion Choices Hate
You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Done Listening Married
And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
BARBARA BUSH

Inspirational White Women
I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
BARBARA BUSH

House Missing White

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