I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
BARBARA BUSHFuture of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I don’t like attacking.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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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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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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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 hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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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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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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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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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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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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