Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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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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I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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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’m tired now of the elections.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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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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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
BARBARA BUSH