Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
BARBARA BUSHI hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun.
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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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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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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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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’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I’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.
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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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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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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I’m tired now of the elections.
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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.
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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