Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
BARBARA BUSHYou try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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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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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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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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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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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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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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