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?
BARBARA BUSHI’m a little old-fashioned.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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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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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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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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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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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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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 don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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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 worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
BARBARA BUSH