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 BUSHYou have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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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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I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
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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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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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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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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
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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’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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