I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
BARBARA BUSHWhatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I don’t like attacking.
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You can’t tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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I’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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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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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 worst expectations never happened.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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