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.
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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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you’re doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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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 hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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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 think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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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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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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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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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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