I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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. . . 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.
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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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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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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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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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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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!
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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