Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
BARBARA BUSHI’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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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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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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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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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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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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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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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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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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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