I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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 mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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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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As if we don’t have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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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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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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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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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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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
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I don’t like attacking.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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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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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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