It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
BARBARA BUSHIt was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
BARBARA BUSHNobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
BARBARA BUSHI’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
BARBARA BUSHYou have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
BARBARA BUSHNobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
BARBARA BUSHI mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
BARBARA BUSHNever 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 BUSHGeorge is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
BARBARA BUSHEverything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
BARBARA BUSHI’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
BARBARA BUSHI may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
BARBARA BUSHI mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
BARBARA BUSHSome people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
BARBARA BUSHTo 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 BUSHThe 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.
BARBARA BUSHIf more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
BARBARA BUSH