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.
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’m not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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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?
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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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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
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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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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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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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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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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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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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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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